I've been working on the Summer Palace area, ...

May 09, 2003 by Adam in NWN1

I've been working on the Summer Palace area, getting the attacking elves to start from their boats and work their way to the center. Reinforcements come when they die, so I ended up combining testing of that and the cannon by shooting them as they emerged from their leaf boat. It had me laughing out loud, though I did feel vaguely guilty.

The assault is going pretty well. When it works, it works beautifully, with the elves doing some complex pathfinding and behaviors. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced it always works. More testing required.

I'm also working on the defenders, hoping to get some of their AI done today. I'm thinking of giving the attackers and defenders a limited number of respawns, each time going to the right place to continue the fight. We'll see how it goes.