best way to force breath strafe attacks? : V

» Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:52 pm

I want to increase the frequency of dragons doing strafe breath attacks as opposed to hover attacks. One option I want to try is to script it.

Anyone know if simply calling "cast" while the dragon is in flyby mode will work?

(I can detect the flyby now, so I think I just want to just call the casting of the breath spell at that time.)

Other options:

Play idle ? I think there may be an ideal animation for this.

Combat style? This may be the best way if the Combat style for dragons has this as a setting. I guess I will try this first once I get home tonight.

Put a dynamic (script controlled or random number or whatever) condition on the hover animation so the dragon cannot use it?

This would have the effect of increasing the strafe attacks...I think.

» Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:40 am

dragonbehavior.hkx is pretty complex but it looks like sending the 'shoutStart' event when the dragon is flying by should cause it to use its breath attack.

As for the hovering I think editing the combat style should suffice. If not you could add some conditions to the animation in Gameplay -> Animations -> DragonBehavior -> ActionHoverStart.