Seat NPCs in vehicles

Needs Testing

Seat NPCs as drivers and passengers in a grouped vehicle. Use director mode while setting up the NPCs and their group.

In the menus: ESC → Design → Manage → GROUPS

Board the NPCs

Start with a vehicle and the NPCs you want aboard.

  1. Create a group.
  2. On NPCs, select each vehicle or NPC and choose GROUP. Select your group, then ADD TO GROUP.
  3. Return to GROUPS, select the group and choose RIDE.

Drivers fill before passengers. For fresh assignments, NPCs board in the order they joined the group. Loading a scene prefers their saved seats.

Move and dismount

Assign a route to the vehicle to move it with its riders.

Select DISMOUNT on GROUPS to set the NPCs down.

Things to note

  • Seats must exist. The vehicle needs a free configured seat, and each NPC needs a seated animation. Check these if boarding reports no seat.
  • NPC pilots cannot fly fighters. Use ground vehicles for routed NPC drivers.
  • Scenes keep seating. Save after boarding to restore the riders with the scene.

Prefer the console?

Press ~ to open the console. For an existing group named patrol:

/group ride patrol on
/group ride patrol off

Syntax: /group ride <name> <on|off>. Successful boarding and dismounting print nothing. Missing vehicles or seats produce a message.

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