## About The Pull Request
Separate verb and PR from #89375 because this is something you'd apply
on top of a mob with existing behaviour, or one you've used the other
verb on.
This will probably conflict with my other PR but that's my problem.
This adds a shortcut for making mobs say/emote stuff randomly on a timer
from a list of things you have specified.
Doing this via VV is possible but sufficiently complicated that I don't
think anyone would ever bother.
As with the other PR you can optionally do this to mobs who already have
a client if you want them to randomly burp every so often or something.
I briefly flirted with the idea of replacing all
`/datum/ai_planning_subtree/random_speech` subtypes with blackboard ones
but... I think probably actually we save some memory _and_ sanity by not
doing that.
A bunch of mobs on totally different typepaths use the `/insect` subtype
for instance, and I don't think it would be an improvement to paste the
same four vars into all of their blackboards.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This one is frankly more niche than the other PR probably but it is
plausibly useful if you are setting up some kind of VV creature.
## About The Pull Request
Melbert asked me to make this and I thought it'd be relatively easy and
plausibly useful so I did.
This PR adds a feature to the VV menu for mobs which allows you to apply
and configure an AI controller from a list of templates.
It's not as versatile as coding one would be, but it should be able to
accomodate a lot of generic scenarios.
Some examples of basic stuff you can set it up to do:
- Give Ian a machine gun he will fire at nearby people while staying
within a specified min/max range.
- Have Poly fire brimstone beams on cooldown at whoever is nearby
(although she won't bother trying to line up cardinally).
- Assign a gorilla to be someone's personal bodyguard which will follow
them around and attack anyone who hurts them.
I have also made an executive decision to remove the restriction that
basic ai controllers can only be placed on basic mobs.
We've removed _most_ non-basic simple mobs from the game, and also have
more recently updated most AI behaviours to work agnostically of whether
they are assigned to a basic mob or not... which means that they'll
largely work on carbons.
Coincidentally, this feature makes sure to ask if you want an AI
controller to remain active on a mob which already has a client.
Assigning an active AI controller to a live player which forces their
character to automatically attempt to run away from whoever the last
person to attack them was is ~~not recommended behaviour because it's
largely untested~~ highly recommended behaviour because I think it's
very funny (makes it very hard to play though).
I'm gonna do another PR some time which cleans up `random_speech` so
it's configurable and then let you slap that on whoever as well.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Enables a greater level of admin abuse.
## Changelog
🆑
admin: Added easier tooling for admins to add or change the AI
controllers on mobs
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* Targeting Datums Renamed (and global) (#79513)
## About The Pull Request
[Implements the backend required to make targeting datums
global](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/6901ead12e419530b7f646ea21094d4432d7385e)
It's inconsistent with the rest of basic ai for these to have a high
degree of state, plus like, such a waste yaknow?
[Implements
GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/d79c29134d03424a9f8bacd64c08cb41775fe8c0)
Regexes used:
new.*(/datum/targetting_datum[^,(]*)\(*\)* -> GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY($1)
Renamed all instances of targetting to targeting (also targetting datum
-> targeting strategy)
I've used GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY at the source where the keys are
actually used, rather then in the listing. This works out just fine.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Not a misspelled name through the whole codebase, very slightly less
memory load for basically no downside (slight cpu cost maybe but not a
significant one.
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* Targeting Datums Renamed (and global)
* Update dogs.dm
* Modular
* Modular
* Modular
* Merge skew?
* Revert "Merge skew?"
This reverts commit 0889389ab5cb5c56655f1860d9173ba87efe9a22.
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Co-authored-by: Bloop <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
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