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Is it possible to make an AI controlled recon droid?
For example,you place the recon droid then it flies arround the map and kills droids/clones etc. for you.
Is it possible?

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Oh god how Marth and I wish.

Hover vehicles, like recon droids, can't be AI controlled. It crashes the game. You can have AI controlled flyers, AI controlled walkers, but AI controlled hovers will cause a CTD.

You could try spawning an allied local unit next to you when you deploy a controllable? Though I don't know how similar you can make a unit class to a remote droid.

razac920 wrote:how similar you can make a unit class to a remote droid.

I tried that.

Once.

There's a whole host of issues.

What issues? That video seems to show functionality, albeit with weird camera effects, scary music, and ridiculous numbers.

Well #1 is that AI have a horrible time aiming at them. The AI clones would aim at what would be waist level on a normal sized unit, while the recon droid was 3x smaller than that.

Issue #2 is the AI recon droids don't use their jetpacks as automatically as I want, which I could circumvent entirely by simply modeling them in a way that makes them look like they're hovering, but this would ruin collision completely.

Both of those seem fixable, though:
1. Have you tried copying these lines from Yoda's ODF? I believe they tell the AI to aim low for short units.

2. I've found that spawning hover units in the air pretty much always gets them to deploy their jetpacks. Since you're spawning these locals next to a unit, simply spawn them above the unit (comfortably above, as it takes a few seconds for them to deploy the jetpack)

re:#1 that might explain it. I tried TargetPointOffset, nothing seemed to change. I'll have to try TargetPointOffsetStand/Crouch.

Ah, looking at ODF_Parameters, I see that TargetPointOffset is a property of "EntityGeometry" (is this buildings?), while TargetPointOffsetStand/Crouch is a property of "soldier".