I'm thinking about putting together some comprehensive scripts for custom control of characters and was curious how many people would think this would be a good script pack to get from the store? This could be used on your own custom characters, old classic characters (such as the fantasy creature pack), or on standard characters, but with custom behaviors. You'd be able to make them friendlies or enemies, to follow you around, or even fight each other. I did some of this functionality in Rescue the Princess, but this would be much more advanced and closer to a plug-n-play system.

Sold! (This additional text is simply because the forum will reject short posts, as it did on my first try!)

I also would be interested in a script pack.

definitely a needed and requested script, go for it

go go go

Yes, why no ?, perhaps the player could marry Aiko.
Now seriously, I also want that package.

3com

+1
sold

sounds like a good idea to me

cheers henry

It looks like this is definitely something people want. I've started working out the details of my custom character class. At its root, it will work across the board for all types of characters from stock to classic to custom. Stock characters are the biggest challenge, but I'm hoping things will fall into place and they will work out as well as the other kinds.

At some point I'm going to need some character modelers out there to work with me to test and help me improve these scripts. I want to make sure they are going to work across the board in a generic manner.

@tomjscott will this work with 3rd party characters who have the animation list like as we are in desperate need for a script where we can insert our own frame list

PistolReloadStandingStill,765,834
PistolReloadTwoHands,835,903
PistolRightFootkick,90

My idea is to have the ability to specify various types of animations as well as their frames and playback speed. Certain of these could then be used for automated control and others for more custom control. For example, you might have a function to load a list of animations from a file that might look as follows:

animIdle, "Idle 1", 0, 30, 100
animIdle, "Idle 2:, 31, 60, 100
animAttack, "Punch", 61, 100, 100
animAttack,"Kick", 101,150, 100
animAttack, "SloMo Kick", 101, 150, 50

Then you might do something like SetState(animIdle) and it would randomly choose between the possible idles or even cycle through them randomly. Same for attacks or walking, running, or whatever else you might have multiple possibilities for. You could also just specify them manually as well.

As an alternative to loading these from a file, you might be able to just add them one at a time in script as follows:

This sound good and i would be more than happy to pay for it!

There's still a lot of design work to be done before I'll start diving into the meat of the code, but I'll be asking for input from the community during this process so that I can cover all the bases possible.

Quick update. I am starting to create a new demo game that is going to be a showcase of FPSC-R and tech demo for Omega Core and my new A.I. scripts. Because of the nature of this demo, I need custom A.I. for all the characters and so I plan to start coding this tonight and through the weekend. As soon as I have anything substantial to show, I'll be starting a WIP thread for the project. Stay tuned for progress.

cant wait...

I actually did get this going over the past few days. Just started the custom A.I. last night. There are some challenges that might not solvable with the current engine, but I'll do as much as I can now and report any issues to TGC that might be fixable for the future.