Unsolved 3, 2, 1, GO! "Ai engages at set parameters"

Is this going to be possible? I have a bit of coding experience and know how to write this logically but I don't know if the game will be responsive.

My plan has been to make a level and use AI as the stars for videos. Now I want more than the usual, "here's a car smashing into another car, like and subscribe and give me money." So an INTRO that is automated - thus controlled consistency - something along the lines of;

Countdown lights animation plays, after 10 seconds, activate current ai mode.

Code:

for(%countDown = 0; %countDown< 3; %countDown++)
{
    echo(%countDown);
}

Or a while,

}

Code:

while(%countDown<= 3)
{
   echo("Almost ready!");
   %count++;
}
}

As I see it that should work fine, but I'm not sure about setting a countdown STARTER - could probably just command console it - and then inside either the for/while loops just have the "if it has done it's thing, then AI START DOING YOURS!" but that's where I don't yet know where to go with this, or how to find the necessary commands.

 

you cannot do loops to wait because you will block everything else, Lua is single threaded.
if you need to wait you can use one of the function that get called really often and count (bad explanation)

Here is a sample code (it's incomplete and will need modification to work)

Code:

local M = {}

local logTag = "myScenario"
local running = false
local timer = 0

local function onScenarioRestarted()
    running = false
   timer = 0
end

local function onScenarioLoaded() --get the map object you want to interract with or the init the AI
    log('I', logTag, "onScenarioLoaded called")
    mylights = scenetree.findObject("mylights1")
end

local function onRaceStart()
    running = true
end

-- called every 250ms. use `updateGFX` if you need high frequency/better resolution
local function onRaceTick(raceTickTime)
    if not running then
        return true
    end
    timer = timer + raceTickTime

    if timer > 10 and not activatedAI then
        --foobar()
    end
end


M.onScenarioRestarted = onScenarioRestarted
M.onScenarioLoaded    = onScenarioLoaded
M.onRaceStart         = onRaceStart
M.onRaceResult        = onRaceResult

M.onRaceTick = onRaceTick

return M

 

Holy crap porty!! I'll need time to dissect that as my first run through doesn't make sense of it fully, but thank you so much for taking the time!!
--- Post updated ---
Pretty certain I'll have to look into creating scenarios afterall haha!

 

i think your best bet is play one scenario and look at the code to understand what happen backstage.
you can still ask more question here or in a new subject

 

Thank you again, I'll load up utah and take a look at those as there were camera angles and other things I was interested in there. *cheers!

 

It's a fake multi-threading as it use coroutines
I don't think that library will work nicely with luajit

Coroutines are already available in game and there is a module written to simplify the use of it.

Code:

local initDB = extensions.core_jobsystem.wrap(function(job)
    --...
   job.yield()
   --...
end, 0.5)