Posted by LiamGRKelly

perhaps a good pet would be like a bear that doubles as a horse and can defend you

lol /agreed

Pets in guild houses that can roam freely would be amazing.
(of course without walking aimlessly towards a fence, getting stuck in water, etc.)

Should have some sort of function to interact with them as well. ;) think about it!  

Please make a pet system that allows players to have pets that follow them around. If scripted properly it will not lag, I have actually made the core for a pet system and it uses very little cpu on both clientside and serverside(following and "tricks" work, need to add polishes to the interface though)
basically with it you have all kinds of different looking pets that follow you and if you say something in chat they do a trick(change gani). Maybe make them able to be put in your house and wander around.





for scripters:
the spawned pets only take about 0.003% cpu time on serverside on a regular playerworld, due to a 0.3 second timeout with clientside interpolation of movement.
As for clientside lag it shouldn't lag, it uses no timeouts.  

Post your pet system so I can criticize it, here's mine that I whipped up in the last 10 minutes to show insignificant you actually having the "core" scripts made is.

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  if (this.owner) {
    this.owner = findplayer(this.owner);
    this.owner.pet = this;
  } else {
    destroy();
  }  
  initPet();
  warptoOwner();
  onTimeout();
}

function initPet() {
  // Set's pet graphics and gani
}

function onTimeout() {
  if (this.owner == NULL) {
    // Owner no longer exists (logged off), so destroy.
    destroy();
    return;
  }
  else if (this.owner.level != this.level) {
    warptoOwner();
    setTimer(0.25);
  }
  else {
    petLogic();
  }
}

function petLogic() {
  if (getOwnerDist() > 4) {
    moveToOwner();
  } else {
    setTimer(0.5);
  }
}

function warptoOwner() {
  // warpto this.owner
}

function moveToOwner() {
  // determine delta angle/coordinates
  // move based on delta
  // set timeout based on movement length
}

public function performAction(action) {
  switch (action) {
    case "dance":
      setcharani("pet_dance", ""); 
      break;
  }
} 


Focus on the idea and not the fact you already have the "core" done if you actually want to see things get added in these forums.  

Posted by fp4

nice stuff

Yay dancing pet´s ^_^ well seems nice yet  

seems like a pretty good idea  

Great idea!