The Strange School

Hello Mr Strange

Regards the above I was thinking maybe there is a better way for me to go to build my game. Maybe I could forget all about trying to use UFPS and use another first person controller instead (such as Smart FP controller) that I can set up with health and ammo counters and hit detection on enemies using colliders all through PlayMaker FSM's?

I'm a 3D modeler so I can handle the weapon animation.

In fact I am thinking this is way easier, what do you think? Really appreciate your feedback.

UFPS has a lot of useful features and as Opsive have acquired it and they make Behavior Designer they could make it more non coder friendly. Behavior Designer already has support for managing AI armed enemies via UFPS although I would only make use of that much later.

Things that are useful for me is variety of first person movement the controller provides. The built in health and damage system. The decal system, weapon sway, muzzle flash and shell ejection. The on screen damage indicators, ammo and health pickups, all that could save me work. I would prefer not to use their weapon camera and make some of my own animations to deal with gun collision with walls, as well my own ammo reloading. But the rest is all good.

However as I said I have really no idea how UFPS works. As far as I can tell coders are expected to augment it using scripts for events initiating damage to AI and so on.

From your course I have a much better understanding of how to set up (non UFPS) player with weapon verses AI. However I would like to use UFPS considering I spent good money on it.

At the moment there are two things I would like to be able to do. The first is to display health from UFPS in my own health bar and the second is to display the ammo count from UFPS in my own ammo counter UI.

Hi Mr Strange
Still working my head around behavior trees and Boss and wondering how to do a weapon switch tree for a boss like attacking with hands then throwing bomb or flames/// i can't make it happen for some reason in my logic so maybe you want to share your experience as i'm sure it will be beneficial to a lot of people taking your course
Thanks

Ok thanks i will read your post in details and will try it.

although will be nice to have a better understanding of how to make a weapon switch inside BD

Hi Mr Strange. I haven't been doing any PlayMaker or BD lately. Spending my spare time making models. When I get back to doing my AI I may use PlayMaker rather than BD.

I am hoping you have been looking at UFPS. I would be happy to pay for a course in using it especially in concert with PlayMaker. Do you know if Opsive is going to make some major changes to it and when that version might be released?

Hey Strange,
Are you familiar with using a TPC controlled quadruped with Behavior Designer (and its Movement pack) for a basic attack and damage event/tree?

Hi Mr Strange. I have been using the Animation view in Unity to do weapon handling animations which I attached to a first person controller. I have tried triggering them using PlayMaker with poor results. Initially I tried using the animations from a base layer, then separate layers in the Animator which didn't work. Then I tried changing the animations to legacy and adding them to the Animation component on arms and a weapon. Apart from my animations not running from button presses properly nearly all the animations resulted in the arms and weapon being elevated above the controller. Would that be because I did not make the original animations at world center? Hope you can give me some clues.

Looks like I have got this sorted using animation made in my 3D program imported as FBX and changed to Legacy. Elevation problem largely gone, made the animations near 0,0,0.

Perhaps someone can suggest an answer to the following. How best to change the weapon and subsequent animations on my first person controller? To replace, on a button press, a gun for a blade.

OK I found a solution. As I was making all the weapon animations all I had to do was keep my second weapon behind the players view and switch it into the players hand when needed. All done in a 3D program, easier than I thought. I was thinking I needed a coding solution re destroying a game object and instancing a new new one, but in this case it was not needed.

Hi Mdot strange,

I need help with the project file for the behavior designer named comparison, I already installed the latest version of unity which is 5.6 & playmaker 1.8.4 where from my other previous course of playmaker this new version of unity cause issues for the older version of playmaker. When I play it states compiler errors, It's really hard to figure out by myself due to the sophistication of the fsm you made for the party monster. So can you please check comparison project file with the latest version of both unity & playmaker just to check if it runs on your side, thanks.

Hello Mr. Strange, do you have solution to use behavior to get multiple target in the same time?
for current video only introduce can see object to get only one target.
Please let us know the ideas.

thank you!

hi mr strange, in your behaviour ai video, the "can see" and "can hear" thing is not working. Its either one ..if i put the "can see" in the first order only the "can hear" works and vice versa. And i saw that your behaviour designer is a bit different than mine. Is it maybe mine is the new version and making the workaround not working?

Heyo M.dot.Strange!

First off, let me say that your tutorials are awesome - as a 20 year vet of the games industry, watching your Playmaker tutorials were awesome and very easy to pick up the tool. I've convinced several co-horts of mine to also purchase the tutorial so they could learn as well as we brave the fearsome Indie world.

So I'm going through your Behavior Designer tutorial and I'm noticing something interesting in vid. 15.

Upon Setting the Ranged Attack Stopping Distance, the enemy AI will use that distance to close on the player and then stop when that distance is met. The problem I'm seeing is that the Seek task has an Arrive distance set to 2.5 (from a prior video lesson) and the while the AI is stopping at his Stop-Distance range, the ranged attack does not fire until the player is within the Arrive Distance in the Seek Task. In fact, so long as the player remains within the Ranged Attack Stopping Distance (e.g. 8 units or less) but outside of the Arrival Distance in the Seek Task (e.g. 2.5), the AI stops in place until the player a) leaves the Stopping Distance range, b) the player closes in under the Seek's Arrival Distance range, or c) the Wait timer running parallel to the Seek task runs out (in which the behavior tree triggers an attack sequence fail and returns back to patrol).

As an FYI, I'm using the following vesions:
- Unity 2017.1.1f1
- Playmaker 1.8.4
- Behavior Designer 1.5.11
- Behavior Designer Movement Pack 1.5.4

Any ideas?

- J

Hi Mr Strange, been a while. I have been looking at your bonus tutorials on hash tables and arrays and trying to see how I might be able to use them for an rewards screen. Your tutorials are about placing items on the canvas in the current scene only.

I am making a 2d fight game. When a player defeats an opponent in a level she is given a trophy (brass, silver or gold). I want to send that trophy to a separate scene listing that achievement. It needs to go to specific ui image position, in the sequence of played levels.

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Hope you can help, Regards Charles