{"id":302,"date":"2010-07-22T00:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2010-07-22T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:37:13","slug":"first-person-mode-in-alien-swarm-and-other-cool-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/first-person-mode-in-alien-swarm-and-other-cool-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"First Person Mode In Alien Swarm (And Other Cool Stuff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try this:<br \/>\n<code>alias FPS \"firstperson; asw_hide_marine 1; asw_controls 0\"<br \/>\nbind\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf \"v\"\"fps\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then use v to go first-person. I&#8217;ll let you all figure out the reversal to third person.<\/p>\n<p>Some other cool stuff: the tile generator and it&#8217;s interactions with Hammer. See the Valve developer wiki (<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.valvesoftware.com\/wiki\/Swarm_TileGen\">here<\/a>) Seriously cool stuff. Procedural level generation? Yes please! <\/p>\n<p>You can also enable the Director, although it has a tendency to kill you horribly by default (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2010\/07\/20\/verdict-alien-swarm\/#comments\">http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2010\/07\/20\/verdict-alien-swarm\/#comments<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually got an idea that I&#8217;ve been toying with that Alien Swarm&#8217;s tools make a helluva lot easier. Will fill in anyone who is interested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this: alias FPS &#8220;firstperson; asw_hide_marine 1; asw_controls 0&#8221; bind\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf &#8220;v&#8221;&#8221;fps&#8221; Then use v to go first-person. I&#8217;ll let you all figure out the reversal to third person. Some other cool stuff: the tile generator and it&#8217;s interactions with Hammer. See the Valve developer wiki (here) Seriously cool stuff. Procedural level generation? Yes please! You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/first-person-mode-in-alien-swarm-and-other-cool-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Person Mode In Alien Swarm (And Other Cool Stuff)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[144,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hogclan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}