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Civilian Presence module

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Documentation has now been released on the BI wiki for the relatively new "Civilian Presence" module which supposedly provides mission devs a new method of spawning and controlling civ AI in urban areas which results in more realistic civilian behaviour without performance issues.

It was a singleplayer only module at first release but the documentation now states that it should work for multiplayer scenarios as well now. I haven't tested it myself yet however, so it maybe a case of having to wait for a hotfix before it works in multiplayer despite what the documentation says.

Regardless, I thought it was worth making a thread on it since I believe this new module has the potential to improve our future community made missions which involve civilian occupied settlements.

Documentation on the module here
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Saw that at work just now. Them claiming it works for multiplayer is an interesting development because it looked really handy when I was playing around with it a few weeks back.
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Just had a look at the civilian presence module function and found this line at the top.

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if (isNull player || isMultiplayer) exitWith {};
if the player does not exist or we are in multiplayer then exit the function.

Not going to work in multiplayer at the moment.
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Dmitry Yuri wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:33 pm Not going to work in multiplayer at the moment.
Ok, seems like I jumped the gun a little. Still it is confirmed that the module will eventually be compatible with multiplayer so we just have to wait until it's in the patch notes of an upcoming Arma update.
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This system is now multiplayer compatible, works pretty well too.
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If by "realistic" you mean running around like chickens with complete disregard to whats happening around them, then yeah definitly a great job.
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