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This is an addon that will automatically spawn NPCs on the map at predetermined movement points. NPCs can walk around the map, perform random actions, attack or defend.
The system is quite optimized and almost does not load the system. NPCs are removed when they disappear from the player's field of view, and appear with a certain delay. The spawn process is performed between server frames, which does not create unnecessary lags.
This addon can rather be considered a base for development. There is basic functionality here, but if you are a developer, you can fairly easily extend the system to suit your conditions and for any gamemode.
The wiki is currently under development and some methods may not be described. When the wiki is complete, this warning will be removed.
-- The hook is called when the NPC is looking at an object.
-- In this example, the police give the player 2 warnings with animation, and then push him away.
hook.Add("BGN_NPCLookAtObject", "BGN_PoliceWarnAndPushPlayerIfHeIsClose", function(actor, ent)
if ent:IsPlayer() and actor:GetType() == 'police'
and actor:GetState() == 'walk'
and actor:IsSequenceFinished()
then
if ent:GetPos():DistToSqr(actor:GetNPC():GetPos()) > 50 ^ 2 then return end
-- Get temporary table of state data
local data = actor:GetStateData()
-- Add a variable to the temporary state table, if it does not exist
data.LuggageWarn = data.LuggageWarn or 0
if data.LuggageWarn < 2 then
-- Play warn animation
actor:PlayStaticSequence('LuggageWarn')
data.LuggageWarn = data.LuggageWarn + 1
else
-- Play push animation
actor:PlayStaticSequence('LuggagePush')
-- A local function that pushes the player away from the entity
TargetPlayerPush(actor:GetNPC(), ent, 250)
data.LuggageWarn = 0
end
end
end)NPCs do not have extra code and overloaded tables. For each background NPC an "Actor" class is created, through which most actions are carried out. This makes the code cleaner.
During testing, we used the factory settings of cvars.
