AI and NPCs

This section contains all things related to NPCs and how to place them in the world using World Builder

Theory

• NPCs in the game world are spawned via two different ways:

  • Crowd NPCs

  • Community NPCs

Crowd NPCs

• Crowd NPCs are as the name suggests spawned as part of the regular crowd that walks the street, they are not fully understood yet

Community NPCs

• Community NPCs are all the other NPCs, that includes everyone from the shopkeepers, quest NPCs, enemy NPCs to NPCs hanging out in specific spots

• Communities allow to define a wide combination of things, allowing for very dynamic setups (E.g. NPC type, amount and spot depending on the time of day):

  • What NPCs

  • When should they spawn

  • How many

  • Where should they spawn

  • Setups such as making them patrol along a spline

Communities can not only be used for spawning an placing NPCs, but anything that has a TweakDB record, e.g. Vehicles

Guides

• Placing AISpot nodes: These serve as markers for NPCs, defining a workspot to be used

• Creating Communities: Explains how to create a community, and make it's NPCs use AISpot's