Virtualization

[armazac]

A new system is being developed to virtualize AI and handle spawn/despawn.

Implemented

• All OF group spawning is now handled by the new OVT_VirtualizationManagerComponent. Groups are given waypoints when created. This includes base patrols, town patrols, radio tower defense and QRFs.
• Manager will track location of the group and spawn if a player is within spawn distance, despawn when not
• While despawned they will move in a straight line at a fixed speed to each waypoint virtually, when spawned they should be given the appropriate waypoints to continue walking normally
• When spawning it will spread the groups across multiple frames
• All virtualized groups are persisted to EPF and loaded on startup

To-Do

• Extensive testing and bugfixing
• Persist group members to virtualization + EPF so when killed they stay dead. Currently you need to kill the whole group or they will respawn as a full group if players leave spawn distance and come back. Alternatively maybe remove groups from virtualization when any member of them dies, ie just keep them spawned until wiped out
• Add server configuration for spawn distance, allowing server owners to set it to a large number if they just want to keep all AI spawned if they have a beefy server