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Posted by bioweapon on Fri Oct 28th at 2:28am 2005

I've been trying to make a single player level and I would like to be able to move a fast zombie around. I can create the zombie, and I can make him move to the first scripted sequence just fine, but no matter what I try, I can't get him to move to the second one. He just stands in place and does nothing. I need to use scripted sequences because the option of how the NPC moves to the next scripted sequence will be really helpful later on. Can someone please explain to me how to get a zombie to move from its starting position, to a scripted sequence, and then to another one. It's not because the scripted sequence is out of the NPC's sight, because I even tried having the second one in its LOS and it still doesn't work. I'm getting really frustrated! I've searched the net and looked in tutorials and it seems like no one is having this problem! I've tried output and the next script option. Nothing is helping.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Fri Oct 28th at 2:51am 2005

1st obvious question: Is the second sequence being triggered?




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Posted by bioweapon on Fri Oct 28th at 2:57am 2005

Meh! What exactly do you mean? I tried triggering it with output. It doesn't seem to work.

Edits for the win! I've editted this post like 5 times already.

In my output for a1 (my first scripted sequence) I have "My output" as OnEndSequence, "Target entities..." as a2 (second scripted sequence), and "Via this input" set as BeginSequence. Is that correct? If it helps, my checked flags are Start on Spawn, Override AI, and Loop in Post Idle.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Fri Oct 28th at 3:26am 2005

I think I remember that doesnt work (the onendsequence output), try triggering it with a relay instead. BTW you can also have the zombie follow a ai_path_assult (or something along those lines), this is helpful if you want him to rush that position (this is incase you dont want the zombie to do a scriped movement)


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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Fri Oct 28th at 8:57pm 2005

Faceposer is also a program in the sdk. Try using path_corners if you just want them to walk from place to place.



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Posted by Madedog on Fri Oct 28th at 9:32pm 2005

Uh.. there is such thing as "next sequence"...



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Posted by bioweapon on Fri Oct 28th at 10:41pm 2005

Next sequence didn't work either for some reason and I really don't want to use path_corners. For one, the NPC will break out of the path to attack. Two, the NPC only walks. You can't change it to run or instantaneous (which I will need). I'll try to look into the choreo scene and I'll also look at sample maps. Thanks.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Oct 29th at 3:46am 2005

assault_rallypoint, thats the entity! It will make the npc move to assault_assaultpoint, this will make the npc assult that point, while attacking the player, nice thing about this is you can make "paths" out of them and the npc will follow it over obsticles and stuff.



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Posted by bioweapon on Sat Oct 29th at 4:32pm 2005

Okay. I must not have clarified this enough. I DO NOT want the NPC to attack the player. What I want is a sort of cut scene where they all move their pre-defined path. Now, I also want this map to have some horror-movie-like scenes. And some of those scenes require instantaneous movement from one location to another. As far as I can tell, I can't do that with path corners or assault points.

Thanks for trying to help, though. I guess I just can't make what I want to <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">




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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Sun Oct 30th at 12:05am 2005

Ok, now your talking about using faceposer.

Read the documentation that came with the sdk first. You should find a section thats all about faceposer. Once you have a scene built, place info_targets where you want them to walk to, or stop at. Place the names of the info_targets in the logic_coreoscene entity.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Sun Oct 30th at 9:50pm 2005

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Okay. I must not have clarified this enough. I DO NOT want the NPC to attack the player. What I want is a sort of cut scene where they all move their pre-defined path. Now, I also want this map to have some horror-movie-like scenes. And some of those scenes require instantaneous movement from one location to another. As far as I can tell, I can't do that with path corners or assault points.

Thanks for trying to help, though. I guess I just can't make what I want to

Okay I missed this, make an ai_relationship ent. Have it target the zombie, and set its disposition to "ignore, or like, or something that ISNT hate or fear" to the player. This will tell the zombie NOT to attack the player and go off of his set course.

Edit: the entity is called ai_relationship, set the subjects (aka the zombies) then the target (The player which you can use !player), then set the disposition to "Neutral".



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