I hadn't thought to just set a timer for some reason.  Durr.  Sight and sound might be interesting to mess with sometime, but I think for my current purposes considering an enemy idle 12 seconds after the last time AIF_ATTACKING or AIF_RUNNING was set is sufficient.

For the sake of documentation, since you mentioned a few, are there any other flags that aren't enumerated in the scripting engine that you're aware of?

Thanks for the insight.

Been working on a scope for the pulse rifle:



Functionally it's the same as beam mode, but with a focused ball of energy with no trail.

Also got damage flash working when scoped.  Things are starting to come together.

Realized I was accidentally spawning 2 scopes (implemented as particles) per frame instead of 1 (forgot to account for OnTick() getting called twice per tick for weapons).  Turns out doubling up on particles had been obscuring an issue where firing an arrow would eat one of the scope particles for a frame (the redundant particle was covering for the missing one).  This wasn't very noticeable with mostly opaque scope elements (only the filtered edges would flicker slightly), but once I started adding translucent bits it resulted in a really visible jump in opacity when firing.

So I decided to try using a model instead of a particle for the scope.  It took a while to get alpha blending to work, but after fiddling with material properties for a while I thought I finally had it working properly.

Then this happened: https://imgur.com/a/K0s0z

I hate everything.

Already had a modified pulse rifle select anim, and didn't really like the other two.  Sorry.

I'm curious though, do you have some kind of process for doing this? I'm totally willing to go through a lot of bullshit to get the nodes working, cause I had a lot of other guns I wanted to animate properly.

I implemented kaisers model format notes as C++ data structures.  They can load and save models, and I've been gradually adding some general-purpose functions, but for model-specific changes I write a dedicated function and recompile the program.  Not terribly efficient, but it hasn't been bad enough yet to drive me to research GUI libraries. :b

Can fireseed import skeletal meshes properly?  Converting from T2 to T1 is pretty generic functionality.  I could maybe put together a reasonably user-friendly T2->T1 command line tool.