Alien Fauna ‐ Programming Guide

Introduction

This wiki page outlines implementation and usage of alien fauna in the game.

Adding Animals

New animals can be added in the NPCFactory. See (Adding Animals)[https://github.com/UQcsse3200/2023-studio-1/wiki/Alien-Fauna-Implementation-%E2%80%90-Adding-Animals]

AI Behaviour (Movement stuff)

An animal's movement behaviour is dictated by adding tasks to the AITask Component.

Taming

Taming passive animals are implemented in [TameableComponent](

Animations

Attack Patterns

Hostile combat (including melee attacks and projectiles) are implemented using AttackPatternComponent. Attack Patterns

Projectiles

Hostile animal projectiles are implemented using Projectiles

Indicator

Indicators appear on the screen to notify the player that there are hostiles in the area that they must defeat. Entity Indicator

Animal Components

UML Diagrams

Running Away Task

Tamable Component

Adding interactions with animals and other non-tile entities

Please read https://github.com/UQcsse3200/2023-studio-1/wiki/Interaction-with-non%E2%80%90tile-entities