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NPC Resource Gathering System Upgrade

In this presentation, Ted Merchant discusses the enhancements made to the NPC resource gathering system, including movement, resource counting, interface control, priority system, and limiting system, with a focus on code improvements and new features. Find out what has been accomplished, what's left to be done, and the detailed progress of the project. Future plans include resource models, improved user interface, Gatherer reassignment, point-and-click functionality, resource display, and animations.

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NPC Resource Gathering System Upgrade

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  1. Ted Merchant’s Final Presentation

  2. What I wanted to get done: • Write the special function that will cause the NPC to move to the resources and than back to the base. • - Place temp resources (probably vending machines) into the map. • - Change the resource counting function to be iterated only when the special NPC returns to the base with the resources it has gathered. • - Change the interface so that the played can control where the special NPC’s will gather resources. • - Create a priority system for the resources since there are 3 types. • - Create a limiting system that will limit the amount of resources at one location

  3. What I Got Done • Write the special function that will cause the NPC to move to the resources and than back to the base. • - Place temp resources (probably vending machines) into the map. • - Change the resource counting function to be iterated only when the special NPC returns to the base with the resources it has gathered. • - Change the interface so that the played can control where the special NPC’s will gather resources. • - Create a priority system for the resources since there are 3 types. • - Create a limiting system that will limit the amount of resources at one location

  4. How? • Almost all of what I did was in code. • Mainly I created a new type of NPC very closely related to the npc_citizen17 class. • I changed it’s idle behavior by creating new schedules and task which control what the NPC’s do. • I used the global entity list in order to allow the NPC’s to find and target the different resources. • I also removed a lot of code that handled special citizen types and situations.

  5. How cont. • I created a new class for storing and forming calculations on the resources. • This class used arrays to store the amount of each resource. • It also calculated the average time it took to gather each resource and used that information to assign newly spawned Gatherers.

  6. How cont. • I created three new model enities and added them to the map. • Used the model entity code from the Valve Wiki. • Basically used as a way to connect object on the map to objects in the code.

  7. What’s Left to be Done? • There are a lot of things that I wanted to get to that I did. • Create models for each resource instead of stand in models used now. • Have a better user interface. Right now priorities are hard coded in. It would be nice to have some way to allow the user to change these priorities. • Have constant Gatherer reassignment. Gatherers are assigned what resource to gather when spawned. It would be nice if this could be reassigned during the game. • Give the user the ability to point and click the gathers to collect certain resources. • Have a display and use for all three resources. • Give the Gathers better animations instead of just standing next to resource.

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