Graal Forums - Artificial Intellegence!

Well now that Ive finished my systems and debugged them Ive moved onto npcs that will actually do some thinking instead of randomly running around and killing things. Well Ive got a simple guard who has a 10 tile field of vision, all of it works except when he resets after going after someone who has a low alignment rating (its a string on the player created by my system not the regular graal AP) After he gets done chasing someone he should go back to his idle mode, which he does. Problem is once thats done he wont return to attack mode if he needs to attack someone again. Heres the script, tiny bit messy I have yet to refine it. Lets see if any of you can understand why he doesnt reset. :confused: Thanks -

NOTE: He doesnt have any customized appearance yet, this shouldnt cause a problem. (being scripted to be made into a class summoned by putnpc2)!

NPC Code:



// NPC made by Aeglos

if (created){

  setstring this.hp,100;

  setstring this.damHP,10;

  setstring this.damBP,5;

  setstring this.damEP,5;

  setstring this.speed,0.3;

  setstring this.walk,walk;

  setstring this.attack,sword;

  setstring this.idle,idle;

  //

setstring this.mode,0;

  showcharacter;

}

function reset(){

setstring this.mode,0;

}

//Checking Target Alignment

if (actioncheck){

setstring this.target,#p(0);

check();

}

if (actionalign){

setstring this.align,#p(0);

check2();

}

function check(){

with(getplayer(#s(this.target))){

  triggeraction x+1,y+1,align,#s(client.align);

}

}

function check2(){

if (strtofloat(#s(this.align))=>50){message Goodday fine citizen!;}

else if (strtofloat(#s(this.align))<50){setstring this.target2,#s(this.target);message HALT!;setstring this.mode,1;}

}

//Guard Mode

if (strequals(#s(this.mode),0)){

  setcharani #s(this.idle),;

  if (this.b=<50){this.b++}

  else if (this.b>50){changecomment();}

  if (this.a=<100){this.a++}

  else if (this.a>100){changedir();}

}

//Following

else if (strequals(#s(this.mode),1)){

  if (this.d=<200){this.d++}

  else if (this.d>200){reset();}

  with(getplayer(#s(this.target2))){

    this.newx=playerx;

    this.newy=playery;

if (playerhearts=0){reset();}

  }

  if (this.newy<y){y-=strtofloat(#s(this.speed));setcharani #s(this.walk),;getdir()}

  if (this.newx<x){x-=strtofloat(#s(this.speed));setcharani #s(this.walk),;getdir()}

  if (this.newy>y){y+=strtofloat(#s(this.speed));setcha  rani #s(this.walk),;getdir()}

  if (this.newx>x){x+=strtofloat(#s(this.speed));setcha  rani #s(this.walk),;getdir()}

if (x in |this.newx-1,this.newx+4| && y in |this.newy-1,this.newy+4|){

setcharani #s(this.attack),;

}

}

function getdir(){

  if (this.newy<y){dir=2;}

 else if (this.newx<x){dir=1;}

 else if (this.newy>y){dir=2;}

 else if (this.newx>x){dir=3;}

}

function changecomment(){

  this.b=0;

  this.c=int(random(0,12));

  if (this.c=1){message ::grumbles::;}

  if (this.c=2){message ::whistles::;}

  if (this.c=3){message ::dozes off:: HALT! oh..;}

  if (this.c=4){message Bleh... this job is boring;}

  if (this.c=5){message ::sighs::;}

  if (this.c=6){message ::yawns::;}

  if (this.c=7){message ::taps foot lightly::;}

  if (this.c=8){message Im tired...;}

  if (this.c=9){message If any criminals come my way Ill take care of them! ::laughs::;}

  if (this.c=10){message ;}

  if (this.c=11){message ::farts::;}

}

function changedir(){

  this.a=0;

  if (dir=0){dir=1}

  else if (dir=1){dir=2}

  else if (dir=2){dir=3}

  else if (dir=3){dir=0}

}

timeout=0.1;

//#CLIENTSIDE

//Vision Lines

if (dir=0){

  if (playerx in |x,x+2| && playery in |y-10,y|){

  triggeraction x+1,y+1,check,#a;

  }

}

if (dir=1){

  if (playerx in |x-10,x| && playery in |y,y+2|){

  triggeraction x+1,y+1,check,#a;



  }

}

if (dir=2){

  if (playerx in |x,x+2| && playery in |y,y+10|){

  triggeraction x+1,y+1,check,#a;



  }

}

if (dir=3){

  if (playerx in |x,x+10| && playery in |y,y+2|){

  triggeraction x+1,y+1,check,#a;

  }

}

timeout=0.05;