Universal Relations - NPC, player and LVS relationship editor

Universal Relations

Decide who is friend and who is foe - for every NPC base, for players and for LVS vehicles, all in one graph. (Formerly LVS AI Fix - everything it did is still here.)

Relationship editor

• A graph of everything that can fight: LVS teams, Players, VJ classes, ZBase and DrGBase factions, spawn menu categories, whole bases (all VJ, all ZBase, all DrGBase NPCs) and single NPCs.
• Everything is loaded automatically from your installed NPCs, single NPCs can be added from a searchable list.
• Link two boxes with the mouse: green allies, red enemies, white neutral (they ignore each other).
• Drag a box out and back onto itself: a loop that sets how its own members treat each other (for example: all VJ NPCs are allies).
• Works between any bases: VJ Base, ZBase, DrGBase, Half-Life 2 NPCs and LVS vehicles. The most specific link wins: single NPC, class, faction, category, base.
• Rules apply right away, also to NPCs that spawn later, and the bases cannot override them. Remove a link and the NPCs go back to their usual behaviour.
• Tabs split a big setup into smaller scenes that all work at once.
• Four layouts (star, columns, grid, rows), move boxes freely, zoom and pan.
• Presets: save, load and share them as a code.
• Saved on the server, only the host or a superadmin can edit.

LVS AI fixes

• LVS AI sees and fights VJ Base, ZBase and DrGBase NPCs and NextBots, and they see and fight LVS vehicles.
• LVS AI cars and tanks no longer drive into deep water or off cliffs.
• LVS AI respects ai_ignoreplayers.
• LVS vehicles fight back against NPCs that attack them.

For NPC authors

ENT.LVSTeam = 1 (0 - 3) or the VJ class "CLASS_LVS_TEAM1" puts an NPC into an LVS team.

Settings

Utilities - Universal Relations - Settings. The editor opens with the "Relationship editor" button or the console command universal_relations. Console lvs_aifix_debug: look at an NPC to see its groups and how it treats everyone around it.

LVS features need LVS Base. VJ Base, ZBase and DrGBase are optional.

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