Formations?

MileHighGuy · Post by **MileHighGuy** » Fri May 30, 2014 11:18 pm

Is it possible to make the ai go into formations via lua? Or at least travel in groups? For example, can I have clones follow the first clone commander they see? How complex can we go with this?

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Fri May 30, 2014 11:42 pm

You could possibly create a table with a for...while loop that compiles all of the currently-spawned Commander units and then create an AI goal that's set to defend or follow (defend is a loose follow, follow is a tight follow) the entity ptrs stored in that table. Or something like that. I'm not very familiar with tables, so I can't help you very much with it. However, I think the AI goal bit would probably be something along the lines of this:

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AddAIGoal(REP, "Defend", 80, [commandertable])

MileHighGuy · Post by **MileHighGuy** » Sat May 31, 2014 12:43 am

Are there any examples of this being used in the stock files? I will have to look up how to use tables in lua.

razac920 · Post by **razac920** » Sat May 31, 2014 6:13 am

AIGoals seems like a good idea. I don't know of any examples like this in the stock files, but here's how I would do it:

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players = {}

goals = {}

count = 0

addgoal = OnCharacterSpawn(function(player)

  if GetCharacterClass(player) == 4 and GetCharacterTeam(player) == REP then // replace 4 with the index of your commander, starting with 0

    local seen = false

    for i = 1,count do

      if players == player then

        seen = true

        goals = AddAIGoal(REP,"Defend",80,GetCharacterUnit(player)) // or "Follow" if you want them to follow very closely, and change the weight too

      end

    end

    if not seen then

      count = count + 1

      players[count] = player

      goals[count] = AddAIGoal(REP,"Defend",80,GetCharacterUnit(player)) // or "Follow" if you want them to follow very closely, and change the weight

    end

  end

end)

removegoal = OnCharacterDeath(function(player,killer)

  for j = 1,count do

    if players == player and not goals == nil then

      DeleteAIGoal(goals)

      goals = nil

    end

  end

end)

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Since there is a maximum of 20 AI Goals, make sure you don't have too many commanders on the map at the same time.

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Sat May 31, 2014 9:47 am

Looks great! The syntax for the defend/follow goal is AddAIGoal( team, "Defend", weight, gameObjectPtr ), though.

razac920 · Post by **razac920** » Sat May 31, 2014 9:52 am

Fixed, good catch!

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