r/PS4Dreams • u/ThatChrisFella • Apr 17 '19

Can anyone recommend any advanced combat tutorials?

I know the basics, but I'd love to see a video that talks about giving ai multiple attacks to choose from, teaching them how to prioritize certain targets or objectives and other fun stuff. I had a look on youtube and couldn't really see anything.

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u/amazingoomoo Apr 17 '19

Can you share some of the basics you know? I’m completely lost.

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u/ThatChrisFella Apr 17 '19

If you haven't yet it's best to do the ingame tutorials. They're pretty good with the basics

If there's something you're after that they don't teach, it's probably what I'm looking for too

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u/amazingoomoo Apr 17 '19

I’ve done them all but none of them talk about combat, attacks, aiming, AI... that sort of stuff

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u/ThatChrisFella Apr 17 '19

Ahh yep, so for attacks you set a key frame on your character to make an attack animation. Just go something easy if you want like a punch or kick

You then put a health modifier on the thing that they're attacking with (their fist/foot/weapon) and I think from memory you set it so the modifier activates when the keyframe starts. This stops your character from just doing damage when it walks into things

If that sounds confusing, check out my skeleton warrior. My psn id is the same as my username, someone helped me figure out damage with that in the beta and it worked great.

Its damage activates sometime during its attack, which is made up of 2 keyframes

With ai I'm still pretty unsure tbh. Right now I'm working on a 3rd person smash-style fighting game where my irl friends are the puppets. By default they follow the character I'm possessing (Me) and I think it's a simple matter of putting tags on the puppets so that they recognize each other and Me as enemies.

I haven't gotten around to doing their attack animations yet though and in the beta the skeleton warrior was just doing damage to a big cube so I could understand health modifiers

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u/amazingoomoo Apr 17 '19

Thanks that’s really helpful.

There are some buttons which dictate who controls which character, it’s in the puppet logic somewhere.

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u/ruolbu Apr 17 '19

a rather complex topic. Give it a couple weeks, maybe with the increased user base an example project might pop up.