Squad-Based Gameplay

"await commands"

not "await for commands"

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Originally Posted by Con

How do they know which direction is advance or retreat?

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He probably toggles the ai_follow_player command on an off via flashlight. They'll just follow the player into the designated squads and work in those.

What I mean is if you tell the AI to advance incrementally in front of the player then how do they know where that is?

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I guess he has a bunch of squads set up sequentially and the script says for each one: "if you're told to move forward, advance to the next squad in the sequence."

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Originally Posted by Heathen

"await commands"

not "await for commands"

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Yeah I know. :P Was too lazy to fix that.

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Originally Posted by Con

What I mean is if you tell the AI to advance incrementally in front of the player then how do they know where that is?

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I guess he has a bunch of squads set up sequentially and the script says for each one: "if you're told to move forward, advance to the next squad in the sequence."

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Basically. I can set up a method to get the ai to move ahead of the player but currently the method I have for ai advancing is by telling where the ai are and moving them ahead. I guess they don't move ahead of the player per se but rather they themselves move ahead incrementally. Requires a fairly... linear gameplay at the moment as I don't know how much script space I can use up.

Most of the lines of script, are not even continuous, for efficiency. There's only 3 continuous scripts.

Here's a link to my vid for those who missed it- http://www.xfire.com/video/1bebaa/

Hmm nice work. What happens if you kill the AI so much, they start attacking you. Will they still follow you after that?

"Master Chief is out of control! We have to stop hi---yes, Master Chief! We do as you say!"

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Originally Posted by Limited

Hmm nice work. What happens if you kill the AI so much, they start attacking you. Will they still follow you after that?

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Uh Yeah... i'm pretty sure there isn't a way to check on that in script. If so, I would make them invincible and hunt you down or something.

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Originally Posted by Dwood

Uh Yeah... i'm pretty sure there isn't a way to check on that in script. If so, I would make them invincible and hunt you down or something.

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Cant you just have a room full of AI, you kill them all, then later in level you have this squad based thing and see what happens.

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Originally Posted by Limited

Cant you just have a room full of AI, you kill them all, then later in level you have this squad based thing and see what happens.

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Yeah but atm my sapien is crashing any time I try to manipulate the tags. everything you see done right now was set up prior to one of the tags getting corrupted. :smith: I have no idea what's causing the problem right now so :v:

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Originally Posted by Dwood

Everything you see done right now was set up prior to one of the tags getting corrupted. :smith: I have no idea what's causing the problem right now so :v:

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That's exactly whats happening with my Phantom tags. I changed one thing in them, and Halo exceptions when the vehicle loads.

Now, the peculiar thing is that if I load the tag in Sapien, it works perfectly fine. No problems, no crashes, it just works.

Only when it is loaded in Halo (the actual executable) it exceptions when the phantom gets loaded.

I cannot figure out what tag is causing this. It makes me sad :(