Ninja Factions
The Ninja Factions plugin is designed to provide flexibility when establishing the relationship between your AI Teams.
It introduces the concept of Factions, Memberships and Reputation, creating a very dynamic way to determine not only how your AI Agents react to perceived targets, but also how your world can react to players.
Main Features
Data Driven: Configuration for Factions and Reputation Tiers is done in Data Assets and Data Tables.
Flexible Databases: The default Faction Database uses Data Assets registered in the Asset Manager implementation, but you can also create your databases.
Flexible Attitude Resolution: Attitude Resolution Strategies are extensible, so you can use the provided ones (Simple Team Check and Reputation Tier Check), or create your own.
Designer-Friendly: Built in C++ but can be configured and extended in Blueprints.
Extensible: Everything is configurable, extensible or component/interface based. No specific class requirements, which makes it much easier to integrate this plugin with other systems.
Save System: Factions can be saved and loaded so players can continue their progress between play sessions.
Integrated with the Editor: Including a Settings Page, Data Asset Contextual Creation and a new Faction Category for the Gameplay Debugger.
Design Pillars
Data and Gameplay Oriented: Based on Data Assets and Data Tables. Dynamic Memberships and Reputation altered by Gameplay.
AI Foundation: Created with the AI Team Agent and the AI Perception systems in mind.
Integrations
Factions can be used by the Ninja Combat to enable or disable Friendly Fire.
Factions can be used by Ninja Bot to determine Attitude for the Perception Layer.