Partner Following

Want your partner to follow you around in the overworld? It'll take some scripting work as well as map editor work to achieve this. Let's start with the map editor.

You'll need to place down a spawner that the script will use to spawn in your partner. You can do this in the Entities tab, and choosing an object type of spawner. Let's work with the assumption that your partner will be whoever is in slot 2 of your party. In such a case, we'll call the spawner TEAMMATE_1 and the entity it spawns Teammate1, as seen below.

File:Partner Spawner.png

Place the spawner wherever in the map you want the partner to spawn in. You can also set the default direction they spawn in as by changing the direction of the spawner. Once this is done, save your map changes. It's now time to make changes to the init script for the ground so the game knows what to do with that spawner.

Open up your init script and look at the Init callback function. Here, you'll need to add several functions related to spawning in and setting up your partner.

You'll need to start with calling COMMON.RespawnAllies(). This will call the spawner you made earlier. It'll also call spawners named TEAMMATE_2 or TEAMMATE_3 if they exist, if you want to have your other party members appear on the map. From here, you'll need to set up your partner's data and AI. You can do this with the following commands:

local partner = CH('Teammate1')
AI:SetcharacterAI(partner, 'ai.ground_partner', CH('PLAYER'), partner.Position)
partner.CollisionDisabled = true

This will