10. NPC Traffic Patterns
27 views · Published 13 August 2015 · 1:01 · Indexed 12 October 2026
Channel: Scopique's Bunch 'o Stuff · 2015 · Gaming
There are at least 4 types of NPCs in Project Universe: Merchants, Police, Miners, and Pirates. In this video, we see three of the four. Merchants: Red game objects that appear at jumpgates, dock at stations, and leave through jumpgates Police: Blue game objects that patrol between the "populated" nodes such as stations and jumpgates Miners: Green game objects that spend most of their time at a "home" asteroid, occasionally docking at a station to unload cargo before returning to work. This example has four issues: First, the police don't normally follow one another. The random node order apparently wasn't that random for this test. Second, the police are too close to the nodes before they alter their direction so it looks like they're bouncing off the node game object. Third, turning isn't all that smooth. And fourth, one of the miners doesn't stay at his asteroid after returning from the station.
