STEP 48 OF 67 · YOU ARE THE NPC AND AI DESIGNER
Give people daily lives
Smart Objects (benches, counters, beds, workstations) and State Trees let people go to work, shop, eat and sleep on schedules.
How to do it
- Place Smart Objects.
- Write schedules per species, job and district.
How AI speeds this up
Ask Duke to draft daily schedules from your living-world rules.
Example from a sample game
Ashfall: miners leave at dawn, the market fills at noon, Veyl pray at dusk.
Before you move on
In Duke Forger, this step's gate checks:
- You confirm itPeople follow daily schedules
- You confirm itRoutines differ by species, job and district
Words to know
- Smart Object
- A place NPCs know how to use, like a bench to sit on or a counter to work at.
- State Tree
- Unreal's system for NPC behavior: states like idle, alert, chase and attack, and the rules for switching between them.
Do step 48 on your own game
Start freeIncluded in Creator, Academy and Studio. Duke drafts it with you and checks it before step 49 opens.