spawning in NPCs in half-life

this guide will help anybody that needs help regarding spawning in npcs within half life or half life source.

Required things before starting

Make sure you have sv_cheats enabled. You can do this by pressing ` or ~ on your keyboard then typing in sv_cheats_1 in the console. If the console does not show up go to your settings and then enable the console.

How to spawn in NPCS

Now, after turning on sv_cheats, you must then go back to the console and type in: give (then the NPC name you want to spawn in) for example, to spawn a Human Grunt, type in give monster_human_grunt. The names of npcs that you can spawn in that I am aware of are:

(PS. remember to noclip while spawning npcs as they will spawn inside of you.)

monster_human_grunt
monster_alien_slave
monster_scientist
monster_barney
monster_headcrab
monster_zombie
monster_alien_grunt
monster_houndeye

Other "helpful" commands

While spawning in npcs, for hostile ones to not shoot at you, type in notarget into the console. Remember to noclip while spawning in NPCs.

[goofy15]

you can also do give monster_tentacle and give monster_gargantua

[Spoon]

i needed this because i softlocked myself because i accidentally killed the guard in the level where he gives you a ton of items

[[R&L]Daniel_Laixer]

@ crazy11111 YES! Same issue here. The NPCs that I spawn are surrounded by yellow floating dots.

[Cold Cash Money Kid]

this dosen't work and i have SV_Cheats on

[soup_in_space]

*after don't I meant to have know sorry*

[soup_in_space]

@crazy11111 I don't but it seemed like when I was up high and near a wall the fire flies would stop appearing most of the time.

[Jerryblithe]

does anyone know on why there are fire flies flying around the npc i spawn????

[GameWorldReality]

@DaBerkeley
Usually it will work. you just have to reload a quick save when you first attempt the command. since its having to cache the model and thus reload the level. or atleast this works for me.

[Damian_D]

In order to successfully spawn an NPC you have to fulfill several things once you launch the game:
1. You must go through at least 1 loading screen
2. That NPC must exist in that map of the game(you can't spawn a Barney in xen I believe or HECU in the first level without Impulse 76"

So you CAN bind the command but either nothing will happen or it will crash the game if you don't fulfill the numbers 1-2. Most of the time, I do notarget and noclip(because it spawns the npc inside of you most of the time).

[batmanseth5]

it crashes my freaking game