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Chainsaw · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:25 am Post subject:

I found it, i only now noticed it's called "parseerr" and not "parseerror".

Here's what is says:

Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:19 am Post subject:

BumpTarget is not a script function. If you want your hog to move towards the enemy when he is attacked, it should look something like this:

bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Here are a couple of suggestions

---- suggestion 1

I grabbed this from Brom's code. It is in the IfTimedOut section. This makes sure that he is closer than (in this case 200 units, which is about 1.5 tiles) from the target before he actually starts swinging.

Maxaxle · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject:

That would make sense, but have you ever heard of hogs having tusks? Shocked

Ouch.
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Zefz · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

Grub bugs have to do damage trough bumping. They have no attack animation (And thus cannot use latches which means no damage).

bgbirdsey · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject:

I think that the velocity corrections may not be important, since that AI timeout is so relatively short (1 or 2 frames...) Even after the frame rate is stabilized, I think that the AI timeout should be quite a bit longer, like 4 per second, or so.

This is quite consistent with what will be possible on network play (peer-to-peer or client/server, though LAN could be a lot faster). It would be good to make sure the scripts are either "frame-rate-independent" or can work well with longer times between timeouts.

I think I am becoming a big fan of using character stats to drive the AI speed, as well. Idea

We will have to make sure that handling game events (i.e. commands like IfBumped) do not have any "thinking" attached to them, and all the thinking is done in IfTimedOut. That way, stupid NPCs would be sluggish while smart NPCs would make decisions faster.

Though acting on instinct is pretty fast, too...

Maxaxle · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:12 am Post subject:

Zefz · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:17 am Post subject:

I also use monsters stats more in their AI script.

Intelligent monsters pick the spellcaster/healer first.
Dexteritous monsters attack, move and react faster.
Wise monsters don't do stupid things so often.
Strong monsters... just hit harder Wink

Oh and I think that there is also a function something like TargetWaypoint.
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bgbirdsey · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

OK. I haven't payed hardly any attention to the scripting language. Spending all my time on source code Laughing

. Scripts are really important, though. Explains why arakon spent all that time converting the scripting system to lua for zippy.

I would really like to see egoboo go that way again, but without all the silly C-like extensions to lua. That made things waaaay to complicated and I spent a month trying to get their code compatible with c++ before giving up. Evil or Very Mad

But scripts and the good MD2 modeling really are the heart of this game.

Zefz · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

I find the current scripts quite easy and understandable. You only need one document with the list of all script functions to understand what's going on (aidocs.txt).
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Maxaxle · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

Such a documents exists???
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Agent of Dread · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

Yes. But I can't be bothered referencing to it every five seconds. Cool

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Zefz · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:27 am Post subject:

You can have it open and then run a search whenever you need it.
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Agent of Dread · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

I mean that I can't be bothered doing what you are saying. I'm a skin and stat kind of guy.
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Maxaxle · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

That's not very helpful right now, but I can help if it's really necessary.
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