[RELEASED] Emerald AI 3.2 (New Sound Detection) - The Ultimate Universal AAA Quality AI Solution

Yup, and what's even more interesting is that I made sure that aggro was disabled for each one of the companions and the spawned bad guys, and it only happens with 3 or more companions at once. I think its time to go back to a raw EAI install for testing. As you can tell, I've modded the scripts a bit to get things working the way I want them to. Probably something I added for integration again.

Kudos by the way. Ever single update so far has added interesting functions and features. I am very pleased with EAI, having bought it so long ago at version 1.(something)...

Mark

 

I have an interesting question for you. If I wanted to say change the detection from an overlapSphere to a overlapCircle projected from waist level, what elements would I need to change? EDIT: Or is there a way to specify the "Y" value for the detection radius?

I think part of the combat mode "freezing" has to do with the fact that my scene is a model of my home, and with a detection range of 18, the companion AI is detecting things above them in the basement, and below them when they are on the 1st or 2nd floor. There may be a door with a navmesh obstacle blocking the path, but they can still detect the bad guys...

 

Its not gonna break anything right?

 

You purchased this item on Jul 16, 2018. Dear lord, that felt ages ago. Its literly one of the only system assets i use.
Custom everything else, mind you do do have custom AI as well. Ive debated on going back to unistorm over my custom sky.

 

Where is the minimum distance for dynamic wander hard coded? Just the line where it's set would be useful, idk why I'm not seeing it

 

I think in system folder emerald ai system script no?

 

Regards

Can you help me?
Everything works fine for me, my enemy attacks and harms the player,
But I have the problem that when my character is at a height where I shouldn't attack him, the enemy attacks him and hurts him.

Can you set the height that the enemy attacks?

In the image you can see the position of the player and the enemy, the player will be 9 meters high, and the enemy continues to harm him.

Thanks in advance

https://imgur.com/a/0tmshq0#kakENTj

 

is it possible to use the player damage with made controller (Not asset one)?

 

Yes

 

and player needs a box collider or will a capsule collider do ? (not using any weapons on either ai or player)

 

On your own controller? Any collider will work. AI just sends a message on hit.

 

ah right my still dosen't seem to cause damage to the player it attacks but it wont send damage

 

Did you read the documents to set it up?

 

BHS discribes here

 

yeah no i followed all of this just ai dosen't seem to deal the damage to my player, it deals damage to other ai though

 

whats the Damage function for your controller?

 

my controller dosen't have a damage function atm i have a health script and damage script, health attached to player and damage attached to ai. My controller is just a basic movement script

 

ahh.... well in your health script, what is the message or what not called, in order to damage your health script?

 

sorry finally got it damaging my player but its health goes past 0 in minus numbers is their away to stop this?

 

im not a coder at all, but in the damaging portion, you would need something in the health script like

if (Health <= 0)
do stuff

 

alright have something similar

 

Thats why i use playmaker . So in the emerald player damage script, i cause it to send a fsm event to my playmaker health script. To which i can do all kinds of stuff to it

 

nvm done it thanks anyway though

 

Thanks for insights. Actual problem turned out to be that I had the 'PlayerHealth' script attached to my player, instead of 'EmeraldAIPlayerHealth'. I think it's an artifact of my older project I reused player components from.

 

Anyone know how to delay the game from pausing once player has died ?

 

I see there is 'Hit Effect' for when AI takes melee damage in Combat Settings (the 'Use Hit Effect' setting). Why is there no 'ranged' hit effect?

 

On the ranged ability, can you use the collision effect? I forget if you can use multiple of those too

 

Pausing? Like by error? Or by script? I dont remember seeing anything to do with pausing the game in any of the emerald scripts.

 

na i mean like when testing game it plays then once my character dies the pause button gets selected but i want to delay this

 

this pause action

 

On your console window, turn off error pausing

 

ah that worked thank you forgot about that!

 

Also, I'm trying to inflict damage on Enemy AI by calling Damage via script (as shown on last page of current EAI documentation).
What does the EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem.TargetType.AI in that Damage function map to? Should it be Player or AI?

if (hit.transform.GetComponent<EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem>() != null)
{
hit.transform.GetComponent<EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem>().Damage(emeraldAIAndroidDamage, EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem.TargetType.AI, hit.transform, 50);
}

Additionally, I had thought that any time that Damage function was invoked the 'ranged combat hit animations' would be triggered, but they never get fired. Is there something else I need to provide to trigger those?

 

to damage AI, I call Void Damage (int , target type, transform, int) to the AIs emerald AI script. I tend to do Player for the target type. but im not entirely sure what that does. I could imagine it does numerous things for targeting and such. but if I call target type of AI or Player, Damage wise it doesn't seem to matter from what ive seen. both still do damage. The range "hit" animation should play when your target is hit, and is in the ranged stance. (not necessarily just at ranged).

 

really by looking at the animator. its mainly just a Hit trigger that goes off, if the AI is in movement state, it goes to the Hit animation, if the AI is in the melee locomotion states, the trigger goes to the melee hit animation, and if the AI is in the ranged locomotion states, the Hit goes to ranged hit animations. also, something new I learned. in basic movement state, the AI cant block, according to the animator.

 

Heres the promo video i threw together (WIP), EAI:

 

Looks nice, would be nice to hear footsteps. If you also want a added level of realism. You should look into the spine and tail animator. They are easy to use and make a phenomenal difference

 

In a future update, could we get an option to not disable additional colliders on Emerald creatures? Having to manually enable each one is a little bit monotonous, especially if you have a lot.

 

@p_hergott yea, i saw that will be grabbing that this coming week, thnx

 

Is there an intergration with A* Path finding project?

 

how can i link my damage script to allow it to damage ai ? does the health located in stats go down ?

damage script :

Code (CSharp):

1.  public int DamageAmount;
2.  
3.     private int hitRange = 1;
4.  
5.     public bool isDead = false;
6.  
7.  
8.     void Update()
9.     {
10.         if (Input.GetKeyDown("e"))
11.         {
12.             Attack();
13.  
14.         }
15.  
16.  
17.         void Attack()
18.         {
19.                 RaycastHit hit;
20.                 Vector3 forward = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward);
21.                 Vector3 origin = transform.position;
22.  
23.                 if (Physics.Raycast(origin, forward, out hit, hitRange))
24.                 {
25.                     if (hit.transform.gameObject.tag == "EmeraldAI")
26.                     {
27.                         hit.transform.gameObject.SendMessage("AIDamage");
28.                         hit.collider.GetComponent<EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem>().Damage(50, EmeraldAI.EmeraldAISystem.TargetType.AI);
29.                         hit.collider.GetComponent<DamageXP>();
30.  
31.  
32.                     }
33.  
34.                 }
35.  
36.             }
37.  
38.  
39.         }

 

Hey @BHS great asset, i'm facing an issue that if i shoot AI outside its detection trigger logically it should attack me if its Behavior is Aggressive/Cautious and confidence level is Brave/Foolhardy. It just don't attack keeps on playing Combat idle animation on loop and then it dosent matter if i go close it it wont attack me also, but if i go in trigger distance it works fine like it should. What could i have done wrong, im not missing any animations.

 

No one has this problem? I have placed a box on top of the enemy, the box is very far above it, and it hurts, I have looked in the manual and there is nothing to set the attack height.

I am using RFPSP, and I have followed the steps of the tutorial and its integration, but this happens to me.

 

How can I make my AI flee near death by crawling off? I tried using flee events to play the clip as an emote loop but it didnt work

 

Well, this problem has to happen to everyone.

I open the Playable Demo scene
I put a ramp,
and the enemies hit and damage the player, being very far in "Y" from them

This is not normal, if it is melee the enemies should not hit the player at that height, they do not arrive.

https://imgur.com/a/z1cvpx8

 

Physics2D.OverlapCircle is 2D only and will not work. There's no way to set the y value for detection as it's a radius and has no individual axes. However, you could switch the Physics.OverlapSpere to Physics.OverlapBox and set the halfExtents x and z for the distance to check then individually set the halfExtents for the y to control the height. So, something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. Collider[] CurrentlyDetectedTargets = Physics.OverlapBox(transform.position, new Vector3(EmeraldComponent.DetectionRadius, YourDetectionHeight, EmeraldComponent.DetectionRadius), EmeraldComponent.UILayerMask);

If you wanted the detection to be near the middle of your AI, you could try the addition of the AI's y local scale:

Code (CSharp):

1. Collider[] CurrentlyDetectedTargets = Physics.OverlapBox(transform.position+new Vector3(0,transform.localScale.y/2,0), new Vector3(EmeraldComponent.DetectionRadius, YourDetectionHeight, EmeraldComponent.DetectionRadius), EmeraldComponent.UILayerMask);

Are your AI using the Line of Sight Detection Type? They shouldn't be able to set other AI as targets unless they can see them.

 

It shouldn't. It's just some minor bug fixes.

 

In the EmeraldAISystem script within the GenerateWaypoint function:

Code (CSharp):

1. while (DistanceFromDestination <= (m_NavMeshAgent.stoppingDistance + 2))

The hard coded minimum distance is used to stop an AI from generating a waypoint that's too close. If an AI generates a waypoint that's below it's stopping distance, it won't move to it.