Level Design Fall_TriggerPack_V2

[Falidell]

This is a new thread continued over from the first TriggerPack. as i continue on the pack ill be updating this thread to keep you in the loop. eventually ill turn this First Post into a List of Triggers, their descriptions, how to use em, etc. but im still working out the bugs and stuff and renaming/changing/adding variables so it would just be a wait of time to do them all right now. for now ill add placeholders for the triggers along with basic descriptions.

Warning there is a lot of triggers and crap... and a lot of them arn't even listed... the pack has gotten pretty big....

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FA_AutoTrigger

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this trigger is fired automatically, either before the game starts or for the moment the game starts after the lobby screen.....

EventsToFire - an array of Events to fire

StartOnHumanSpawn - if true it'll wait untill after lobby screen to fire the events False fires them just before the lobbyscreeen.

FA_Counter

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my Version of the Counter... a few extra things to playwith.

EachTriggeredEvent - *Special use* i put this in simply so you can create Counter Stacks lol this event fires every time the count increases from being triggered.

FinishedEvent - the Event to fire after we reached our count

IncrementOnReset - how much to increase/Decrease the NumToCount after we reached our Count

NumToCount - how many times do we need to be triggered to fire our FinishedEvent

StopAtNumToCount - True makes it so it doesn't reset back to 0 after we fire our FinishedEvent, False means it'll reset to 0 after we reached our NumtoCount After we fired our FinishedEvent and will Add/Subtract our IncrementOnReset

FA_ItemSpawner

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when triggered it'll spawn 1 of many items you decide, based on weights. you can even spawn Ammo boxes here, i made a modified version of the KFAmmoPickup called FA_AmmoPickup that can be spawned... other then spawnability the ammoPickups are exactly the same..

ItemRespawnOps

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RespawnTime - Amount of time in seconds our spawned items take to respawn
SpawnRespawns - if true our spawned items Respawn if false they don't, after they are picked up they are gone for good

items - an array of stuff our spawner will choose from you can even choose to spawn ammoboxes just make sure you use the FA_AmmoPickup... KFAmmoPickUp WON"T WORK

PickedUpEvent - the event to fire when someone picks up one of our spawned items....

Weight - similar to KFRandomSpawn these are the numbers the spawner will take into account to choose which item to spawn...
ex.
items(1)=Axe
items(2)=Pistol
Weight(1)=2
weight(2)=1
(1)\(1+2)= 66.6_% chance of being choosen
(2)\(1+2)=33.3_% chance of being choosen

FA_ForceRespawner

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When Triggered it'll Respawn Dead/living bots/players within certain areas or everywhere at any spawnpoint or specified ones.. depends on how you set it up... lots of options..

AreaSize - this is a Defined area for the respawner to check for *tip use the cubebuilder tool to decide the size then center the forcerespawner inside the cube then move both the builder brush and the forcerespawner at the same time*

DefinedPlayerStarts- the tags of the player starts you want this forcerespawner to spawn players at..

GiveDefaultInv- true- gives players the default inv... pistol,syringe,welder,knife... false gives them NOTHING

OnlyDeadPlayers-true: Totaly Ignores anyArea Defined and just Respawns the Dead, False means it'll Respawn Living(Optionally only in certain areas) and Dead(Anywhere)

OnlyWithinArea- true makes the Respawner only RespawnPlayers within definedareas and our Area(AreaSize)

OtherAreas- you can have this respawner check other areas useing the FA_Con_PawnsInArea actors

RespawnPlayers=shouldWe?
respawnBots=Should we Respawn "Bots" or "KFFriendlyAI"???

selfDefinedSpots -Should we respawn only those in defined areas?

FA_LoopTrigger

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When Triggered it fires and event repeatedly for a certain amount of times or until triggered again

ZeroDelayStart - TRUE= Start with no initial delay || FALSE= Start With the Delay then fire the first loop.

NumOfLoops - Number of Loops We will Pass before we go idle.. Set at 0 or -1 to make it loop until triggered again

LoopDelay - Delay Between loops. *Try to avoid really low numbers like 0.005 or it can cause problems.... sometimes you can get away with it if what it triggers does very little*

EventToFire- what even shall we fire each Loop: Ex. a Force Respawner to Override KF Game Rules

FA_ConditionalLoop

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just like LoopTrigger but it is linked to a FA_Conditional so it is stoped whenever that conditional is switched(on/off bEnabled/!bEnabled true/Fals whatever you want to call it) i think it's usefull

FA_Conditon the Tag of a FA series Conditional. it can be a multi-conditional, switch, PawnsInArea, etc. any of the FA Series Cons. this is the Conditional it'll check for in each loop. if the state of the conditional changes during the Loops it'll stop

AttemptRetryTime *Special Use* this is a nifty option to have the trigger Check if the FA_Condition has changed back to it's original state it had when this conditional loop was triggered. 1=one second
leave at 0 to have it not do this.

FA_Switch

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a FA_Conditional that is a very simple ordinary true/false on/off ....well switch... can act as a usetrigger and will turn itself true/false accordingly

bUseTriggered- can the player press use on this to switch on?

MoneyCostAmount - Amount of Pounds it costs to use this.... only useable if bUseTriggered is =true and is used by a player

PlayersOnly - Only Players Can use us... *Yes Zeds and Friendly Bots WILL use this if they walk by and PlayersOnly is Not true*

TouchMessage message the player will get for Touching the Switch... ex. *Activate Generator*

ToggleEvent - this is the even fired everytime the switch state on/off is changed either by trigger or player use.

Events->Event is Now Only Fired IF used by a player... Triggering this Switch will only fire the ToggleEvent
doesn't sound very usefull but trust me i did extensive testing with this.. it's a must...

FA_Multi_Conditional

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personally my favorite trigger. this Does NOT have to be triggered. fired automatically when a series of Switches, CampairConditions, or even other Multi_Condtionals become true.. and my fav feature is that all Fa_Conditionals have a variable called ConditonalValue so a condition does not have to be equal to 1 true event. this allows certain Conditions to be of Negative Value. ex. door breaks, ammo picked up.. eta... so if you have 6 linked conditionals you can only require 2 of them to be true or whatever you want.. very usefull for Psuedo Objectives.
this can also be used to create sort of functions thanks to what i call a EventStack. that can be automatically looped
via loop trigger that triggers this. a pulse then gets sent to every connected conditional in the stack. so you can create sort of functions via triggers....... all you have to do is trigger the top of the stack.. so you can create an eventStack function that will check various condtions( players over there, monsters here, etc) that depending on the results will trigger a spawner of helpers and turn on/off player starts... creates very dynamic gameplay with a single event =D

OtherConditions - our list of FA Series Condtionals yes you can even do other Multi_Condtionals

TriggeredForcesOn- *Special Use* True= when the Multi-con is Triggered it'll Set it's State to On Reguardless of otherCondtions || FALSE= operates Automatically. the OtherCondtionals will send their states to the Multi_Condtional and when it gets what it wants it turns on/off

EventPrice - how many points do we need to be turned on... Leave at 0 to make it so that ALL of our OtherConditions must be switched in order that we get turned on.

EnabledEvent - Fire this when we turn on.
DisabledEvent - Fire this when we get turned off... yes they are seperate events....

FA_CompairConditions

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when triggered it compairs 2 conditionals via a specified logic gate :
OR,//True if A is true, or B is true, or both
AND,//true if and only if both A and B are true
XOR, // True if A is not equal to B
ANOTB,//A Must be True and B must be False :: Rare Use BUt i Figured Why Not
NOR // True if neither A nor B

if true then it turns on

ConditionA - our First FA Series conditional to compair
CondtionB - Our Second One

LogicGateType - Durp

TrueEvent -durp
FalseEvent- durp

FA_Con_GameDifficulty

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when triggered it checks gamedifficulty and compairs to specified diff and compairs the 2 with a certain logicgate. but can act as a relay based of difficulty Hard->HardEvent ; HOE->HOEEvent etc...

Difficulty - what dif to we want to compair to the Actual Game Dif

EventsForDiff- this can be a Relay Based on Difficulty so these are the Events that will get fired based on what dif it is..

DifGreater - True= Difficulty must be >= to Actual Diff FALSE= <=

TrueEvent- Durp
FalseEvent- Durp

FA_Con_GameTime

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when triggered it compairs desired gametime to actual gametime... gametime being begining of level to current moment

SecondsPassed- GameTime in Seconds we Desire to Check For

LongerThen - True= >= to Actual GameTime || False= <=

TrueEvent- Durp
FalseEvent- Durp

FA_Con_PawnsinArea

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when triggered it checks if there is a certain amount of a specified pawn or anypawn within a certain LD Defined Area...

LogicGateType - should be Self-Explainitory

SizeOfArea - kind of like useing the cube builder. with the Conditional being the Origin of the Cube... i find it easier to use a Cube Brush size it to what i want place it where i want then place the Condtional in the center of the cube then set the SizeOfArea exactly like the cube brush.. z=Height x=Depth y=Breadth

PawnToCheckFor- specific pawn type to check for...... Set to NONE to check ALL Pawns

CountFor- We Compair Actual to CountFor Counts via the LogicGateType..

AliveOnly Only Count Living Pawns???

AreWeActive Used by the ForceRespawner. Should we be Initially be useable by ForceRespawners? Triggering this Condtional switches this on/off just like the TriggerablePlayerStarts

TrueEvent- Durp
FalseEvent- Durp

FA_Con_PlayerCount

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same as FA_Con_GameDifficulty but with playerCount(NOT BOTS JUST ACTUAL PLAYERS)

GateType - Self Explainitory

NumPlayers - what we want to compair too

NumPlayersADV - Advanced Checking params
---------LivePlayersOnly -Count Only Living Players? ::false Means Dead and Living.. True Player Count.
---------percentageChecking - Check by Player Living ratio
---------Percentage -Percent living. ex. we set this to 0.75 so that means 75% must be alive and 25% must be dead.. we have 4 players one is dead 1/4=0.25 100%-25%=75% so we are good to fire the TrueEvent


TrueEvent- Durp
FalseEvent- Durp

FA_Con_WaveNum

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same as FA_Con_GameDifficulty but with the current wave

TrueEvent- Durp
FalseEvent- Durp

FA_CON_UseTrigger_Pay

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Preset FA_Switch with a usetrigger_pay Set up, Pay as in it charges the player who uses it a certain amount of money, and if they don't have enough..... no money no honey

FA_RandomTrigger

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when triggered it chooses an event to fire based on weights

EventChoices - choices our randomtrigger will choose from

Weights - wieghts for the Events Choices [2]links with Event[2]

FA_Relay_Plus

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this fires as many events as you specify. it mainly for Convience. but wait thats not all you can specify independent events for the events. and thats not all it can be set up as a rotory and you can choose how many to fire each 'turn'

Events - the events that will fire

OnlyONCE- after we fire we can't be triggered again unless reset manually by a FA_ResetER

Rotary- set this as a Rotory

TurnEventsCount- how many events are fired in each turn if Rotory=True

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Array A[4]
turnEventsCount 3
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when triggered it'll initially fire the first 3 in the array
A[0],A[1],A[2]

triggered again it'll fire the next 3 in the array
A[3],A[4],A[0]

notice how it'll go back to A[0] because there is no A[5]

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Tho you can Just Keep TurnEventsCount at default 1
if you only want to trigger the events one at a time
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FA_ResetER

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when Triggered it resets Specified Actors to their Origional State,Postion,whatever they had at beginning of level. usefull for reseting ....lets call them wave template, so instead of copy pasting triggers/events that happen mulitple times just reset those triggers and crap back to normal... this is yet another Convience trigger.

Triggers - what to reset... in thoery should work on ai, movers, etc... untested on everything except triggers tho..

FinishedEvent- Fired After reseting is complete

FA_Shooter

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too many options to explain in detail but basically it Fires a specified amount of Projectiles as a certain rate with a accuracy option as well as a jitter option(to Simulate many enemies) but thats not all it can act as a shotgun and first a certain amount of projects each time it 'fires'

FA_Spawner

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kind of like valves NPC_Spawner... you can define how many of what to spawn at specified FA_SpawnPoints at a specified variable rate, and you can specify how many can be alive at a time... so even tho it has 50 left to spawn the max alive is 10 and we have 10 that are still alive.. when 1 dies it'll spawn another... =) very neat

FA_spawnpoint

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this is what the FA_Spawner uses to spawn NPCs/Pawns you can overide what it spawns at this specific point and you can set weights and reusedelays for better controll over the spawns..

FA_StoryLines

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a series of messages, delays, and events... that make story lines... eh it's pretty self explainitory after the variables are given to you... i'll get to that later.

FA_TriggerChance

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when triggered it has a specifed chance to fire it's event..

FA_VariableTimer

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when triggered it fires it's event after an amount decided based on defined Min/max time

kfDoorMoverPlus

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a Normal KFDoorMover with a lot of Event options and Specifcs....it's pretty impressive.... lol

 

[Falidell]

Reserved i might need this second post... might not have enough room to put all the download, changelog, blah blah political crap, triggers, descriptions, variables(and what they do), etc. on one Post...... as i said there is a lot

 

[PiX]

This is the first time I write this phrase in any forum, but I honestly Can't wait to try this out!

 

[RoBoT]

nice job, I wanna ask something about "FA_ItemSpawner"
when it spawns an item, does the item respawn again later like the normal weapon/ammo pickup or it just spawn 1 time?

 

[Falidell]

the Item Spawner is simply a trigger that spawns stuff when triggered items do not respawn after being picked up. Nor do already spawned items Despawn if triggered again...

-you can choose as many items you want and you can even spawn ammoBoxes(use the FA_AmmoPickup; KFAmmoPickup WILL NOT WORK). this item spawner will decided which single item to spawn based on supplied weights you supply.

it's very simple =)

Trigger->ItemSpawner spawns random item from LD Defined list.

don't worry you don't have to type the classes in it has a dropdown list

with the triggerpack you can have the itemspawners choosen based on difficulty which makes ballancing drops for missionmaps and such easier... you can even tack on a playerCount Conditional for ammo spawning ItemSpawners.. yay no excesive amount of ammo for 3 players and no more 60 plus players not having enough ammo =D

AutoTrigger->FA_Con_GameDif->severalRelays(each for a certain Dif)->the itemspawners

 

[RoBoT]

dude, thats pretty cool... seriously
when your on steam i wanna ask you to try something and hopefully it would work

 

[Falidell]

okidoky =)
anyways update on work.


-i found a problem with the fa_Shooter, that option i added to have the ability to make it a shotgun made the fireSound sound off multipletimes at the sametime... we don't want to overlap this... so i fixed this


-i found yet another problem... this time with the FA_forceRespawner.. basically i forgot to remove something that checks if the pawn/controller is actually what we wanted to respawn in a certain section. so it caused youre pawn to disapear but you'd be.... well dead... thats fixed so now it'll actually give you a pawn again and put you in it.... also im brainstorming some sort of way to send items from the old pawns to the new pawns.. so that way if you get respawned and you had a shotgun, scar, what-have-you, then you will get shotgun, scar, what-have-you in the new pawn. that is for the living players it shouldn't do this with the dead.... as i said im brainstorming...


-i found it necessary to create a stand alone critter spawner... for certain situations.... it's a subclass of the FA_SpawnPoint. it's called FA_Spawnpoint_StandAlone when triggered it'll spawn a single critter of your choice. im also working on a group spawner..... it's surprisingly difficult to make a group spawner... figured out 7 different ways how not to make a group spawner.... running out of ideas.. imma see how the zombie volumes do it..


-also after more experimentation with the FA_Spawner and i figured out the real reason why sometimes it'll stop spawning things... has to do with groups being killed at the same time... say 3 die at the same time it makes it turn into RandRange(1,3) lol so im implementing an automated audit for the spawner that runs each time the spawner supposedly gets to it's maxActive.. i choose then instead of everytime it spawns something because im all for performance.... besides it doesn't have to be 100% accurate all the time it just has to be 100% accurate at the point of MaxActive...lol i was wrong... i implimented the what i dubed Audit and included logs Computedvsactual.... i found that whenever the FA_SpawnPoint Accessed none the Computed would be 5 but the actual would be 4 so the real problem i hope is that the Spawn Failed because the computer is stupid and can't do what i tell it to do LOL

-hmmmm lets see hear... oh yea and i confirmed that the FA_ForceRespawner check area and other areas work =) you'll see on the next release of the Expiremental test map.... thingy.... i'm currently adding rooms to the sides for each trigger showing functionality and how it works for you LD's.. think of it as my constantly updated ShowCase Map

 

[PiX]

I've noticed that FA_ForceRespawner sometimes makes you spawn in behindview. In fact I've heard about this happening even with regular TriggeredPlayerstarts, so it may not have anything to do with your actor.

Is there any way you can make sure this doesn't happen with FA_ForceRespawner ?

 

[Falidell]

sure why not, i just have to figure out how to force firstperson mode lol

i think i found a solution........ not sure no real way to test it except impliment the Theory and hope it works........ to be honest i have NEVER once in my KF Career ever spawned/respawned start/ended whathave you in 3rd person/behind view ...... it strange... it's never happened to me, and i've been playing sense Day 1 after the Release Was "What!" LAte........ by i think it was 4 hours ugh Tormenting i had work the next day and i stayed up so i can download and play the game....... needless to say i had literally 0 sleep when i went into work.....a double no less...

 

[PiX]

Great.

 

[Falidell]

• ok so i filled in the first few triggers variables and such... take a peak....
  
• i've also figured out im a dummy and found a way to actually get the AutoTrigger to work as i origonally intended... reliably =)
  
• i think i found where the behindview variables are from and how to manipulate them.... Stupid xPlayer.........so yea making progress in that..
  
• im almost done with testing/fixing everything, Expect Beta pretty soon.....after Beta there will be no more additions just bug fixing and such...
  
• i actually fixed that friggin FA_Spawner now lol.... oh big problems being fixed by a simply if(blah!=None) conditions lol
  
• umm yea one other thing i've been working on the testbox/showcase level.. atm im working on making a puzzle using the Condtionals, TriggeredLights, and MessageTriggers... nothing crazy just a simple one lol...
  
• found a problem with the delays for the relay....the delays are far to unreliable... they work fine in the smaller tests but for my testbox..point being i tried to make a workaround or something but couldn't so it forced me to remove delays from the FA_relayPlus until i find another way.... =(

 

[Falidell]

alrighty here is work in progress on that test map and triggers..

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20840125/kf-Triggerpack-Fall3.zip

as i said it's work in progress, i just wanted to show you what i have done so far... it not much i know but hey you also get a peaky weeky on the alpha version of the triggerpack... i think i have the onlineviewshaker working.... it's not in the map but it's in the triggerpack... if someone wishes to test it out for me online i'd be very grateful =D

i've ironed out the kinks in

• Fa_Shooter
• FA_itemSpawner
• FA_Multi_Conditional
• FA_Switch(and the subclasses)
• FA_ForceRespawner(tho i still need to impliment my thoery to stop the 3rd person mode that randomly occurs)
• FA_Counter
• FA_StoryLines
• FA_Relay_Plus(tho i still want to find a way to reimpliment a reliable method for Delays that act indepentently)
• FA_LoopTrigger(And the Conditional)
• FA_Con_PawnsInArea
• FA_Con_WaveNum
• FA_Spawner(not is this WIP Release, but i just Fixed it so MaxActive is Accurate 100% of the time)

Edit: i shoulda used a test map/showcase map to test my triggered in the first triggerpack im fixing things everywhere even on thing i had origionally thought worked 100% from the first triggerpack and remained unchanged

 

[PiX]

i think i have the onlineviewshaker working....

Is this actor in the pack?

 

[Falidell]

indeed, as well as a slowmo trigger

 

[slavek]

indeed, as well as a slowmo trigger

**** just got real.

 

[Falidell]

i've been distracted these last few days so not much work has been done.. if your wondering why i've delayed the release so much it's because last time i made the mistake of releasing a buggy incomplete triggerpack. so this time when i release i want it to work lol

 

[slavek]

No rush, this is possibly the best thing ever released in the KF forums. Has so much potential to enhance the game if more people use it.

 

[HaTeMe]

No rush, this is possibly the best thing ever released in the KF forums. Has so much potential to enhance the game if more people use it.

Indeed. This will lead into great things once mappers put them into proper use.

 

[Falidell]

News:

i've updated the Conditionals:

- you can now have a switch or anything be used by as many multi-conditionals as you want.

-and i've changed the code so that if you make conditional stacks to create sort of functions/specifics whatever you no longer have to trigger the non-automated cons the Compaircons will do that for you via a sort of pulse EDIT: Though whatever you have the TOP must be a Compair Conditional

now thats a very basic conditional stack.. it only uses Switches and ComPairConditional and they only use the AND logic wich a multiconditional could do the same thing.... it was just for simply demonstrating it....but you can put ANY of the FA series conditionals into the stack and it'll pulse through the entire stack to see if the Top should fire the True event..... and all you have to do it Trigger the Top lol
you can create some nice logics....

if(Player is in area && player is in that area)
{
if(switch A is enabled OR Switch B is Enabled)
{
if(Wave diff is blah BUT Wave count is Not Past blah)
do something;
}
}

for you coders that translates to
if( (A && B ) && (C || D) && ( Diff>blah && Wave<blah) )
{
do something;
}


make full use of the True/False events all the cons and hell you can create your own gametype with triggers LOL

 

[Falidell]

another news feed....

-im improving the PulseCons that i stated above to make ur..... functions lets call themm.... so that way multi-conditionals will continue the pulse aswell instead of just ending the threaded pulse..... if that makes sense... it does to me.. point is i want the multi-conditional to be used as TOP as well....


- i require a list of projectiles to make for you peoples.... what do you want exactly..... be descriptive and creative if you wish.... and ill see what i can and can not do and then make them...... we'll create an FA_projectile set embedded within the FAll_triggerpack_v2

- also im working with Fel to create some Custom Ai guys and spawners. shouldn't be too hard.... Fel Requested it and discribed it and i rather enjoy the idea... options like weapons..... Friendly to specimens friendly to humans... or hate both or whatever.... combat style.... defend spots....( i found a piece of Controlly Ai code i will be taking advantage of)
almost done with the base work.... makeing it so you can kill them control their flashlights via a specialized Bot Control volume that when the bot touches it toggles flashlights...switchweapons......assume defensive/attacking positions stuff like that... almost done with base work..... then will be the fun stuff.... should take too long...

- ummmm yea i think thats it

EDIT: Did you guys want to play around with the beta version of the triggerpack... i don't think i'll be changing around the names or functionality of what there so far....and as far as i can tell most everything works .....