Floor plan: First level (plus some thoughts on NPC movement)

[FiannaG]

Hi all, I drew up an incredibly rough floor plan in Marmoset Hexels 2:

Here's a little guide to what things represent:

• Blue dot: Player starting position
• Brown lines: Walls/inaccessible space
• Green lines: NPC path ways
• Dark green dots: Something (invisible object or a variable within the enemy) that when hit, tells the enemy that they need to change direction
• Light yellow dot: The first object the player must acquire
• Darker yellow dot: Where the player must take the first object
• Room on the left: Empty, basically hiding space, where you can wait for the NPC to change their path

I designed the room with NPC movement in mind. While I've not much experience with Unreal and others in the group were looking into player movement, I came up with a vague concept we could use:

• Let's say the dark green dots are an invisible, un-collidable object with a unique number attached to them to differentiate (i.e greendot.ID = 0, greendot.ID = 1, greendot.ID = 2 etc)
• When the enemy is created, assign them a variable to note whether they're walking to or from their spawn point (i.e npc.WalkingToSpawn = false), which green dot to walk to (i.e npc.WalkTo = 1) and how many green dots in total the NPC must hit before turning back to spawn (i.e npc.TotalMoves = 2)
• Decide how/where the NPC walks depending on those first two variables (i.e if npc.WalkingToSpawn == true else..... if npc.WalkTo == 1 then self.y = self.y + 5 etc)
• Once the NPC collides with a green dot, npc.WalkTo changes and the NPC knows to change their movement, etc
• After the NPC has hit their TotalMoves, set npc.WalkingToSpawn to true and basically repeat above so they get back

Something like this:

If people have other ideas, that's fine and I'm interested in hearing them. Just wanted to try and help create a starting point for us! Hope I haven't overly complicated what I'm trying to show here but it should be fairly simple

[JT14064340]

I have created a basic 3d model of the floorplan as outlined here

Here is the model in .fbx and .obj format. floorplan2.zip

[14032341EJ]

NPC set movement worked on, used splines and managed to get it working but was told of a different and maybe much easier way of getting smoother NPC set movement. Will look into these waypoint things. x