Ai goal actbusy queue

Entity Description

Todo: Move the description from Actbusy, perhaps?

Keyvalues

• Template:Kv targetname
• actor

<target_name_or_class> Actor(s) to affect - NPC's that should act busy.

• StartActive

<choices> Start Active

• SearchType

<choices> Search Type - How to search for the entities using the targetname.

• busysearchrange

<float> Search Range for Busy Hints

• visibleonly

<choices> Visible Busy Hints Only

• node_exit

<target_destination> Exit Node - The name of the node the first NPC in the queue should move to when he leaves the head of the queue.

• node01-20

<target_destination> Node 1-20 - The name of the nth actbusy hint node in the queue.

• mustreachfront

<choices> Must Reach Front - If true, NPCs much reach the front node in the queue before they're allowed to leave the queue.

Inputs

• Template:I targetname
• Activate

Begin acting busy.

• Deactivate

Cease acting busy.

• ForceNPCToActBusy

<Targetname> <hint node targetname> <optional:teleport> <optional:$customactivityorsequence> <maximum time to actbusy> Force an NPC to act busy. If no hint node targetname is specified, it'll search for a random one. If no max time is specified, it'll use the default. Specifying 0 as the max time will make the NPC act busy until disturbed. If the optional teleport parameter is specified, the NPC will teleport to the act busy point. A custom move animation can be specified by prepending $ to the name of it. i.e. $ACT_RUN will make the NPC Run. Sequence names can be used instead of activities.

• ForceThisNPCToActBusy

<string> Force an NPC outputted from another entity to act busy. Only usable from an output that specifies an entity.

• ForceThisNPCToLeave

<string> Force an NPC outputted from another entity to find a HINT_NPC_EXIT_POINT hintnode and vanish.

• MoveQueueUp

Force the queue to move up, sending the front-most NPC out of the queue.

• PlayerStartedBlocking

<float> Tell the queue manager that the player has started blocking a spot in the queue.

• PlayerStoppedBlocking

<float> Tell the queue manager that the player has stopped blocking a spot in the queue.

• SetBusySearchRange

<float> Update the busy search range for all actors.

Outputs

• OnNPCStartedBusy

<string> Fired when an NPC targeted by this goal starts an ActBusy animation.

• OnNPCFinishedBusy

<string> Fired when an NPC targeted by this goal finishes an ActBusy.

• OnNPCLeft

<string> Fired when an NPC target by this goal finishes a forced Leave.

• OnNPCStartedLeavingQueue

<string> Fired when the NPC at the head of the queue starts to leave. The activator is the NPC, and the string is the name of the NPC.

• OnNPCLeftQueue

<string> Fired when the NPC at the head of the queue leaves. The activator is the NPC, and the string is the name of the NPC.

• OnQueueMoved

<float> Fired when the queue moves. Outputs the number of NPCs left in the queue.

• Template:O targetname

See Also

• Actbusy