Does anyone know how to set tasks for peds? Like telling them to do certain things?

Does anyone know how to set tasks for peds? Like telling them to do certain things?

You can use Ped.Tasks.<task>, but there are plenty more tasks than what are provided with the RAGE Hook. I use natives for most of my tasks, as a large amount of tasks, such as attacking peds or fleeing, aren't included in Ped.Tasks. You can use the GTA V Native DB, and expand the "AI" section, and find the tasks you want.

Example, to make a ped flee from the player, use the following (taken from the native db):

void TASK_REACT_AND_FLEE_PED(Ped ped, Ped fleeTarget)

The native db shows the parameters, and the name of the native. You'd then use this information to do the following:

 

Rage.Native.NativeFunction.CallByName<uint>("TASK_REACT_AND_FLEE_PED", <yourfleeingped>, Rage.Game.LocalPlayer.Character);

Hopefully this was pretty simple, I'm not the best at explaining things. Taking a look at that native db will be really useful.

 

Edited July 30, 201510 yr by Straysify
Added native db link

Thanks! That was a big help! @Straysify could you help me with one more thing? I have not figured out how to get a ped to do an animation.

Edited July 30, 201510 yr by nicedude80

Thanks! That was a big help! @Straysify could you help me with one more thing? I have not figured out how to get a ped to do an animation.

Check out the animations list in the Rage documentation: http://docs.ragepluginhook.net/html/62951c37-a440-478c-b389-c471230ddfc5.htm

And the PlayAnimation function of TaskInvoker: http://docs.ragepluginhook.net/html/4DB19EAA.htm

And a basic code example... 

(This is very rough, you'll want to add error checking and what not. And my project is in VB.NET, I've translated it into C#, so my C# syntax might be rusty)

Ped myPed = new Ped("ModelName", SpawnPoint);

if (myPed != null)
{
    if (myPed.Exists)
    {
        // Make the ped walk like he is drunk
        AnimationSet animSet = new AnimationSet("move_m@drunk@verydrunk");
        animSet.LoadAndWait();
        myPed.MovementAnimationSet = animSet;
        
        // Playing an animation
        // The list of hyperlinks on the Rage Anim list page is a list of Anim Dictionaries
        // Each one has a set of animation names underneath it
        // "amb@world_human_bum_standing@drunk@idle_a" is the dictionary name
        // And "idle_a" is the anim name
        // I'm not exactly sure how blend speed (not anim speed, but apparently its the speed that the anim blends in) affects anything, but I just set it to 1
        // Anim flags tells GTA to loop the anim, or ragdoll the ped when something hits it, etc.
        // The object browser or Rage docs can tell you all the AnimationFlags

        myPed.Tasks.PlayAnimation(New AnimationDictionary("amb@world_human_bum_standing@drunk@idle_a"), "idle_a", 1f, AnimationFlags.RagdollOnCollision);
    }
}

 

If it works the way I think it does (haven't tested to verify, I'm basing this off of experience with other things using animation blending) low values like 0.1 would make the animation blend more slowly (and possibly extend duration of the overall animation, not sure how that works completely in GTA V) and values like 10 would pretty much get rid of noticeable blending and sort of snap between animations.

Unless there's good reason it's probably best to leave it at 1 like you did.

Edited August 24, 201510 yr by goigle

You can use Ped.Tasks.<task>, but there are plenty more tasks than what are provided with the RAGE Hook. I use natives for most of my tasks, as a large amount of tasks, such as attacking peds or fleeing, aren't included in Ped.Tasks. You can use the GTA V Native DB, and expand the "AI" section, and find the tasks you want.

Example, to make a ped flee from the player, use the following (taken from the native db):

void TASK_REACT_AND_FLEE_PED(Ped ped, Ped fleeTarget)

The native db shows the parameters, and the name of the native. You'd then use this information to do the following:

 

Rage.Native.NativeFunction.CallByName<uint>("TASK_REACT_AND_FLEE_PED", <yourfleeingped>, Rage.Game.LocalPlayer.Character);

Hopefully this was pretty simple, I'm not the best at explaining things. Taking a look at that native db will be really useful.

 

Can you show the context as to how this would look in a complete script? I tried pasting it into the callout example verbatim and it crashed.