Create a spawner, give him key/value
"script_patroller" "1"
without quotation marks of course.
Make a loop out of path nodes. Select first node, press N, and tick NOT_CHAIN box. Then connect spawner with that node, that node with next and so on. Last node connect with first node and you have a looping patroller.

In your gsc add this line at the top

#include maps\_patrol;

In your anim file put

        level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_walk" ]			= %patrol_bored_patrolwalk;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_walk_twitch" ]		= %patrol_bored_patrolwalk_twitch;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_stop" ]			= %patrol_bored_walk_2_bored;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_start" ]			= %patrol_bored_2_walk;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_turn180" ]			= %patrol_bored_2_walk_180turn;
	
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_1" ]			= %patrol_bored_idle;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_2" ]			= %patrol_bored_idle_smoke;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_3" ]			= %patrol_bored_idle_cellphone;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_4" ]			= %patrol_bored_twitch_bug;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_5" ]			= %patrol_bored_twitch_checkphone;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_6" ]			= %patrol_bored_twitch_stretch;
	
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_smoke" ]		= %patrol_bored_idle_smoke;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_checkphone" ]	= %patrol_bored_twitch_checkphone;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_stretch" ]	= %patrol_bored_twitch_stretch;
	level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ "patrol_idle_phone" ]		= %patrol_bored_idle_cellphone;

edited on Jul. 22, 2013 10:56 am by 3st0nian

Awesome, thanks!

Does adding that K/V assign those anims to the AI that comes out of the spawner?

What does NOT_CHAIN do?

golgo13 writes...
Basically yes.


Dont know exactly, but without it you cant make a loop out of nodes, as game will give an error.

Thanks for all of the help, I really appreciate it.

I look forward to getting this working tonight.

This was the last major piece of heavy lifting I needed to get my map finished before I start a lighting and polish pass on it.

Anyone have any decent script for getting AI to go to the last known player position after a weapon is fired by the player?

Basically going to a radius around the last location the player fired their weapon?

So I tried this, but I'm getting this error:

******* script runtime error *******
undefined is not an array, string, or vector: (file 'maps/_utility.gsc', line 6328)
assertEx( isdefined( level.scr_anim[ "generic" ][ anime ] ), "Tried to set generic run anim but the anim was not defined in the maps _anim file" );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_patrol.gsc', line 56)
self set_generic_run_anim( walkanim, true );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 1189)
self thread maps\_patrol::patrol();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 800)
spawn_think_action( targetname );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'common_scripts/utility.gsc', line 586)
entities[ keys[ i ] ] thread [[ process ]]();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 120)
array_thread( ai, ::spawn_think );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_load.gsc', line 452)
maps\_spawner::main();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/noah_test.gsc', line 76)
maps\_load::main();
*
Error: started from:
(file 'maps/noah_test.gsc', line 8)
main()

Actually, I got it to work by reversing the order in which they load:

maps\my_map_anim::main();
maps\_load::main();

Now I'm seeing this:

Error: AI 740's goal node at (-3927, -5000, 475) does not have any path links

Turned out I had path nodes overlapping.

Has anyone ever seen this error?

******* script runtime error *******
RandomInt parm must be positive integer.
: (file 'maps/_utility.gsc', line 1994)
return array [ randomint( array.size ) ];
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_patrol.gsc', line 88)
currentgoal = random( nodes );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 1189)
self thread maps\_patrol::patrol();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 800)
spawn_think_action( targetname );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'common_scripts/utility.gsc', line 586)
entities[ keys[ i ] ] thread [[ process ]]();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_spawner.gsc', line 120)
array_thread( ai, ::spawn_think );
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/_load.gsc', line 452)
maps\_spawner::main();
*
Error: called from:
(file 'maps/noah_test.gsc', line 77)
maps\_load::main();
*
Error: started from:
(file 'maps/my_map.gsc', line 8)
main()
*