Turn friendlies hostile and then back to friendly

[FlashyJoer]

Hi all,

 

Just curious about the subject. Ive tried too do this and can certainly make the targeted actor hostile by placing them into a custom faction that has the playerfaction set as an enemy, but the reverse, taking them out of the faction and then putting them into a second custom faction where the playerfaction is set to friend does nothing to stop them attacking.

 

Scenario: Dialogue driven scene - if a specific topic is chosen, it causes the NPC to turn hostile and attack the player. Using OnHit event to monitor health percentage of Player and NPC, I need the outcome in either case to be the NPC stops attacking and goes back into friendly mode where dialogue can be initiated again. As I said, I can trigger the dialogue and on chosen option make the NPC hostile. I have the code to monitor healthAV on both parties to see if it drops below 0.5 (50% total health) but yeah, doing the faction swap and .StopCombat or .StopCombatAlert does nothing to change the NPC back to 'friendly', non-attack mode.

 

Is there a step in the faction setup that I am missing? Is it perhaps that I need to add the two factions to PlayerFaction, as enemy and friend, depending on the custom faction?

[FlashyJoer]

Answered my own question through testing. So apparently the issue is not about having two user made factions where one is hostile to the player and the other is a friend. You also need to add the 'friend' faction to the vanilla playerfaction record as well. Once I did that, boom... I can trigger a fight with a friendly NPC and when their health hits 50% they are dropped from enemy faction and added to friendly et voila! They want to talk and no longer fight :)