| What 'should' happen in Arrival [message #381] |
Thu, 13 February 2025 13:10  |
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Horemheb
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Once the bugs and kinks are worked out, this is what should be happen during the arrival period:
-Students and staff will spawn at the school gate throughout the arrival period
-Most will go to their homerooms or offices to wait for homeroom
-Some will opt to do other activities before heading to homeroom, which currently are:
---Smoking
---"Hanging Out"
---Playing Sports
---Studying outside of the classroom
---Gambling
---Meeting up for a sexual liaison (very rare)
[What the NPCs choose to do will depends on their generated traits along with a bit of randomness.]
When characters do this you will see a placeholder graphic over them indicting they are doing something else.
The A.I. has some issues in that it would not attempt to do other activities and also freeze up at the door for many. It is mostly fixed in the upcoming #4 build, but we're still working on narrowing down where a major performance bottleneck seems to be after many students spawn before release.
[Updated on: Thu, 13 February 2025 14:44] Report message to a moderator |
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| Re: What 'should' happen in Arrival [message #405 is a reply to message #403] |
Thu, 13 February 2025 18:34  |
matt_uk
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Horemheb wrote on Thu, 13 February 2025 17:49Quote:If I click on "find", it will take me to a (fairly large) part of the building (where presumably that character is) (if they are in the building). But there are usually several characters there. How do I know which is the one I've selected?
There is still clumping up going on; we'll be working on getting them separated. (They actually do have assigned seats already in code, so hopefully this will be an easy fix.)
Quote: I see there are icons with puppet strings (presumably for control), but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is that not done yet or am I missing something?
Puppet strings are working from my end, but it looks like if a character is walking already it will not work.
Quote:The clothing does not inidcated if they are teachers or students and seems to change on the same person very frequently?
Graphics are largely placeholders at this stage.
-Students wear a full uniform with a red crest on the jacket. Trousers will always be dark blue
-Administrators have a jacket with no crest; trousers will vary
-Teachers wear a dress shirt of varying colors with no jacket; trousers will also vary
-Gym teacers wears polo shirts
With luck all will become much clearer in a few more builds  [/quote]
The characters' clothing, skin colour and hair colour are changing. Previously approximately once every second or so, now approx once every 4-5 seconds.
From your description, I'm not sure if you're seeing the same as I am.
I've taken some screenshots from two re-runs and pasted them into one JPEG per re-run so it's easier to play "Spot the difference".
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Attachment: Re-run A.jpg
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| Re: What 'should' happen in Arrival [message #428 is a reply to message #405] |
Fri, 14 February 2025 19:25 |
matt_uk
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matt_uk wrote on Thu, 13 February 2025 18:34Horemheb wrote on Thu, 13 February 2025 17:49Quote:If I click on "find", it will take me to a (fairly large) part of the building (where presumably that character is) (if they are in the building). But there are usually several characters there. How do I know which is the one I've selected?
There is still clumping up going on; we'll be working on getting them separated. (They actually do have assigned seats already in code, so hopefully this will be an easy fix.)
Quote: I see there are icons with puppet strings (presumably for control), but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is that not done yet or am I missing something?
Puppet strings are working from my end, but it looks like if a character is walking already it will not work.
Quote:The clothing does not inidcated if they are teachers or students and seems to change on the same person very frequently?
Graphics are largely placeholders at this stage.
-Students wear a full uniform with a red crest on the jacket. Trousers will always be dark blue
-Administrators have a jacket with no crest; trousers will vary
-Teachers wear a dress shirt of varying colors with no jacket; trousers will also vary
-Gym teacers wears polo shirts
With luck all will become much clearer in a few more builds
The characters' clothing, skin colour and hair colour are changing. Previously approximately once every second or so, now approx once every 4-5 seconds.
From your description, I'm not sure if you're seeing the same as I am.
I've taken some screenshots from two re-runs and pasted them into one JPEG per re-run so it's easier to play "Spot the difference".[/quote]
I've checked in version 5 (using the saved file copied from version 4) and characters are still clumping and colours changing.
Still, I can't use the puppet strings to control characters.
All above version 5 (using saved file from version 4 as I didn't have time to start from scrach), Windows 11 Home, 1980 x 1020, both 100% and 125% scale
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| Re: What 'should' happen in Arrival [message #535 is a reply to message #534] |
Thu, 03 April 2025 12:40 |
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Horemheb
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Quote:I can't get CP mode to work at all, the messages i get are, "only Prefects, Headteachers and Admin can implement CP" However the controlled person is one of these. Is this because CP is not implemented yet?. Am I doing something wrong to implement it.?
First:
1. Double check that your school policies allow whoever's role you are controlling to use cp.
2. Ensure the student you are trying to punish has actually done something wrong
If no dice, it may be a bug, which we'll check out.
In the interim you can try this:
1. Open up the console using the ~ or F10 keys
2. Type in the following command: "norules" (no quotes) and hit enter
3. Close the console again using the ~ or F10 keys
This command should disable both the authority figure requirement and the need for the student to have broken a rule to use CP.
[Updated on: Thu, 03 April 2025 12:43] Report message to a moderator |
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