Keep the chickens inside!

[bospor 0]

Making a mission where chickens on the farm need to stay inside the building. They keep walking through walls of the barn. I even put another wall around the barn, but these sons of bitches are still walking through that as well. What would you guys suggest to keep them in?

[bad benson 1733]

hm. i know it may sound weird but simple stuff like that is actually hard to do in this engine.

here's what i would do.

put this inside the init line of the chicken

this disableAI "FSM"

you might need to turn off other parts of the AI. check here for more info http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableAI

now they will stay in place. if you need them to move you should run a script that gives them "moveto" or "domove" commands to postions (maybe place markers) in a loop.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/doMove

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/moveTo

it's actually easy to do. if you need more help, feel free to ask here.

[zooloo75 833]

I had this issue in my RP mission - I solved it by having any chickens that leave the area get deleted and respawn a new one - or maybe I teleported the chicken back to the location.

[max power 21]

Animals in this game are a kind of AI called agents. Agents are quite rigid and seem to be optimized for ambient life. There is another kind of ai called units. You could spawn unit chickens but they will act more like soldiers and not like chickens, but they should respect walls.

[bospor 0]

Thanks guys. I'll try keeping them in cages and make them not move with disableAI comands. I think it's the easiest way

[rga_noris 3]

You could put a rectanglular trigger that is activated by the chicken. Then when the chicken leaves, on deactivate issue a doMove back to a waypoint in the middle of the trigger.

[bospor 0]

Rga_Noris could you elaborate please. I got the part about the trigger, about the deactivation field in the trigger, but what exactly whould you type for the doMove command in that field? what would happen after they move to the waypoint in the middle of the trigger? Please help man, I tried this disable "FSM" command, but it's not working. This disable "MOVE" just freezes the chicken, they look like porcelain chickens everywhere :)

I figured it out! For those who even remotely interested in the outcome of this topic in the future :) Rga_Noris was right. Inside the area that chicken (ambient life) needs to stay in, like a barn for example, make a trigger that is connected to chicken (group the chicken and the trigger with F2). Name the chicken for example Chk1 and make a marker inside the trigger. Name the marker ChkPoint. In deactivation (not activation) of a trigger type this: Chk1 doMove ChkPoint

Seems to be working fine. Thanks gents for your time!

Edited July 17, 2013 by Bospor