Star Citizen Live Gamedev: Mission Maker, Part II

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go live bringing up like privileged internal teams chats like oh I gotta show you something when we're like nine seconds away from going live hi everybody welcome to Star Citizen live uh Mission maker part two uh I'm your host well not really not this week this is your host hi I'm Elliott mobile what do you do Elliot Moby uh I'm a lead designer who makes missions and uh this is part two we've never done a part two SEO uh last last week we did one of our Game Dev episodes where we sit with
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a developer and we watched them work uh for an hour and normally uh people just you know you know like they do what they can within the course of an hour and then you know we get to the end of the hour it's like okay that's it um you know this is this is what you can make in an hour you know you know and it's it's it's good to Showcase a process but it's not like a good result usually because again it's only an hour um Elliott fell way behind uh uh our our estimations and what every other developer that's ever done this and barely got halfway through um the first half of his work um because he took over the show hosting uh which was fine because I didn't want to do it that week and I'm not complaining
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wow how are we doing Dave pretty good so good really good so this week uh we're going to continue we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna pick up where we left off uh I wanna stress that Elliot has done no work on this between this Friday and last Friday he's done no work at all in the last week really uh we're gonna talk about that in a different meeting but he's definitely not touched any aspect of this since yesterday everything is exactly where we left off so if the Mission Works uh he was doing a good job last week and the mission doesn't work there won't be a part three I promise because I'm going to Gamescom next week so Elliot say yes hello yes uh we got music underneath to drown out the
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pregnant pauses right that's Pete yeah uh we're gonna turn it over to Elliot and uh he's gonna pick up where we left off Elliot hello where we live off so uh the last thing we did we're on the wrong camera on the wrong camera David thank you hello uh so uh last week um we finished off uh we made the module that tells the ship to spawn and populates it full of people and then he's making him actual main module where you are going to be sent to get void dude knock them out and then deliver them um we set up a bunch of them at that main logic but just hadn't finished it in time uh so we're gonna continue on from there
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and then hopefully we'll be able to get this done make the mission record which is one of the next steps which is how you guys would see the mission and then from there I would play the game test it make sure it works uh iterate and so on and so forth so I'll jump into my logic all right cool so this was the very last thing I did which was the on object entered which if anyone remembers this is where when the player has scanned and found the ship they have now entered the ship so then what I put on their hood is like locate and subdue void dude and then we make sure that they can see that objective and then um see that sort of Hud and then we start proximity tracker the proximity tracker was the imperfect solution where
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I we we don't have FPS scanning in the Pu so and I don't want to just mark them straight away so what I'm going to do is I'm going to wait until you're about 10 meters from them to then Mark them and we might do something in the future where we we um you know I have a detection where if they've see see if they see you if void dude sees you then it also adds the marker just to kind of help that along so you don't accidentally shoot the person you meant to subdue um cool so one thing next I needed to do was and the other one I think I send some modular AI spawn or cool cool just checking everything remembering who I am I haven't touched this in like a week so
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I'm I'm also trying to remember where I was oh hold on go back to go back to bank uh we apparently didn't record the intro for the YouTube version so uh hi I'm me that's him and we started in the middle of the thing continue okay cool so we have the object entered uh now I just need to set up the stuff for the air the proximity tracker so when the proximity tracker tells me that it's done which is on entered range so when the proxy the proximity tracker is tag is
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triggered I'm gonna check to see if the person who triggered it is a mission player is a mission player voila and I want to check that the tracked object which is how I put the variables in on object entered the tracked object is the players and the reference is the target can you zoom in on that at all no like what's basketball doing the center screen does it zoom in doesn't zoom in nope no this is it can zoom out is that better can everyone read that no that's as far and as we consume this tool was built before we had 4K monitors therefore it doesn't support 4K so you either have to get really close to the screen or have just really good eyes one of the two um we'll put that on the feature request
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list it's already on there the objective market so next up I can see the rare thread Serge you didn't have 4K monitors till when Mission people who work in text didn't have 4K money yeah we don't need 4K mods this this is not beautiful you don't get to see this grid this is what I have to look at it doesn't have to be beautiful all photographs are beautiful true well that's not true actually I've seen some really nasty flow graphs you want to see uh because uh because I'm pretty sure we'll close look at look at this look at this so that all of these here this is all of Siege Verizon and if I was to open this up you see how I can't click this because
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it's loading it there's so much stuff in here it has all of these functions everything and this this is only a spit that handles a small part of it and inside of them all of the graphs are absolutely absolutely huge I've got a which is my horrible one so so this we're building this obviously we're only a couple minutes into this week's show but if you watched last week's show it's this is one Siege of War this is one aspect of Siege of Wars up here on the left so so this this is this is one module this is all the information that I listen to on Siege Verizon and the all these modules have about the same amount of information in them just so I can ensure that like every aspect covered that every single thing in Siege of right so so when everyone plays Siege
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Verizon oh yeah you know it's it's somewhat pretty simple you've got no the thing took me seven months not simple um I've even there's even a graph that just like when you're on it it lags when you move around because of the amount of nodes that are on it and it's mainly because we've never had anything with that amount of nodes before so it it exposed performance issue in the tour anyway away from Siege away from my lifelong work to a much simpler mission that we're building today yeah exactly an easy one uh so the players entered the range of void so now I need to Mark void do to be killed so I am going to put in the string which is subdue and deliver sub thing too and then uh targets cool
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and then I'm gonna align that to the this thing here which is the objective and I'm going to set true so basically what this is happening when the player gets close enough to void I'm going to Mark void uh there was one thing I noticed when I was clicking about in my functions which was this uh nope this so where I set something up just to let you know how how we think I set this up last episode Target tag provided this is if so this is where we start thinking about how the designers work so if the designer has given me a Target uh I need to always take that however if they've not given me a Target I'd pick randomly so for example what I do in the pre-init so this is before it has all started I'm gonna drop down a global
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function that already exists that we built a while back which is spawn description has identified tags um I'm going to set it to be any Gabriel wolf says is there a Grappler how many times you've complained about the graph editor it's just a circle it's just a never-ending work on Mission complain about Mission release Mission design Mission work on Mission so far that's everything cool right so set Boolean so what I'm gonna do is I am going to check if the NPC NPCs populate which is the record that the design is going to provide me that contains the NPCs has an identifier tag
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targets Target there you go and I'm gonna go through I think it was funny sleeping tight perfect so then if it does if if the target tag has been provided to me by the designer who used this because it isn't just going to be me who uses this stuff because it's all modular um if they provided me this then I can filter my logic differently so now for example I'm not going to do it here but like if I when I'm building this stuff for wider use by other people what I then do is I'd then go and build a random system that will randomly pick out a Target because if they've not specified it to me then they'll want me to just choose random because they don't care like these are sort of like the cases where you'll have in the future where we want to build a bespoke boss encounter so like where we spawn Mendo or Remy and Siege they'd be bespoke so
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that's where we'd want to care about where they are um or who they are or what their entity is and that's what this this sort of stuff was for kill um next stop so we've got uh so next up what I do is as assess because again what I have to do is I build this and then I've got to test it so I'm going to make sure that I think everything's here that we do so I'll I'll run through and I'll assess everything I've done so I set the the module location so it only streams in when stuff I care about exists I start the occupied ship spawner I get the location object container I create my objectives I Mark the location I create my hood I fill it for that when the location is loaded in I fill up my action area so I don't get crushed by a mint leaf sailor zero zero says hi question why do
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we need to know all this thank you uh you don't watching the show is optional so I've registered my action area when the player enters my action area I check if my empty track is empty I make sure and if so because if the tag is not provided then I don't I don't need to if the tag is provided the Mark is already on the Target so I won't have taken the mark away if the target isn't there I will check to see if it's a mission player remove remove the marker that's telling them to go to the location and make sure that the correct text is on the screen perfect however going through this it looks like either I didn't make it or it didn't save the on exit callback at the location action
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area so that would be a quick one to make I was gonna say I thought you missed it earlier but I was taking a nap during the show yes I wish I could have done that as well cool uh is entity tracker empty so I'm going to check the same thing so I'm going to check to see if the if the um Target is empty if it is then I'm going to check if it's a mission player and then if it is a mission player uh which is the incidentity perfect I'm then going to check and then I'm going to add the player to an objective marker um you think it probably wasn't made in 4k because most programmers have
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terrible eyesight I'm staring at it it's not quite possible I'm gonna ask I'm sorry um so then I'm gonna mark them perfect easy uh so now they're marked if they so when they leave the area if they haven't found the target I'll mark a ship so they're nowhere to go uh this event is sent by the occupied ships spawner when any AI has been spawned so I check is it a ship if it is the ship I am going to cast it to a ship variable set an a null objective markup exist will handle the marker and then I pass it in as a find object by radar which is another module module that's just going to handle marking it for me when it's been scanned by any of our scanning routes and then I'll show the objective if it isn't a
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ship it's a NPC I will add it to the all occupiers in case I need it however if the target tag is provided so the design is giving me it I then will check to see if the AI That's calling back to me has that tag if it does I'll add it and make it the target which is perfect cool uh module complete that is kicked off probably after you've knocked them out uh when this is the one I've just gone over so that's when you enter we start approximately tracker when you knock out void um we remove the target objective marker we add the target as it's beyond by a mission so that we so the corpse doesn't get cleaned up um because it would if if NC spawning was about um we have a lot of stuff in the game
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that like for example these these corpses if we have loads of them in area that chug your frame rate even more uh so we have to make sure that we clear up things that you you know that we don't that we we don't need so by saying this doesn't belong to a mission if the entity density manager system detects there are too many in a cluster it will just start cleaning them up to save your performance yeah it's hard ain't it yeah I'm thirsty um and then so if you have not voided out I'm going to start the delivery module which is a part of the modular delivery system and then I stop the proximity tracker because you've knocked them out you found them we don't we don't care that you're there and to be fair this proximity tracking node and it's a good thing about reading about
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your work this can probably be put here because when you've found them and I've marked them I don't care about how close you are to them because they have a marker which is sorry just close through all of these errors nice right there's more have you done yep perfect that's you've knocked them out this will call back to me when that delivery module is finished and that'll tell me that the mission's over because you've delivered the guy uh voidy so cool easy peasy right now the next step The Next Step takes us over to a new tool the next tool is data fudge date Forge is where we build our mission records and fill out a lot of information there so I will add a record
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and it's going to be a mission broker entry and I'm just going to call it sub to you subdue and deliver their liver yeah you know what that's fine cool um so this is where uh this is where a lot of the missions are built this is a huge data graph that um takes in a lot of inputs and changes how the mission plays there's a lot of power up here for example I have the power to take a mission that is only allowed for one person and only one of them is allowed to be around at once and without changing the logic I can make it so that everybody in the server gets offered it and pulled into the same logic and that's what we do for things like the in the wake of This Disaster the logic is
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built just to care if the ships have been scrapped and that's it but with the data forward settings we're able to make it kind of an open mission that kind of can encourage PVP and other things Keel so I'm gonna a uh owner so the owner would be me we have these owner things just so because we have a lot of missions we have a lot of teams now that also help build missions um so we have to make sure that when uh amazing QA Department put bugs in for them for them they see like just the narrative name so it will say like in the way to disaster is an easy one but we have bouncy ones that have like seven different names uh why are you laughing I don't get it because the way you phrase it it sounds like the QA people were the ones who created the bugs they
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did create the books they give me the books which I'm happy about I need books they're saying there are no bugs bugs don't exist until QA creates well no I don't book my stuff I just it's like Schrodinger's yeah exactly yes it's neither buggy nor works until QA opens the Box exactly exactly um so they'll point in a bug and it will be about like this bouncy Mission but the bouncy Mission has a random name random name generator type thing so the name of the bounty Mission could be called anything and it's difficult for us to understand which record it alludes to on our end so uh we have this ownership thing where they can open up the Bounty thing and go oh the mission and go oh this one's for um someone in Montreal and then we can assign it to them quicker and which means the bug gets resolved quicker as if they signed it to us that's going to be like a 24-hour period until Montreal come
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online not 24 hours but you know like eight hours until they come online can hit it anyway moving on um next stop select file this is referencing the mission module so I'm gonna do I'm gonna place this one in yep so this is this is referencing the logic that we have just created and what I'm going to do is I'm going to be cheeky because I've made a mistake because I've got where I called this Mission I'm going to right click and I'm going to rename this to actually be scheduled recover and so it's aligned cool so this is all called the logic this means when this record starts it starts this module and the module starts processing next up I'm going to take the title of the mission I'm going to drop that I'd drop that in
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there um I'll probably need to export in a minute um in here is where I drop the description um and then I drop the from line the type these are all the mission types we currently have this is what you see in your Mobi glasses to where the mission sort of exists I'm going to set this on mercenary so it's like typo or bug the same thing I have a note on that which I'll speak to you all about when I'm playing the game um okay right uh I won't I don't I can go through all these settings but there's tons of them and I just tell you all to read my documentation but you can so I'm gonna avoid it's explaining every single one of them and you guys can all just come up with your own idea of what they do oh why start now I know right we do want to get in and see how the
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mission actually work exactly and if I explain through every single one of these there's a hell of a lot of a lot of settings but I'll try high level them reward this is where we give you a raw reward that doesn't matter what value we put in because you're all not happy with it no matter what it is uh the location mission available is where the where the mission are generating okay the location mission available is where the location would generate so this is where we can say this Mission only stays around uh Stanton too um available date schedule this is for stuff like when we do the like uh Christmas missions Halloween missions whatever like seasonal of things we do we can also set it up here we have reputation rewards journal entries
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notifies when it pops up on your screen there's the buy-in which is obviously you buying in these ones are the most powerful the max instances max players per instance and Max instance per play this is where we can play around with how many of the missions can be active at once how many you can accept and how many one person can join into can be shared uh which is obviously so you can share with your friends once only which is the mission can only be done one we do these for a lot of story missions so the Arlington gang missions uh some of these are wants only is because it doesn't make sense for you to play them over and over again um there's a bunch of fail-based ones so if you send to prison if you become a criminal or if you leave prison we can fail missions um these are again just more settings that we can play with so we have respawn time uh so that's how long the mission takes to come back we have lifetime
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that's how long it's up for without being accepted abandoned cooldown so if you abandon it how long so you can get it back uh personal cooldown that's if you complete it how long until we want to give you another one and that's just to make it so other people can play the content as well and uh don't care about any of this stuff well you I won't tell you anything about it law for Mission this is if the mission is lawful or unlawful Mission give a record this is how we link it to say Ruto Pacheco um Clovis all of them invitation Mission uh This Is How We Do appointment missions so we put an appointment in here so we'd say this is Ruto and we give an appointment Mission now the appointment is if we want the player to physically fly and go say hi to Ruto and talk to them or talk to Miles or whatever it's it's kind of like a
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lead-in mission so you have to have a mission available to you for you to play before you get the invitation to go see them we don't just do an invitation and then there's no missions for you to play it's generated based on what missions you're eligible for beforehand uh reputation prerequisites which uh needs renaming at some point this is just what wanted level you are um and then a jurisdictional override for example like Grim hex they have a little bit of a little bit of a difference um in how they do law uh reputation requirements this is how how much reputation um how much oh my God no it's not how much for everything he's putting me off it it is the reputation required to get this contract because this entry is
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essentially a contract it's how much reputation you need to get or what you need to be equal to so we might have fireable we might have I'm going I've got oh my God it's half past required yeah all right I'm just going to move on the rest of the settings can wait but I can explain them on Spectrum already if anyone actually cares um so here comes here comes some of the magic so this is where I'm gonna find the location so I'm gonna put this this word in here mission location let's go BP which links to this uh where is Amish and location BP there you go that links to this and basically it lets me Set uh information from this side into the mission so I can control uh things like what the location
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does up here um so for example what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set in here um I'm also going to need to type in location here extended text token this is how we dynamically populate those Star Wars things that I was typing in and talking about their tokens in here I'm going to do a tag search for a location now we can pick locations specifically but to allow for some cases of Randomness we might not want to um so what I'm going to do in here is is to get a mercenary mission location I'm gonna restrict it to Stanton turn Stanton one missions locations systems done and what so I'm going to restrict his standard one so this is where you'll see it and also because mercenary Mission locations are applied
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to both ground-based locations it's how you have in atmosphere bounces um I'm also going to make sure that you can only do it in space I'm then going to set up a resource tag so a resource tag this allows us to say how many missions are allowed at a location at once because we don't want more than one person doing a killer Mission uh you know where you gotta kill 10 AI a singular location because if I turn up and I've got 10 AI to kill and you've got 10 AI to kill I'm either going to just wipe out your 20 or I'm going to kill 10 and then leave 10 and that just is weird so yeah that's that next up we need to set up boy voidy's name so in here this is where I would add the target name token which is what uh we have I'm going to set it to mail
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and then I would for example I'd put in voidy's name here and then that I'd bind to avoid his name and then you can see in game it'd show their name now this normally we'd leave random so it has that element randomless Randomness but for Missions like the Arlington mission that is where we wouldn't uh leave that next up we have the occupied ships BP so this is the um Gonna Fill in this so this is gonna be the ship that we want to spawn again I'm going to do a tag search tags nope ship spawn description that's what I want so this is a special spawn description thing that will allow us to see uh like it will allow us to see sort of
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the ship and build this like cookbook recipe I know I've talked about the cookbook recipe oven thing so this is how we're going to find the ship so the ship that we want is a uh reclaimer because that's a new fun with and we're going to look for the mission overlay setup reclaimer and I'm also going to make sure just for safety that I'm looking for the ship tag as well uh just to make sure that I don't find anything else for me because there's a lot of tags on a lot of things and I have to make sure that I definitely know which one I'm getting uh cool so this will essentially find that ship that's tagged up as reclaimer so in here all the way up in our ship thing we have a ship entity record it'll
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live in wherever the entity folder is which is all the way up here so in here we'll have a record that represents the reclaimer with a bunch of like level design markup and it'll have tags on it so essentially we can find that via tags and reference it in our mission um it's just a very quick way of finding stuff now this property the next one this is the only one that I've pre-built um because we so we have these sort of NPCs that we would we want to spawn on these occupied ships and we've built it to a certain level um where we know like oh we want 10 here we want five here we want three here and that's like a pre a predetermined amount because we've played it and we've gone okay this is this little bit of the reclaimer the cockpace form of two people and in this cargo area the reclaimer is fun with like five people
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in so we've pre we've pre-built this and it's a lot of setup to do and I have I'm at half pasta you're watching the single most accurate cig presentation ever before we started Elliott told me this last part would only take 10 minutes only at twitch.tv Star Citizen estimations are difficult I'm gonna get for me okay so uh this is so I've just pasted a load of information in here as you can see they're all down here but essentially what this is this is the NPC spawn description this contains a lot of the information for how we find NPCs and spawn them because again an NPC is an actual record so it it's all the way
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up there with its Loadout its AI activity uh it's it's uh armor it wears and all of this fun stuff that we have on it so the best way for me to find it is not to specify it manually it's use a generic tag search because I can use a generic tag search to go generically or I can put all the tags that that one entity would have on it to find the specific that I want but because I want to try to keep it random I'll just use some generic text so the generic Tags I'm using right now are nine tails and armed um so that's just going to find me a nine sales person that's armed and I don't want a boss because you can't take them down and I definitely don't want the career boss um I've excluded ship crew because they don't have the right activities and also they don't have pretty good armor uh we have the Min and Max group size um so this is uh what size of a batch
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they can spawn in we have the concurrent spawns and the max bonds so the difference between these is I could put Max bonds to -1 and I could say concurrent spawns of 10 and that had infinitely spawn NPCs for me as long as it didn't violate the current spawns of 10 and that's sort of like how we do in Siege uh constant AI coming out is that I say this area should always support 10 people but I want unlimited so when there's nine people it'll queue up an extra spawn of one uh and so on and so forth there's a bunch of extra settings on here like we can add stuff to the inventory we can choose a specific closet or Room Mission Allied Market means that they'll get a friendly marker over their head identify a tag so this is where the user would come in here and then add the tag of Target that I look for in logic and then this allows them
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to make a very specific person and say this is where I want them to spawn which I have one down here uh I've spelled Target wrong but this here is an example of where I have void dude Target yeah I have void dude and I've specified them as a Target and I've put them only to one because they should spawn they'll spawn with other people but in that thing it's saying I this is the one tag you had if I had more than one person in there all five of them would be targets and we don't want that kill so that is the NPC NPC ships to populate next stop we have the um Mission item so this is uh until we get a proper coded system for the uh for the
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delivery thing it's all handled by Logic we want to eventually have a properly built thing around here I can say delivery and it has a predefined sort of setup and structure to it so there's sort of like some hacky things I have to do to get around it for example how I Define what type of drop-off I want and when I say type I mean like you can drop off to a shelf um you can drop off to a locker you can put it in an action area or you can and drop off to a satellite with Maxi's new missions in the prison where you put a satellite chip in um so how we specify that is I have to specify a item which is kind of like a fake item which will beat of type delivery action
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area which basically when this feeds in it just tells my system to care uh care and do the one that is the action area drop off at the end of the whole Loop uh next up is the destination so this is where the ending point of where I want you to go uh to drop the Target off so next I'm gonna find that that location um so sometimes it should be location nice and I'm gonna do a match condition and then I'm going to do a tag search so in here I am going to specify that I want you to take it to an outpost and stand on one uh derelict Outpost probably because it doesn't make sense to take a void dude's lifeless not
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lifeless unconscious corpse uh to a what do you call it uh and like an active Outpost because I'm pretty sure they admin guide be like oh what are you doing cool and I'm also going to make sure that it only happens in Stanton one nice and then the last last thing that I need to add to this record is the objective setup so this is just so uh the delivery system knows what the item's called so we can put a marker on it if you was to drop it and this will just be of type string hash and then in here for example what I do is I'm going to drop the literally just the token that is going to pull void's name from these things so this would be
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void's name uh which is Mission Target name so that's going to dynamically pull void's name from this whole thing uh so then if you drop him he has a name the other things that like I have power to do for example on this record here I can embed a ship name on the ship so for example here I could put on the name of void ship on if I wanted so I could just like I don't know I'd name it something like all good ships because that's his catchphrase if you've heard it I can't do South African accent but he goes put all good ships have a name that went terrible sorry void me a camera one not only are you okay not me I deeply apologize for Elliot Malby and
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the views and opinions of his do not represent those of cloud Imperium games Robert Space Industries turbulent uh this basement that we're in uh Pete our audio guy anybody sorry carrying on um when I scroll down on this so next up is the very last thing which is he Jesus Christ I know I know I keep saying very lastly this is the actual very last thing for me I promise you um I just need to add the mission to the I'm pretty sure it's the last thing um but here's the thing you keep working you keep working
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this seems like it's taking a long time but the reality is that we are crafting a mission from scratch using the amazing tools that our subsumption team and our data forward team and our robo-hessie team really have created and the fact that we we're going to get it and dear Lord I hope it runs you need to keep working no I'm I'm ready to move on to the next part if it works this is incredibly fast it's actually very fast an hour and 40 minutes to make a mission is in insane if it works if it works if it doesn't work I'm going to Germany not coming back all right cool okay so last but not least so I I've added this
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is the Pu missions this contains every single Mission um and I've dropped in a subdue and recover so the next thing is I would boot my server cool we'll tell you when you go back to the screenshot so we're going to boot our server now in this instance uh booting an internal server takes a while we talked a little bit about that uh last week we have had a server running in the background during this and we're just going to send this information over and hope uh it stays up and running you ready yep okay so that one needs to go away
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sure yes and this one yep no no no that's the game that's what we want to say that screen needs to go away I need to add the C bus and pull that one off you want me to move this ever away as well cool yes uh what is that box right there that is a beautiful picture of Conor Allenby okay and now you got to make this bigger oh okay I normally play in Windows and the reason I'm playing Windows is playing window just make the window bigger yeah yeah yeah it's just when I'm building I have to I actively change things as I'm building so it's quick for me to Tab out and then yeah uh where is it as well that one okay is that big enough do you want a bigger sure sure can't go anywhere hey
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go to the last one okay you still go over there it's still windowed true true all right you switch back now hello okay so I'm in game [Music] full transparency I have put uh god mode and bottomless mags on and the reason I've done that is because when we're doing this we're like in the Prototype phase so me playing it naturally isn't important it's making sure that it works making sure everything spawns and then if it does I then go back and go right okay I'm gonna start like doing it properly to see the experience we're also not going to have any sound on this because I didn't think about it until just this very moment there we go
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um so next thing I'm doing is I am forcing myself a Loadout uh so I've got guns because I don't want to spend my time going to the shop so we have the mft loadout that I've crafted so I'll apply that it will give me in a second I'll get a body uh you know I'm just gonna have to full screen this which is quite risky because that could have crashed cool uh so now I have a body I have a buddy uh so I have my inventory I have all of my stuff that I might need so I've got tractor beams this is like a very big testing like Loadout it has a lot of stuff that I might need and next up I'm gonna Force the mission which is to do SUB Doom recover so this allows me to force Mission because even though you guys have to wait
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naturally because it's a generator for you to unlockify reputation I just need to test it so I'm going to force it so I didn't done that and now we have to wait for it to spawn loud uh missions are actually entities so they have to spawn like everything else in our game um so they'll be in a spawn queue why is that you're asking the wrong person I I don't know it's my decoder who's a hell of a lot smarter than me goes these need to be um you have to narrow that down yeah that's a lot of people David my David it has it'll probably have a reason I just don't know it but it's not anything that I can really just like argue with because what do I know why'd you make missions
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and half of them don't even work uh right I need to check there's not an asset cool no assets we're all clear so an asset is something that pops up in when you're testing um to say that something has gone wrong but it can recover from it so it doesn't crash you can't leave it you can't do a full screen you have to leave a window yeah okay you said there's even a big window well that's fine because the Game just crashed on me that's what it went yeah you can pick a full screen leave it as a very big window so yes uh if you're wondering why we haven't shown the screen for a while it um this is this is where I wanna
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let's let's let's have let's have a conversation about this while while we boot up here no you still do your thing you know you have to look like you're working though there is there is the live game environment and everybody knows you know you know how that is and what that is we don't need to go into that here then before that there's PTU Wave 2 before that you know it's a bit more unstable and then before that there's PTU wave one then before that there's Eva cotty you know where where it's generally uh so bad and and and unstable than anything we you know we we we we try to you know it try to keep it out of the ice as much as possible then before that is where will Dave and Alex from the ISC gameplay capture team that's where they
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have to do all their work so you know you know pour a drink out for the for the for the for the people who make the b-roll in ISC uh each and every week because they are working on pre-vacotti builds in whoo but before or where developers work where the developers and the QA work uh so yeah so a crash is not an uncommon is not a surprising thing to happen especially you know it just yeah you boot it up and it's like yep it is you know most of the time it isn't anything issues because we're constantly an active development so there's just all this stuff coming in and sometimes you'll hit some think that someone else didn't hit like a sprig of mint and it she'll sit down here now the server stayed up it was just the client that crashed
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oh no it was the server that went down yes he's currently booting yeah I know foreign a here because the server booty takes a little while over some of the questions we collected some of the questions we brought from last week so uh a few people were calling me out on spelling uh yeah I can't spell really can't um it's not a prerequisite no but the the good thing is that um their coders make it safe so we don't have to spell um so whenever I'm doing variables and subsumption the the name of it is purely front facing so I understand what information I've injected into that
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variable but behind the variable it has a unique uh guide uh guid to which the code uses so it doesn't use my spelling so if I spell it delivery here and delivery there it doesn't matter because it the number of the variable is what links it um so my spelling errors usually don't really matter it obviously matters when it's a code of doing it because they're unprotected but they protect people like me because I can't spell someone asked if if we have fail safes in place uh for when objects don't get streamed in uh as the mission might break uh in some areas we do in some areas we might withdraw the mission if ever you see a withdraw it's because Something's Happened in the back end
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that we've detected that we know we can't handle so we just have to take it away from you and then we would see that withdrawal on the mission on our analytics page and we'd be able to go in and sort of investigate as to why that happened so we do have some things in place there are other things you might have noticed where you're doing a delivery Mission and the marker is on the ground underneath that's basically that marker is on the OC route of the entire location while we're waiting for the location to stream in and everything that I need to be loaded for it to then assign you your delivery pot uh someone else asked are these the tools that I use to build PvP missions yes it's all one tool Suite so any Mission logic is built in subsumption just when you make a PVP Mission you have more Hate in Your Heart yeah yeah it's more about like how am I going to
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pick players against players and that's the fun bit someone asked me if when a mission chain breaks so an NPC doesn't spawn for example is that typically due to a link in this chain being broken so the chain that was on about is me connecting my nodes together and the answer is uh no usually that could be to do anything everything has to go for a spawn queue and sometimes that spunk you can get very backed up because we have a lot of stuff in our game so you could be at your location waiting and someone's just gone to micro Tech and that planet kind of needs to be there first because that's an entire planet you're gonna either go into it and it's gonna spawn around you and you'll die or whatever so there are things that are priorities and cues and the queue system can be huge but we're constantly working on it to try and make it more efficient and make it so that
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less requests are handled and things like server meshing should help because the spawn queue would be dedicated to each like thing that runs that area was last one is there any programmers on the mft similar to how VFX have programmers yes we have David polan we have Mark prades Calder I'm sorry I'm going to destroy some of these people's names uh we have Mark Mansell Mikhail geek sorry Mikhail love that guy and Josh kitchen they're all about they're all our programmers on our team right we can go back to my screen I just need to make it bigger the missions on I've loaded in game I can't speak I barely speaking no I'm just gonna I'm
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just gonna end like at least six sentences the next week with it and Josh kitchen and Josh kitchen yeah Josh kitchen he's one of our newest programmers he's doing great you keep it fine just leave it like that just live like that Josh kitchen stop stop playing with it oh okay that's fine okay then see everything you what that was for making a full screen before all right uh hold on move see I don't just break missions this is going really well 10 minutes for me to show you the mission if you try to turn it off yeah we're gonna do that we're gonna do this thing here and oh
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oh that's even worse is it lost the Jared has to go behind the desk hold on talk to the people Elliot read some questions read some questions go and then everyone ask me questions I'm here now did he delete the game by mistake no glad this show isn't live otherwise this part of br oh yeah there's no chance this show is live at all who's your daddy and what does he do what's your daddy not answering what does he do what's for lunch it's 5 p.m I'm gonna have tea why are you the worst Devon Sig
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I have no clue but thank you who's that Luke uh you know what yeah it could be why are you two time on the two-time for a reason do you play 40K I do yes you back David yes do the thing how much do you bench nobody asked that you added legit someone put it in here someone asked to how much I bench Okay so uh I've accepted the mission which is here um but it looks like some of the strings have broken so we won't see some of the strings uh usually this is because uh when you when you're making strings live you have to make sure you export them to the game if you don't export them to the um it uses the pack file strings and
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it's something you have to remember every time you shut down the client and reopen it you have to constantly export to the game so we're gonna have no strings but that's fine um because I can tell you what it oh what is on the screen so what I've just done is I've gone into F3 mode which is no clip um because again the important part of my flow is being at the mission and playing the mission so flying there isn't a part of it not until I need to start testing naturally but again I'm just testing to see if it works so I'm going to F3 I've been a third person yep this is I don't have Eva it doesn't take you into EBA it's literally just like you're flying As You Are cool so I'm going to get a bit closer faster than any ship can do it
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here's the planet loading in a bit closer to the mission location cool which is here nice I'm gonna get get around about here so I've entered the area um so it knows where I am and oh I need to so he knows where I am so at this point this is where it's like locate uh the sparkle uh so I have to locate the ship via scanning now again because I skipped the whole Aesop stuff uh I'm just gonna v-spawn the Cutlass um which is a quick way of being able to just just spawn a ship again quick testing it's about like getting in getting in and texting you can't test any content I'm gonna make sure that God Mode's on so I don't die and we have to restart this whole process
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god mode there you go and bottomless mags cool and basically then all I do is at this point the player would be going around and looking for the ship um and scanning a but right now this light is blinding me and I can't really see much on my screen so in this case what I might do is I might turn on unlip mode for myself and I can see stuff makes it look horrible yes but again I'm here to test stuff works so I'm going to look around and try find the ship we can't do full screen Zoro it's what caused the problem before oh there we go so there's the ship and there's the
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macron my God it's working chairs touch wood uh so there's the ship so next up I would infiltrate the ship um but again I I'm playing purely for functionality to make sure it works so I'm gonna I'm Gonna Fly there so here's the reclaimer the all good ships reclaimer void is um and next thought what I'm going to do is I'm going to come in the air lock so at this point because I've as a developer at this point because I've cheated a lot of the way here I need to uh chill for a bit and went out why I say chill and what I mean by chill is I've beaten streaming on a lot of cases
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uh so I have to make sure that the spawn cue slowly works it weighs down at all of my stuff spawns so I what I do usually is I'd sit here for a hot minute uh just while I wait for everything to spawn um turn the light back to normal oh yeah I'll turn the lighting back now Ian doesn't come after me so here we go atmospheric torch on uh so now what my plan would be is that um I made the mission so you have to find uh boy voidy so at this point I would be searching searching around to see if I can spot voidy there you go occupied ships and now there's AI on it and we've put markups this is stuff Nick echo's been working on uh put mark up oh we have an asset this is the thing I was on about this is
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something is broken um but it's one it's telling me that it can continue without it crashing so what our QA would do is they would they would ensure that they bug all of like they'd report all these assets and then each team will get these assets oh clicked out to make sure there we go there's another one the right receiver has to turn these off but we usually leave them on so we can see stuff like for example there might be an asset that I've caused I keep clicking off them on the screen yep there might be an asset that I've caused and this is my only way to figure it out I I forget uh cool so yeah at this point I'm looking around trying to find voidy
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Where You Are sneaking around so I'm going to call the elevator and I'm going to head down into some of the other areas so what do we got processing hold I'll go to the cargo hold maybe voidy sneaking around there counting his mouth you don't actually know where he's at no I've got no clue there's a randomizer element that we put in there yeah yeah pretty much you can have a specify where they are you can randomize it um I can't remember where I put voidy but cargo hold you know we might be in here holding his maze smelling it having a nice time with it avoidy are you here ah hello how did you survive that oh they've dropped their weapons so so these things are where we'd find
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issues like this and we'd report and like get these fixed up before um he's holding before we put it out um I'm just gonna murder hobo everybody uh yep nice right now you need to go back out voidy isn't in here and this is places where we'd find like server performance uh like and we'd look at that and how it affects the mission because there might be like we have the proximity tracker in but there could be the server currently I'm running it locally so it's kind of like not going to be accurate but the server forms could be pretty low to the point where the proximity tracker can't update quick enough so I can actually see it oh it's this way uh so I'm in another area oh waiting for me
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that knocking people up you wanna there you go again I've got good old mode on so I don't really need to care about the damage but please would get out of here you as well anyone else oh oh there you go there's the marker I've come close enough to void dude that I know where he is and I would be able to go up this little bit here but that because that's the the bit that leads up but uh I can't climb up there so I'm gonna go all the way back and try and knock voidy out I'm coming uh is that the next floor world's slowest elevator come on all these friends have come out to play
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no scope cool here we go voidy me and you 've gone so next up uh as you can see I now have a drop-off marker I have um voided they should say void dude he's not in his normal armor oh hello of course so in the next stop I grab void and then I what happened to your infinite mags uh I keep thinking I've got the um oh my God no one saw that no worries no worries uh I it thinks I've got a different gun
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in my hand that's why there you go and then I'm missing all my shots die where are you where have you gone saw it right now back to my multi-tool cool and now we there you go we grab void wait dude cool uh I think I think there's a bug in where if they're unconscious you can't track to be in them yeah there you go okay so the mission would obviously fail if you murdered boy dude because you are here to subdue and deliver but due to that bug and the fact that I haven't built
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the hole if you kill them the mission fails because again just testing for the feeling I've left him killable so now avoid uh well you can actually move with me right next up um so this is the quick keyword blame a bug and it was clearly a skill issue yeah that's what we did that's all we do all that you jump straight to oh it's a buck Not For a Moment considering that you were just bad I moved him twice and he shot back to his original location because you were bumping him into stuff bumping him into stuff he was rebounding clearly it's void's issue it's your issue voidy cool uh next up I'm out the ship and I need to get a ship to then take me back and I can't bother to go get my other
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ship so I'll spawn a fresh one and then I'm going oh my God third per thank you how close am I yeah it's all right so next up I need to put voidy in so I'm going to open up the back uh there he is boy dude come on I'm trying to be careful because if I go too fast he'll detach from my tractor
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beam and I'm using no clip mode so it's a bit quicker so this is what bounty hunting B2 looks like absolutely not voodoo no definitely not shot him through the door open it's pretty good there you go right avoid yellow why are you still carrying him around uh what void yeah he's in the ship already you need to make sure he's comfortable in yeah I might have killed him I'm not rude now if it lets me into the seat there you go um now called the star map and set a
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destination I appreciate the way you've ordered that I have to tackle the star map I this is where I want to remind everybody I've said it before I'll say it again I'm saying it now every single thought you've ever had about Star Citizen every single comment you've ever made in twitch or YouTube or just in the privacy of your own home we've had them all we've said them all and we were doing it long before it's you're we're just like you and you're just like us good ways and not yeah like Elliot's skill issue and blaming bugs for skill issues listen it
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was clearly a book okay right now I just need my QT to happen there we go and now I just need to try to drop them off we can we can assume that you know we're already in time we don't need to keep yeah I mean the delivery module is something that has been working for quite some time so uh This Bar would be pretty explanatory you take voidy you drop him off in a location uh Bob's your uncle actually Carl was my uncle oh sorry sorry Carl but there you go Mission worked first time yeah now who can't make missions he's not getting the crash so yeah so thanks that's it uh we're gonna assume he goes back to stand in
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one Stanton one is what we call internally which one is that oh assistant sorry Kristen Kristen yeah we use Stanton one two three and four but they obviously you know as Michael Tech Crusader blah blah that's it how you feel Elliot yeah good uh it took a bit longer but we got it working it's it's like it's not it's not a simple process to make missions it takes a while and then like for example I'm not even halfway finished because after this I'd go back and we'd we'd look at it as a team we'd iterate we'd improve we'd have a look at how we could make it better like what happens if you have to manage void is like food and water like you have to feed him would that make it more of an interesting gameplay Loop then because right now what I did with voidy he is essentially a box in a different form um so having that extra gameplay of
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feeding him making sure he stays uh healed up and things like that and that you don't die you know we could have reinforcements come after to try and reclaim him and you have to protect him and all that sort of stuff makes more interesting gameplay but considering that in less than two hours we did a first pass V1 of a mission and you know asserts aside and I think it functioned yes it functioned everything that we needed it to do did it for the first version yeah so like I said now we were iterating anything so yeah that is a uh uh it's still a very brief and extended but but still a very brief look at the mission creation process um I want to thank um I'm sorry what was your name again Elliot Elliott uh and all the members of the mission feature team for their fantastic work as well as the you know the folks behind subsumption the folks
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behind data Force folks behind Robo Hesse I feel like we have to shout hessy out of you know you know Andrew Hesse um uh poor went out for Jake muley and Ben Dorsey that's it for this week's show uh we got a couple housekeeping uh things and then we're gonna we're gonna throw the raid over to uh one of our star Citizens We're playing um next week is Gamescom Gamescom is the yearly convention out in Cologne Germany it is one of if not at this point with EA kind of retired it might be the biggest video game convention in the world right now that that's happening next week there are three three consecutive bar citizens going on next week in Cologne they're on Thursday night Friday night and Saturday night you can check out the
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robertsbaseindustries.com website for details also citizen con citizencon is just about nine weeks away uh that's the now two day event uh that's going on October 20th and 21st uh is there the 21st or 22nd 20th what somewhere around there uh that's in Los Angeles California at the Los Angeles Convention Center uh by far the biggest citizen con we've ever attempted uh tickets for that are still available also on the robertsbase industries.com website and because of Gamescom uh being next week and then we're having a summit in the Frankfurt office afterwards and because of citizencon moving off of its traditional 1010 day and being a little a little later in the month in October we are shifting the weekly video Cadence uh for the next
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week for the next two months really uh every quarter make sure everybody's paying attention every quarter we produce approximately 10 episodes of uh inside Star Citizen we are still going to produce 10 episodes of inside Star Citizen but we are going to introduce a one-week Hiatus uh next week uh that's going to that's going to allow us to push our content even closer to Citizen con without having a big month-long gap between our last episode of ISE and the beginning of season gone so still all the same episodes still all the same stories uh basically we're going to take a break next week come back the week after with the last six episodes of the quarter all is originally intended and then there will be no uh star system live next week because I'll be in uh cologne uh hanging out with people at the bar citizen so uh
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you needed to ask that question a long time ago never mind that was your one you almost made it to the end without it so yeah uh for Elliot for me thanks for watching uh we're gonna throw the raid to quanzi it's a crunchy is that you say it I've never actually heard him say his name outside uh krancy uh he is a terrific Star Citizen a streamer uh we're we're big fans um Elliot's a bigger fan than I am I think he's all right uh but we're gonna throw the raid over to him I just can't jerk sometimes thanks for watching Everybody Take Care uh see you in two weeks

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