Arx: EoS fish

[VanishedOne]

As promised, here is the Arx: End of Sun fish set up as a wandering 'ambient' AI in TDM.

Download link

Remember to credit the EoS team if you use it (their asset licence is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported).

• It should work as randomly moving scenery. Anything else might work - I hit one with the blackjack and it bit back - or might not.
• EoS stopped its fish flying out of water with some custom code to allow a maximum flying height. In the absence of that, if you want to put one in open water all I can suggest is seeing whether a monsterclip 'ceiling' works.
• The AAS and scriptobject are from the Elemental, but the dimensions are taken straight from EoS; you may find the swim animation occasionally clips into the floor (presumably preventable with monsterclip if it's not sand/mud/etc.).
• This is the first AF/ragdoll I've made. I think I generally got rid of the bad behaviour, but fish are slippery creatures.
• Textures are in TGA format straight from EoS; you may want to convert non-normals to DDS before FM release. (Normal maps are actually unused by default; see .mtr for details.)

Edited April 1, 2020 by VanishedOne
Added note about unused normal map

[STRUNK]

Thanx! There is even a baked skin : )

I got them to break the game. When one explodes they get very angry!

https://streamable.com/z1slm

// Tried to explode the mine without killing a fish .. they still get angry and kill the game ... with less fish even.

//In water they behave the same.

Edited March 28, 2020 by STRUNK

[Amadeus]

2 minutes ago, STRUNK said:

I got them to break the game. When one explodes they get very angry!

 

Doing the lord's work. These should make bodies of water a lot more interesting. Thanks Vanished, can't wait to try this out myself

[VanishedOne]

Well, that was a short honeymoon.

I can reproduce the crash. Does setting "af_push_moveables" "0" on them help? (If not, try "mass" "6" as well.)

[STRUNK]

@VanishedOne

Unchecking "can search" seems to do the trick

[VanishedOne]

On its own? I'd already tried that but thought it hadn't worked.

Anyway, I'll update the download shortly with both spawnargs set in the def.

[STRUNK]

@VanishedOne

With af_push_moveables off it still crashes. Gonna try again with can search off.

[VanishedOne]

Maybe turning af_push_moveables off has just made my mine better at killing them all because they're no longer so good at pushing each other out of the way. With enough survivors I get a crash too, and assigning a search anim in the model decl doesn't prevent it.

Edit: updated download is live.

Edited March 28, 2020 by VanishedOne

[STRUNK]

@VanishedOne

I tried 4 times now with only can search off ... with 24 fish in water and 10 mines ... and they don't care and don't rush together.

[VanishedOne]

Thanks for the help. I imagine they might be missing something that the search internals expect; I didn't give them an AIUse value, for example, but they inherit visual and communication S/R so maybe they ought to have one.

[VanishedOne]

And I've discovered why my initial attempt to disable searching had no effect: the spawnarg is canSearch, not can_search as in can_drown or can_unlock. And I put the wrong one in the updated def, so I'll need to change the download again. Coming momentarily.

Edit: done.

Edited March 28, 2020 by VanishedOne

[grayman]

I can confirm that a monsterclip ceiling is required above open water to keep the fish from flying around in the air above.