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Kill Me!

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Posted: 18th May 2006 22:03

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Has anyone came up with a script which makes a NPC follow the player yet? i am trying to make it so that your team of men follow you and shoot any enemies you find.
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Posted: 18th May 2006 22:15

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This will make a character follow you:

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;Artificial Intelligence Script

;Header

desc          = Follow Me

;Triggers

:nearactivatable=0:settarget,activatetarget=2
:losetarget=50:freeze,runfpidefault=1
:plralive=0:freeze,runfpidefault=1

:state=0,plrdistfurther=100:state=1
:state=0,plrdistwithin=101:state=2,animate=1
:state=1,plrelevfurther=10,plrcanbeseen=46,plringunsight:freeze,settarget,animate=1,state=0
:state=1:followplr=1,animate=5
:state=1:state=0

:state=2:rotatetoplr,resethead
:state=2:freeze,state=0

:state=4:incframe=6
:state=4,frameatend=6:state=0

:state=5,random=1:state=6,setframe=4
:state=5:state=7,setframe=3
:state=6:incframe=4,strafe=90,rotatetoplr
:state=6,frameatend=4:state=1,animate=1
:state=7:incframe=3,strafe=-90,rotatetoplr
:state=7,frameatend=3:state=1,animate=1

;End of Script

As for a team of men following you, I think 2 or possibly 3 is all that will work using the same script. The other issue is, if they have weapons, they will probably shoot you.

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Posted: 18th May 2006 22:19

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i think thats the allied script people have been going on about, has anyone actually made one yet??

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Posted: 18th May 2006 22:40

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At this point you can't have an allied script. Enemies just can't hurt other enemies intentionally. Wait till V2 to see if such features are available.

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Posted: 19th May 2006 18:38

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would it be possible to start a character from scratch and make it available for being on you team?

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Posted: 19th May 2006 18:56

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Team or group communications are not supproted by the FPSC engine so you cannot have such between either friendly characters or enemies.

Currently I am unaware of any trick or workaround that can simuate such behaviour effectively.

I dont believe that it is possible.

Each enemy can only target the player by default - not other enemies or targets and any character which follows the player cannot support him in target fire directly at enemies or targets.

Shooting by enemies is targeted at the player only - shooting by enemies scripted to follow the player with the appearance of being a player supporter in any shooting scenario - can only be randomly controlled and currently it seems not precisley enough to warrant being called an ally. Hitting an enemy would be somewhat random and very infrequent.

There are too other issues which make a real ally extremely difficult to achieve and near to impossible.

I dont know how it can be made more clear than that.

If I find a solution I will let you know as I trust any other user that finds one would do so also.