Making Sheep Sprint

[max power 21]

This seems a bit obscure but I hope someone has an idea of how to hack out some behaviour from these blasted sheep.

What I'm after it making some sheep mill around for a few second and then trigger them to sprint away.

So, I found out the hard way (like everyone else) that sheep can't be grouped or be given waypoints because they are agents. So, I was asking around and apparently the thing to do is use scripts to create them with createUnit. Now they can be grouped and they can be given waypoints... but NOTHING I can do will make them sprint. I thought maybe they can't sprint, so I tried making a sheep a player to see what they are capable of- they can sprint, they just choose not to.

Another problem I'm having is not being able to name the sheep- but I think maybe that's more a problem from the fact I've only been scripting for like 3 days and not necessarily a problem with the game.

So, I thought maybe executing some scared sheep FSMs might help... But I can't execute FSM on these sheep now because the sheep FSMs require agents. :jail:

Does anyone have any idea how I can just make some bloody sheep and get them to mince around, then sprint away?

[BigMorgan 11]

I think this is what you're looking for:

(/prepares for infraction)

[blakeace 11]

This won't affect how fast they move, but I have used the moveto command on them and cows to get them to move.

I found for my project cows better because they have a faster movement compared to sheep. Not sure what you are doing, but I found the sheep to be quite slow. Goats are quite fast so seem to react better.

I used the forcespeed command to obtain a level of control over their speed, by slowing down certain animals that weren't as "freaked" by a vehicle.

An example of what the above commands acheived. Sheep not shown below.

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Hope this helps

Blake

[panther42 52]

Could you use the attachTo command to attach them to a civilian, but set the presence of the civilian to 0, or car, etc? I think I've seen this with other objects.

[Synide 0]

Have a look in animals2.pbo... there's already 'scared' fsm's (like reactDanger.fsm, reactFire.fsm) and functionality enabled through the config.

See the execFSM and related scripting commands for altering the various fsm's variables as needed.

You'll note in the Sheep's config it inherits from 'CAAnimalBase' which already has a 'firedNear' eventHandler in-place for instance that runs 'ca\animals2\data\scripts\reactfire.fsm'.

FSM's are a whole little sub-culture in RV... quite cool & interesting really.

Edited January 12, 2012 by Synide

[igneous01 19]

Could you use the attachTo command to attach them to a civilian, but set the presence of the civilian to 0, or car, etc? I think I've seen this with other objects.

yea, you attach the sheep to a civilian, and hide the civilian and allowdamage false. then you just give the civilian and sheep a waypoint intead, if it looks like its going too fast, use forcespeed on the civilian to make it look like the sheep is naturally running

[max power 21]

Have a look in animals2.pbo... there's already 'scared' fsm's (like reactDanger.fsm, reactFire.fsm) and functionality enabled through the config.

See the execFSM and related scripting commands for altering the various fsm's variables as needed.

You'll note in the Sheep's config it inherits from 'CAAnimalBase' which already has a 'firedNear' eventHandler in-place for instance that runs 'ca\animals2\data\scripts\reactfire.fsm'.

FSM's are a whole little sub-culture in RV... quite cool & interesting really.

I've been looking at those but they don't sprint from danger. They just toddle around.

---------- Post added at 08:32 ---------- Previous post was at 08:21 ----------

This won't affect how fast they move, but I have used the moveto command on them and cows to get them to move.

I found for my project cows better because they have a faster movement compared to sheep. Not sure what you are doing, but I found the sheep to be quite slow. Goats are quite fast so seem to react better.

I used the forcespeed command to obtain a level of control over their speed, by slowing down certain animals that weren't as "freaked" by a vehicle.

An example of what the above commands acheived. Sheep not shown below.

Hope this helps

Blake

That looks great, BlakeAce. I guess these animals were placed in the editor?

Just for academic purposes, have you found a way to name them via script? I'm finding setvehiclevarname a little difficult to use for some reason. Also, it seems like you're able to put agents into 'teams', but these teams seem to be different than the fireteams which are a subgroup of groups. Do you know anything about that?

Igneous and Panther

Thank you for your replies. You'll be happy to know that a BIA employee suggested the same thing! I'm going to try some other measures first but I think I may have to resort to this ingenious method.

Thanks everyone for your very helpful replies.

[Master85 1]

I tried an old beta (86194) and the ai sheep were able to move as fast as a player controlled sheep.

Then I tried beta 86233 and ai sheep did not run move as fast as player controlled sheep anymore.

So it's probably related to https://dev-heaven.net/issues/26280#note-9 and https://dev-heaven.net/issues/26444.

[max power 21]

Thanks for the heads up, Master85!

I eventually solved this in a really complicated (for me) way.

I spawned a bunch of agent sheep to graze and look sheepish- however, a lot of the time they appear to iceskate. When the scary scariness approaches, a trigger executes a script that:

• Gets a bunch of men and hides them, then sets their positions and orientations to the positions and orientations of the agent sheep.
  
• Attaches the agent sheep to the men.
  
• Spawns a bunch of identical unit sheep some distance away.
  
• Gets the position, orientation, and animation of each agent sheep.
  
• Moves the unit sheep to the agents sheep's locations, and switches their animations to match.
  
• Hides the agent sheep.
  
• Attaches the unit sheep to the men.
  
• Gives the men orders that gets them to run at a speed limited to a running sheep to a location with a little bit of random delay so they don't take off all at once like robots... and disables their FSM chattiness. I had a few sheep run by me going "Hey there!"
  
• Forces the unit sheep to play the running sheep animation after a short delay so they have time to turn around first.
  

And like 5 days ago I didn't script at all. Damn cutscenes. Thanks to everyone in this thread plus Mondkalb and Celery. No thanks to Gossamer Solid.

Edited January 13, 2012 by Max Power

[blakeace 11]

I guess these animals were placed in the editor?

Just for academic purposes, have you found a way to name them via script? I'm finding setvehiclevarname a little difficult to use for some reason. Also, it seems like you're able to put agents into 'teams', but these teams seem to be different than the fireteams which are a subgroup of groups. Do you know anything about that?

Yes editor placed.

I have done it two ways, first uses the sync method. Sync all the sheep to a reference object, minus the reference object from the array of synced objects to get an array of all the sheep objects.

_ref_object = _this select 0;
_sheep_array = synchronizedObjects _ref_object ;
_sheep_array = _sheep_array -[_ref_object];

The other way was to create a trigger in a script started from one of the sheep objects, then filter for the same type of object as the calling object. Not very elegant, but works.

SR2 = [this, typeof this] execVM "Herd_Behaviour.sqf";

_refobj = _this select 0;
_ClassType = _this select 1;

_trg2=createTrigger["EmptyDetector",getPos _refobj];
_trg2 setTriggerArea[1000,1000,0,false];
_trg2 setTriggerActivation["ANY","PRESENT",false];
_trg2 setTriggerTimeout [0, 0, 0, true ];
_trg2 setTriggerStatements["this", "", ""];

waituntil {sleep 1; count  (list _trg2) >0}; 

_Herd_List = [];
{
if (_x iskindof _ClassType) then
{
	_Herd_List = _Herd_List + [_x];
};
}foreach (list _trg2);

fsm's are on my todo list to learn about, so can''t help there.