I'm trying to create a COG where, upon shooting an armed ped, it switches from ai1 (pedroam.ai) to ai2 (something like stdefault.ai). However, whenever I shoot the actor, all he does is die.

# Jedi Knight Cog Script
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# 00_setactor.COG
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# When roaming, the enemy is pedroam.ai. When shot, it turns into ai2.
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# This Cog is Not supported by LucasArts Entertainment Co

symbols

message startup
message damaged
ai ai1=pedroam.ai
ai ai2
thing actor1


end

# ===================================================================

code

startup:
AiSetClass(actor1, ai1);
return;

damaged:
AiSetClass(actor1, ai2);
SetActorFlags(actor1, 0x8);
return;

# ........................................................................................

end

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[This message has been edited by Wolfy (edited November 11, 2001).]

Ok, 2 things to try. First, try increasing the amount of health the ped actually has. It could be that you kill the ped before it has a chance to fight back. Second try adding 'mask=0xfff' to 'thing actor1' in the symbols section.

Raynar


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Mmmm. An invulneral ped that shoots back. Mmm.

Perhaps if you used a weapon that wouldnt kill on the first shot. Like the fists?


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[This message has been edited by GBK (edited November 11, 2001).]

GBK - problem is, the player starts off with a stormtroop rifle.

Raynar - it's not that they don't have enough health - I shoot them, and they run away. It's like the COG doesn't even recognize the damaged: message.

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Hmm, you forgot to use 'Capturething()'.

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ai ai1=pedroam.ai
ai ai2

You havent defined ai2
I think you need to do something like:

ai ai2=2nd.ai

Or did you leave it out intentionally?

The mask=0xfff did the trick.

Yes, I did purposely omit ai2's definition, and I have no idea what CaptureThing() would do in this COG.

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Is this a level cog, or an actor cog?

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I think he assigns this actor cog through level editor.

Wolfy - CaptureThing captures the thing event, so it will start receiving "damaged", "killed" etc personal messages. I think it is same as mask=0xfff if I'm not wrong. It can do it on certain things within cog operations.

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Alrighty then. Is it possible to apply the damamged: message to a template. Say, so if a pedestrian template gets shot in the level, actors in the level will change to hostile AI, like police responding to a hostile action?

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Yeah, just as in darkjedi cogs, it uses CaptureThing(darkjedi) (if I'm not mistaken being sleepy after doing homework without a sleep...) at startup. Although it also has mask=0xfff (something like that) in the symbols. It may be that you need both. Sorry but not too certain.

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If you want to do it the easy way...


 

Startup:
For(I=0;I<=Getthingcount();I=I+1) {
Capturething(I); }
Stop;

Damaged:
If(Getthingtemplate(Getsenderref()) == Pedtype) {
AIsetclass(Policeman, Killer_AI); }
Stop;

 


Essentially, that will run through all the things in a level, and "capture" all those that have the 'Pedestrian' template. Then, when one of those peds is damaged, it changes the AI of the 'Policeman'.

The good thing about this is, you dont have to predefine all of the peds, its done on startup..

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It has been a little quesionable to me that if every "thing" in the level can be obtained by simply going through the thing ID from 0 to the number of things in the level. Also I add a little optimization to that.


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[This message has been edited by Hideki (edited November 12, 2001).]

You can obtain every "thing" in a level just by going through the thing ID's from 0 to number of things in the level. Things in levels are given IDs sequentially, and anytime a thing is destroyed, the things with ID #'s higher are all moved down. But I still use the FirstThingInSector()/NextThingInSector() myself.

It does work, and I use it quite frequently.

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