AI Cooperation During Searches

[Springheel]

. I just have to figure out when to start/stop the anims. I.e. state2 = yes, state 3 & 4 active searching = no, state

 

Any reason not to use it for state 3 active searching? Don't AI just stand in idle pose in state 3 as well? State 4 uses the combat pose when standing, but I didn't think state 3 did.

[grayman]

AI in state 3 active searching move around. They don't stop moving until they drop down to Suspicious.

[Springheel]

They move around, but don't they use a regular walk and stand animation? They'll walk over somewhere, stand there for a few seconds, then walk somewhere else and stand? Maybe I'm getting it mixed up, but I thought it was only state 4 searching that they used the hunched over search animations, and the combat idle pose.

[grayman]

In state 3 they walk normally, but stand hunched forward, weapon raised. I don't think they need idle search animations layered on top of them when they're moving around like that. The new animations seem best used when the AI is standing in one place, because it makes the standing around less boring visually. This fits the guard/observer search roles, and the suspicious "stand still" pose.

[Springheel]

Fair enough.

 

In the future we can talk about whether we want AI standing in combat pose to have a couple random animations if they stand in one place for too long (I noticed Thief4 does that, and it looks pretty good), but that's for another day.