Emerald AI Integration

[jrackley]

Edit by Invector: 

Official Emerald AI v2.0 Integration > [HERE]

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If anyone is interested or wants to know, I have Emerald AI working with Invector melee 2.0c at the moment, Animals are able to apply damage to player and vise versa. The only thing I have left to figure out at the moment is how to check that the player is blocking(unable to block animal attacks ATM). Once I get that worked out I will post how I got them to work together(Hopefully not too hacky, LOL!).



Step 1 - Open up the Emerald_Animal_AI.cs file and somewhere around line 2993 you will see currentAnimal.SendMessage(SendMessageForPlayerDamage, attackDamage);

comment that out and add the following underneath of it...
//Bridge for Invector Tpc Melee Combat (Allows for Animals to apply damage to Invector player) var playerInput = currentAnimal.GetComponent<vMeleeCombatInput> ();
var _damage = new Damage(attackDamage);

_damage.sender = currentAnimal.transform;
_damage.hitPosition = currentAnimal.transform.position;

if (!playerInput.blockInput.GetButton ())
{
currentAnimal.GetComponent<vCharacter>().TakeDamage (_damage, true);
}

Step 2 - Open up vMeleeAttackObject.cs and find the method ApplyDamage around line 123. After the if statement and before the else if add the following...

// Bridge to Apply Damage to Emerald AI Animals with Weapons
if (other.gameObject.GetComponent<Emerald_Animal_AI>())
{
other.gameObject.GetComponent<Emerald_Animal_AI>().Damage((int)_damage.value);
}
Also in the Emerald_Animal_AI.cs do not forget to add "using Invector" to the top.
Please do not hesitate to show me any better way to do this, but this is a working integration(my first!!!) hope you enjoy.
Also thank you to @invector for the help on getting the damage to apply when I was stuck!

[jrackley]

Okay I think I have the blocking working now, running some tests and then I will post how I integrated for anyone interested. Please take into account that I am not the best coder and some of you guys may be able to clean it up some hopefully? (At least it is a working base to go with) Anyhow I will post again very soon with the code changes.

[tharindu]

Mar 15, 2017 22:32:29 GMT jrackley said:

Okay I think I have the blocking working now, running some tests and then I will post how I integrated for anyone interested. Please take into account that I am not the best coder and some of you guys may be able to clean it up some hopefully? (At least it is a working base to go with) Anyhow I will post again very soon with the code changes.

If you could post a video I would more than appreciate. I am torn between Emerald and ICE and a tutorial as this could help me decide what to purchase. 

[jrackley]

I have both myself, and I will say that while ICE has a lot more features to offer, Emerald is way easier to use for sure. I will get a vid up hopefully this afternoon sometime for you, I need do purchase some animal sounds today. As far as integration goes as well I found emerald to be a little easier, although I didn't really try to integrate ICE very hard, mostly just hacked it together and then decided to use Emerald instead. You can do a lot of really complex AI with ICE, but if you just need some solid basic animal AI then emerald is great.

[Deleted]

Im interested in this as well, been thinking about getting emerald AI, wonder how it would work with Invector.

[jrackley]

Okay gonna sit down and add these sounds real quick and then post a short video and give the details on how to implement for everyone. Give me about an hour or so.

[jrackley]

Okay video is uploading and will post as soon as it is done, but in the mean time here is how I was able to integrate Emerald and Invector to work together. Please feel free to use and suggest any better ways that you may come up with, again I am not the best coder, but you learn by doing and letting others show you improvements that can be made!

[jrackley]

Here is a sample vid. Please keep in mind that the bears are pretty much all default settings and I didn't really tweak them for attack speeds and what not. Also this has Chronicmans quest system being used in it as well to show them working together.

[TheGreatMP]

Hey there i was wondering if you figured out how to damage the player while he is blocking? thanks in advance

[TheGreatMP]

I've also managed to figure out the damage while the player is blocking but i cant access the UI and activate the sounds when you block an attack. any help?

[jrackley]

Apr 5, 2017 16:05:54 GMT TheGreatMP said:

I've also managed to figure out the damage while the player is blocking but i cant access the UI and activate the sounds when you block an attack. any help?

Honestly I never checked that part of it. I will look into it today when I get some time and see what I can do.

[thegreatmp]

Any luck trying to access it?

[kevios]

hello i have a problem with the integration...
i do exact all what you write, but i get this faildure:

NullReferenceException:
Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs(3298,50): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `vMeleeCombatInput' could not be found. Are you missing `Invector.CharacterController' using directive?

And this Error:
Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs(3304,9): error CS0103: The name `playerInput' does not exist in the current context

when i comment this out from you integration:
if (!playerInput.blockInput.GetButton ())

AND
var playerInput = currentAnimal.GetComponent<vMeleeCombatInput> ();

i get no error but when a animal attak me i get no damage and when i attak a animal he get no damage too....
And in the Console in unity it come this:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Emerald_Animal_AI+<AttackDelay>c__Iterator1.MoveNext () (at Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs:3306)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (IEnumerator enumerator, IntPtr returnValueAddress) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Coroutines.cs:17)

what i doing false can you help me maybe pls?
anything must be wrong and i dont find the faildure... :(

[jrackley]

Jul 2, 2017 22:17:31 GMT kevios said:

hello i have a problem with the integration...
i do exact all what you write, but i get this faildure:

NullReferenceException:
Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs(3298,50): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `vMeleeCombatInput' could not be found. Are you missing `Invector.CharacterController' using directive?

And this Error:
Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs(3304,9): error CS0103: The name `playerInput' does not exist in the current context

when i comment this out from you integration:
if (!playerInput.blockInput.GetButton ())

AND
var playerInput = currentAnimal.GetComponent<vMeleeCombatInput> ();

i get no error but when a animal attak me i get no damage and when i attak a animal he get no damage too....
And in the Console in unity it come this:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Emerald_Animal_AI+<AttackDelay>c__Iterator1.MoveNext () (at Assets/Emerald AI/Scripts/Emerald AI/Emerald_Animal_AI.cs:3306)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (IEnumerator enumerator, IntPtr returnValueAddress) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Runtime/Export/Coroutines.cs:17)

what i doing false can you help me maybe pls?
anything must be wrong and i dont find the faildure... :(

Give me a few and I will update the code above to go with the newest version of Invector, the above was for an earlier version

[kevios]

oh ok thank you very very much this would be perfect *-*