Smart terrains and jobs

Smart terrain configs describe places where squads and individual objects can work. Job configs decide which object can take which logic section and with what priority.

The source files live mostly under src/engine/configs/scripts/**/smart plus shared smart terrain configs such as sim_smart_base.ltx and sim_smart_resource.ltx.

Smart terrain role

A smart terrain is a server-side simulation object. It owns jobs, tracks assigned objects, and participates in offline ALife simulation. When an assigned object goes online, its binder and scheme logic run on the client side.

Use smart terrain configs for simulation placement and job selection. Use scheme sections for the actual object behavior once the job is active.

Job fields

Common job fields include:

• logic, pointing to the script config and section used by the object;
• prior, defining selection priority;
• suitable, checking whether the object can take the job;
• active, selecting the active logic section;
• path_walk and path_look, used by walker-style schemes;
• on_info and other condlists for switching job state.

The exact fields depend on the scheme used by the job.

Editing workflow

When changing a smart terrain job:

1. find the smart terrain section and job section;
2. follow logic or active to the scheme section;
3. check suitable and prior if the NPC does not select the job;
4. check scheme implementation and parser support for any new field;
5. validate LTX includes and schema.

Run:

npm run cli verify ltx