Houseguest Scripting

Deter1UK

Scripting the movement and *especially* the timings.

I'll give an example of an initial trial movement script I just tried out for the new Houseguest in my Psyjic villa which is also our Guild house.

HG starts at bookcase n1 in library with transmute station - waits 10 secs
Walks to bookcase n2 - 3 secs
goes to transmute station looks at it -3 secs
back to bookcase n2 -10 secs
Walks upstairs along gallery to large bookcase n3 - 30 secs
walks back along gallery about halfway and looks down into great hall - 10 secs
walks hurriedly downstairs across hall into trophy room and examines stone tablets on table - 10 secs
goes around trophy room pausing here and there for a couple of secs at different exhibits
exits trophy room and returns to transmute station studies it - 30 secs

loop/Restart

That's a 2 minute script which is longer than most people will stare at an NPC for usually

Any visitor will get (I hope) a sense of searching for something - a sense of puzzlement - a sense of urgency.
(awaiting feedback from guildies on that)

That's as much as I can hope for really from an autotoon but I've done he same outside with a cat stalking a couple of chickens and it seems to work.

Hope that gives some ideas to play with