camper

camper makes a stalker hold a combat position, scan look points, and fire from cover. Use it for ambushes, snipers, defensive posts, and scripted combat positions.

The scheme owns a combat-camping planner action. It can block regular ALife, item gathering, corpse search, and wounded helping until close-combat camping is finished.

Parameters

path_walk

Type: string. Required. Default: none.

Patrol path used for movement between camp points. Relative names are resolved against the active smart terrain.

path_look

Type: string. Required. Default: none.

Patrol path used for look and scan points. It must not equal path_walk.

sniper

Type: boolean. Optional. Default: false.

Enables sniper scan behavior and sniper update rate.

no_retreat

Type: boolean. Optional. Default: false.

Stored in scheme state. Invalid together with sniper = true.

shoot

Type: always, none, or terminal. Optional. Default: always.

Controls when the NPC may fire at the visible enemy.

sniper_anim

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: hide_na.

Sniper animation state stored by the scheme.

radius

Type: number. Optional. Default: 20.

Close-combat radius used by the close-combat evaluator.

def_state_moving

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: null.

Suggested movement state.

def_state_moving_fire

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: null.

Suggested movement-with-fire state.

def_state_campering

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: null.

Suggested cover/scanning state.

def_state_standing

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: def_state_campering.

Suggested standing state.

def_state_campering_fire

Type: stalker state. Optional. Default: null.

Suggested cover firing state.

scantime_free

Type: number. Optional. Default: 60000.

Time to keep scanning without enemy contact before resuming patrol movement.

attack_sound

Type: string or false. Optional. Default: fight_attack.

Sound played when firing. false disables it.

enemy_idle

Type: number. Optional. Default: 60000.

Enemy memory timeout before the action stops treating the remembered enemy as active.

The section also supports common switch fields such as on_info, on_timer, and on_signal.

Shooting modes

always

Fire whenever the enemy is visible and the action can shoot.

none

Never fire from this camper action.

terminal

Fire only from the terminal waypoint of path_walk.

Any other value aborts with a config error.

Sniper mode

With sniper = true, the action builds a scan table from flags on path_look, enables the object’s sniper update rate, and scans look points while the NPC is on a camp patrol walk point.

sniper = true cannot be combined with no_retreat = true.

Example

[logic]
active = camper@ambush

[camper@ambush]
path_walk = ambush_walk
path_look = ambush_look
sniper = true
shoot = terminal
def_state_campering = hide_na
def_state_campering_fire = hide_sniper_fire
attack_sound = fight_attack
on_info = {+ambush_done} walker@after_ambush

Notes

• path_walk and path_look are both required.
• path_look cannot be the same as path_walk.
• Danger handling can temporarily override scanning with danger-facing states.
• The implementation uses fixed internal scan constants for enemy dispersion, scan delta, and scan time delta.