Annotated Objects (Again)

Nazrix · 2002-06-10T21:50:39

I'm working on something like what Bishop_Pass once discussed about objects that can send out signals to agents. This is kind of a little question but I want to make sure I design this right from the ground up. I have some basic objects like a food & a health-increasing object (like a potion or something). My question is a matter of design mostly. Basically should each object look at all NPCs nearby and figure out which ones might need its help, or should NPCs figure out what they need then when an object's services agree with what the NPC needs he'll use it. Example: Should an apple say: "Ok, NPC Bob's hunger is high so I'll send him a message of how urgently he needs me" ...or... Should the NPC say: "ok my hunger is getting high I'll remember that I need something that will help my hunger level (via storing it into a variable)" Then when an apple or some food says "I'll help your hunger" then the NPC goes to eat it [edited by - Nazrix on June 8, 2002 6:08:08 AM]

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Started by Nazrix June 08, 2002 04:23 AM

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superpig

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June 10, 2002 01:15 PM

quote: Original post by coldacid
superpig: I don''t think so. If you''re volunteering, yay!

If you do, could you see about distilling http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=67961 and adding it''s info to all of this?

eek!

Uhm.. I''ll think about it.

No, seriously... I''ve got the ''portal engine from scratch'' articles to do, and the vague efforts to build a chrome-based forum viewer... maybe once I''ve done those, I''ll look into working on that thread. Of course, I have to understand it first.

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Impossible

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June 10, 2002 05:54 PM

The Sims uses a system exactly like this one. Instead of characters actively searching for items, items broadcast different signals to the characters. It''s definitely a viable system and I think it would scale nicely to a large RPG.

coldacid

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June 10, 2002 09:50 PM

Chrome based forum viewer? As in the sort of chrome seen in Mozilla?

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