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Patrols

Patrols are used by guards in stealth, and civilians to walk between fixed points and perform certain animations.

To start with creating a patrol, make sure you have your pawn spawn set up. You can do so with a SBZPawnSpawnPredefined.

Next, add a BP_LA_Scripted_Patrol to your scene (the positioning does not matter). You can then link this blueprint actor to your pawn spawn like this:

pawn-spawn.png

Now you can edit the patrol points and their life actions on the scripted patrol actor. By default, the scripted patrol has two LifeActionSlots. You can add more, and they should be named in incremental numbers. patrolpoints.png

LifeActionSlots have a bunch of properties you can tweak. Most important are:

  • Tag: the animation the character will play (waiting, smoking, scrolling on phone)
    Pick any under AI.LA.Civilians.*.
  • Duration: you can either set a fixed duration or a random duration in a range
    This defines how long the character will spend in the LifeAction
  • Cooldown: unknown
  • Acceptable radius/angle: recommended to enable this, it should allow characters to start the life action early when they can’t quite reach the exact point/angle specified

Escort Points​

When you get caught in a private area, a guard should escort you to the nearest escort point. Simply place a SBZEscortPoint at the exits to your public area.