Hi,

I wanted to know if it was possible to script these behaviors and what would be the best approach. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Behaviors:
NPC's come and go into a restaurant; money is spent once they're served. Display money spent and a image.
NPC's don't spend money when they're not served.
NPC's spend more money when player's table is upgraded.

So I've taken a look at scripting guides but I feel like I'll learn better by just asking. I don't need anyone to write it for me but help me think this out. Thanks

There will meed custom animations for the npc as those animations are not stock.

You will need to script these behaviors to call the animations you have made for the npc,s

Not impossible, but a lot of work across a few fields of game making.

Yeah, I'm working on that now. However, I'm in the planning the stages the script, and how it's going to work.

So let's imagine I have the animation.

An NPC walks in a zone, upon entering that zone if a plate of food is served then plr_money ="random_amount" and that get's displayed on screen somewhere.

I'm not sure how this would work even if I did call the animation, any ideas?


-- NPC receives plate money added to player


function plateserved_init(e)

end



function plateserved_main(e)

If NPC detects table and plate then add "$50" to player;

PlaySound

If NPC doesn't detect plate and table then exit area.


Destroy(e);

end

end

Yep it's quite simple once you understand the basics.
You just need some waypoint code and then some variables to act as toggles between States and to check the different conditions (i.e. food is there, quality of food etc).

So something like this
If state = enter
Waypoint code to walk inside.
Check near to counter or seat etc.
Give order info on screen.
Change state to waiting to be served.
ElseIf state = waiting
If order is ready
give player money.
Change state to leaving.
If waited too long
Change state to leaving.
ElseIf state = leaving
Remove order from game so can't be reused for other ai (displayed request and any actual game object used to show order ).
If reached end of waypoints then delete this AI.

As you can see, just break your scripts down to logical states or conditions and it will make it much easier to control what is happening and when.

You'll want other scripts to manage stuff like table/food quality and if an order is ready or not... But that's the good thing about object oriented programming, it's super easy to make many scripts that relate to only certain objects.