[TEC] Crew Scripting

[Therion_Prime]

Ok, i found out how to load a sub into the goblin editor and display waypoints. Lots of stuff can be adjusted here:


You can barely see the chiefs waypoint on the white collision floor to the right. Now I have to figure out how to move it and how to add more waypoints.

[Heretic]

Originally Posted by Therion_Prime

Ok, i found out how to load a sub into the goblin editor and display waypoints. Lots of stuff can be adjusted here:

You can barely see the chiefs waypoint on the white collision floor to the right. Now I have to figure out how to move it and how to add more waypoints.

Cool stuff huh? I've gotten that far but never figured out how to change anything but the crew parts. That was before I figured out I could change them with scripts.

Be careful moving waypoints. The animations are built for them. If you move them, you may throw off an animation and have guys walking through walls or something.

[GermanGS]

Originally Posted by Therion_Prime

Ok, i found out how to load a sub into the goblin editor and display waypoints. Lots of stuff can be adjusted here:


You can barely see the chiefs waypoint on the white collision floor to the right. Now I have to figure out how to move it and how to add more waypoints.

Please describe the steps of how you done it

[Therion_Prime]

Originally Posted by GermanGS

Please describe the steps of how you done it

Just open the main submarine *.gr2 with the goblin editor and it will load all "child" gr2s automatically. i.e. ..\SH5\data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7a\NSS_Uboat7a.GR2

[kapitan_zur_see]

How do you make it to show the result of a script editing without having to restart the entire game from desktop to loading a patrol?

I can't make the game to sort of "reload" my saved script whilst staying ingame? I tried with the AI debugger script editor using the "reload script" function, but no luck, except it messes the AI debugger itself and end up showing CR_NAV_IDLE in the CR_HF tree and causing CTD.

Do you always have to start all the game through to take a new script in effect? painfull!!!

[Heretic]

I've always restarted between changes. Takes a while, but I guess I have a high tolerance for such things. I looked through the script editor but couldn't see anything that looked like it applied to Crew AI. Looks like you've found some way to at least view it? I'd be very interested in learning that. Perhaps I'd be able to find more functions.

[kapitan_zur_see]

Originally Posted by Heretic

I've always restarted between changes. Takes a while, but I guess I have a high tolerance for such things. I looked through the script editor but couldn't see anything that looked like it applied to Crew AI. Looks like you've found some way to at least view it? I'd be very interested in learning that. Perhaps I'd be able to find more functions.

Simply open ingame the AI script debugger, not the script manager, using windows taskbar. select "crew" in the first menu called "select unit type", then in the "select unit" one, scroll down to "CR_HF" for example. But it doesn't show much if anything at all.

I'm stuck trying to find a way editing anims in gmax or 3dsmax though. And that goblin editor is nothing but a controller parameters editor, you can't move objects, can't add waypoints and most importantly, you can't ADD controllers also! more of a viewer than anything else... A tweaker, shall we say. It looks powerfull at first sight, but it's very restrictive

[Heretic]

Originally Posted by kapitan_zur_see

Simply open ingame the AI script debugger, not the script manager, using windows taskbar. select "crew" in the first menu called "select unit type", then in the "select unit" one, scroll down to "CR_HF" for example. But it doesn't show much if anything at all.

Thanks! I don't know if it's of any use as a real-time script tweaker, seems to always crash. But it's a great debugger because it shows the values in the variables. Very handy.

[piri_reis]

Originally Posted by kapitan_zur_see

you can't move objects, can't add waypoints and most importantly, you can't ADD controllers also! more of a viewer than anything else... A tweaker, shall we say. It looks powerfull at first sight, but it's very restrictive

Using GE, I haven't found a way to move points or play around with the meshes.. But you can definitely add controllers. The easiest being the free camera optics. Done it myself.

Some Modders are sure to be using this to add/modify controllers, as we speak .

[GermanGS]

Originally Posted by Therion_Prime

Just open the main submarine *.gr2 with the goblin editor and it will load all "child" gr2s automatically. i.e. ..\SH5\data\Submarine\NSS_Uboat7a\NSS_Uboat7a.GR2

Thanks Alot it really helps to see were i want the crew to go to.

[Heretic]

Working with sound files

Wp:PlayAttenuatedSoundWithLipsync("file", delay);
Wp:PlaySoundWithLipsync("file", delay);

These two functions work the same, with PlaySoundWithLipsync having the same volume regardless of distance, and PlayAttenuatedSoundWithLipsync having the volume fade over distance.

You can play any ogg file with these functions. I haven't tried mp3 but wav files definitely don't work. The "file" component is the path name within the speech folder followed by the file name without the extension. The delay variable tells how long, in seconds, to delay before playing the sound, so you can sync it up with a movement, tie multiple sounds together etc.

Wp:PlayAttenuatedSoundWithLipsync("ChiefEngineer\N ormal\MC_CR_CHIEF_53", 15.0); # "fore planes"
Wp:PlayAttenuatedSoundWithLipsync("ChiefEngineer\N ormal\MC_CR_CHIEF_140", 16.4); # "eight"
Wp:PlayAttenuatedSoundWithLipsync("ChiefEngineer\N ormal\MC_CR_CHIEF_55", 17.2); # "degrees down"

Note that the delay is from the first command. Each character can only be playing one sound at a time, it you set the delay too low, and the previous sound isn't finished, the sound won't play. The German and English speech files are not exactly the same length, so you should test with both to make sure it works ok in both versions.

You can't play any of the sounds other than those in the speech folder. There's ways around that though. Just copy the sound you want, convert it to an ogg, then put it in the speech folder.

I used the helmsman to 'speak' the dive alarm bell when the dive command is given. I used the non-attenuated version, so the sound isn't localized. I copied the Submarine Bell.wav file from the sounds folder, used an audio editor to loop it three times so it'd play longer, then saved it as an ogg. Note, you can't have spaces in the file name.

Wp:PlaySoundWithLipsync("MFCM\Submarine_Bell", 0.0);

[Heretic]

Using Global Variables.

Wp:SetGlobalVariable(variable, value)
Wp:GetGlobalVariable(variable)

Sometimes it's useful to use a variable to control things in your script. The tutorial strategies use this to control things. The interaction between the cook and bosun are also controlled by variables. Variable values are stored with the save game.

You add a new variable to file init.aix. Increment the index by one for each variable you add. These variables are single digit only 0-9. I haven't tried letters.

VAR_SQ_BOSUN_STATE = 13;
VAR_CR_NAV_STATE = 14;
VAR_CR_CHIEF_STATE = 15;
VAR_CR_SO_STATE = 16;
VAR_CR_SO_KILL_COOK_TRIGGER = 17; <-- here's our new entry

To set the variable:

Wp:SetGlobalVariable(VAR_CR_SO_KILL_COOK_TRIGGER, 1);

To check the variable:

if Wp:GetGlobalVariable(VAR_CR_SO_KILL_COOK_TRIGGER) == 1
{

Wp:PlayAnimationAndWait( "Use_Machete_on_Cook" );

}
endif;

[KarlSteiner]

Hi Heretic,

thanks to your geat work and information about the Crew-animations e.t.c..

We in Germany say: SH5 is a banana-product. It ripes under at the clients.

Thanks to you the banana grows riper!


Best regards

Karl
My poor work for SH3:

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/2371008762/...431054756#9431054756

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...756#6011016756

[THE_MASK]

Originally Posted by Therion_Prime

Ok, i found out how to load a sub into the goblin editor and display waypoints. Lots of stuff can be adjusted here:


You can barely see the chiefs waypoint on the white collision floor to the right. Now I have to figure out how to move it and how to add more waypoints.

anyone know how i get the dropdown box to work with windows 7 ? It just flickers .

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by sober

anyone know how i get the dropdown box to work with windows 7 ? It just flickers .

Right click on the exe file and select Properties. Under the compatibility tab ensure Disable visual themes is checked