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Freepoint (Spot)

Spots (also known as Freepoints) are invisible objects scattered through the world. They are only needed for their location and name and could be compared to a Plain Axes Empty from Blender.

Often, Spots are scattered around fireplaces or monster locations. A Spot can then be used by characters or monsters for certain actions. For example, they tell the Npcs where they can sit. If a spot is occupied, the Npc will simply choose the next available spot. If that is also occupied it will usually just stand somewhere, trying to do smalltalk.

For Monsters, Spots define where they can go when they want to go for a little walk around they spawning location (Roaming).

All of that is realized by giving each Spot a special name, ie. FP_SIT or FP_ROAM. There can be many Spots with the same name, but the game just checks whether the tag is somewhere in the name. The process goes like this:

  1. Is there any place where I can sit down at?
  2. *Searches for nearby unoccupied FP_SIT spots*
  3. Ah, there by the campfire is a nice spot! I'll occupy that for a moment!