Problems with the characters' AI

[DoctorRuina]

Hi friends! I always have problems with the characters' AI. For example, many times the characters stand there like fools or try to move away to throw a projectile and fail. How can I make them launch their projectiles at melee range?

[stumpy]

Is this with FFvt3R? If so, my recollection is that IG made a change when they released the game that set a minimum distance for using ranged attacks. It was much complained about and we discovered a fix in scripting. The fix was setting

import ff
ff.RANGED_MIN = 0.5

in one of the startup files.

If you install FFX, this will be set up for you. (FFX does this in System/localinit.py, if you are looking to do this without FFX.)

[DoctorRuina]

Thanks for the quick response, stumpy. Yes, I use FFvt3R. And I have installed FFX too. But I don't see this command in localinit.py. Should I write it there?

[oktokels]

Hi friends! I always have problems with the characters' AI. For example, many times the characters stand there like fools or try to move away to throw a projectile and fail. How can I make them launch their projectiles at melee range?

Can you post the AI code of the character here to take a look at it?

[stumpy]

Doc, maybe open the localinit.py you are using and post the contents? That will help determine what it needs. Also, post the full path of that file. It's possible it's not in the right spot or it's being ignored for some reason. Mine has those two lines I posted, though it has other lines between them. I don't recall if mine is the default that we included with FFX or if I customized it.

[DoctorRuina]

Hi friends! I always have problems with the characters' AI. For example, many times the characters stand there like fools or try to move away to throw a projectile and fail. How can I make them launch their projectiles at melee range?

Can you post the AI code of the character here to take a look at it?

Thanks oktokels! These problems usually happen to me with all characters.. I want to learn how to do AI well to solve all these problems.

[DoctorRuina]

This is my localinit.py

#
# IGA system initialisation file
#
import js
import ff
ff.Language = 'English'
ff.AI_STEADY_EP_THRESHOLD = -1.0
# Startup Plugins Importer; info in the StartupPlugins folder
try:
    import startupplugins
except:
    pass

[stumpy]

I would try adding

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ff.RANGED_MIN = 0.5right below the "THRESHOLD" line.

[DoctorRuina]

Thanks a lot, stumpy. I think that with this the way the game works has changed.