AI Dev-Log 5: NPC Definitions Part 3

Well, seems blogger deletes posts that are being saved when a power surge occurs.

What were we doing? Ah yes. Creating the nodes themselves. 

For this purpose I made a function that parses the contents of a NPCDefinitions file. This logic is managed in the main singleton of the project: Nodes.gd

#The contents of this part of the post were deleted by blogger, and I'm trying to remember the order things were

Back to the problem at hand. I decided to make sure the code will work for many cases, so I defined a quite complex function that has already been presented on the nodes: Trivalent decision.

The node would take any type and would return the same type that was input. For that purpose I implemented a new Type, the type 28 would serve that purpose.

So in Nodes.gd : const TYPE_ANY = 28

I defined the node as follows:

"Tri-v Decision" : {
        "_category" : "inhibitor",
        "_code" : "FuncRef?",
        "_input_ports" : [
            {"_lablel_title":"Value", "_type" : Nodes.TYPE_ANY},
            {"_lablel_title":"Weight 1", "_type" : TYPE_REAL},
            {"_lablel_title":"Weight 2", "_type" : TYPE_REAL},
            {"_lablel_title":"Weight 3", "_type" : TYPE_REAL}
        ],
        "_output_ports" : [
            {"_label_title" : "", "_type" : TYPE_NIL },
            {"_label_title" : "Output 1", "_type" : Nodes.TYPE_ANY },
            {"_label_title" : "Output 2", "_type" : Nodes.TYPE_ANY },
            {"_label_title" : "Output 3", "_type" : Nodes.TYPE_ANY }
        ]
    }

I'll use this one as a stress tester, if there's something wrong, this function will make it evident.

So here comes yet another problem, signal handling...

So far Signals:

• can be added by code (in the same fotrmat we define input and output ports, but limited to types 0 to 26)
  
• can be contained in GraphNodes
• can be listed by code
  

I need to come up with a structure so I can get into the functions... I guess I'll have to do it in parallel.