Giving an NPC Memory

Entity memory

NPCs can remember other entities in two ways:

Enemies

An NPC's combat memory is managed by the CAI_Enemies class.

Todo: Document it.

UpdateEnemyMemory( CBaseEntity *pEnemy, const Vector &position, CBaseEntity *pInformer )

ClearEnemyMemory()

SetEnemyOccluder(CBaseEntity *pBlocker)

Unreachable

RememberUnreachable( CBaseEntity *pEntity, float duration = -1 )

Causes the NPC to ignore the entity for the specified number of seconds. -1 means the AI's default, which is usually 3 seconds.

IsUnreachable(CBaseEntity *pEntity)

Test reachability.

Memory Bits

Memory bits are flags which relate to the NPC's current state (for example, bits_MEMORY_SUSPICIOUS and bits_MEMORY_FLINCHED). See game/server/ai_basenpc.h for a full list.

Remember(int iMemory)

Forget(int iMemory)

Set/remove a particular bit.

HasMemory(int iMemory)

HasAllMemories(int iMemory)

Check whether one or more memory bits are set.

CAI_SchedulesManager::GetMemoryID(const char *state_name)

Modify this function to add support for extra memory bits in schedule definitions. You shouldn't need to call it yourself.

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