Anyone been able to add functional staff?

[dsdude123]

I've been able to add new staff to the menu but all I get is a sideways staff member that doesn't move nor show up properly. Also, can't figure out how to set wages.

[knoest26]

The reason he's sideways is because you probably set the rotatetype wrong and the reason he doesn't move is because he doesn't need to move.

The is no reason for him to move as he's not coded to wander around when he's idle and probably doesn't have a job

[Phraxas]

Idk, according to previous experiences with actual system administrators, this guy seems to be working exactly correctly.

[dsdude123]

The reason he's sideways is because you probably set the rotatetype wrong and the reason he doesn't move is because he doesn't need to move.

The is no reason for him to move as he's not coded to wander around when he's idle and probably doesn't have a job

Ah, what should it be set to? I never could understand rotatetype

[Phraxas]

Ah, what should it be set to?

0,0

[dsdude123]

Ah, what should it be set to?

0,0

Already was set to 0. Seems that setting it to 4 solved the problem.

[dsdude123]

The reason he's sideways is because you probably set the rotatetype wrong and the reason he doesn't move is because he doesn't need to move.

The is no reason for him to move as he's not coded to wander around when he's idle and probably doesn't have a job

It seems that even when there is a job that the staff should do, they don't. Perhaps the modding system isn't ready for new staff yet.

[Dynamite874]

Well adding Guards crashes every single time

[pcgrosen]

. . . I haven't even gotten them to show in the menu like that. Could you fill me in on how you did that? Thanks!

[pcgrosen]

Entities seem to have a "JobId" property, and all jobs are given a number. Unfortunately, I don't think you can actually get the JobId for a given job, as Object.CreateJob() doesn't return anything. There may still be other ways to assign jobs, which I am looking into right now. I'll update with more info.

EDIT: Annnnnnnd it took me all of 20 seconds! If you define the job with the "Worker" attribute as the name of your entity, the entity should move to perform the job.

[knoest26]

About the rotatetypes, it goes like this
0: It's facing forward
1: Orientated to the left
2: Orientated to the back
3: Orientated to the right
4: Not rotatable

[dsdude123]

Entities seem to have a "JobId" property, and all jobs are given a number. Unfortunately, I don't think you can actually get the JobId for a given job, as Object.CreateJob() doesn't return anything. There may still be other ways to assign jobs, which I am looking into right now. I'll update with more info.

EDIT: Annnnnnnd it took me all of 20 seconds! If you define the job with the "Worker" attribute as the name of your entity, the entity should move to perform the job.

Worker attribute as the name? Not sure I quite understand you, can you post the code?

[Phraxas]

That's just going to create another worker though.

[pcgrosen]

Here's what I mean:

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BEGIN Job
    Name                    TendVegetables
    JobTime                 0.1
    Tool                    Trowel
    Worker                  Prisoner
    Qualification           Horticulture
END

This is from the Vegetable Patch example mod. You could change the "Worker" line to something like this:

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Worker          SystemAdministrator

That would call the Systems Administrator to tend the vegetables. If you changed the other lines, too, you could come up with a more fitting job:

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BEGIN Job
    Name                     RepairComputer
    JobTime                  1.0
    Tool                     Screwdriver
    Worker                   SystemAdministrator
END

Then, inside of your script, you can call the function to create a job:

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Object.CreateJob("RepairComputer")

I believe that would give you a functioning job for your System Administrator to perform.

[dsdude123]

Here's what I mean:

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BEGIN Job
    Name                    TendVegetables
    JobTime                 0.1
    Tool                    Trowel
    Worker                  Prisoner
    Qualification           Horticulture
END

This is from the Vegetable Patch example mod. You could change the "Worker" line to something like this:

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Worker          SystemAdministrator

That would call the Systems Administrator to tend the vegetables. If you changed the other lines, too, you could come up with a more fitting job:

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BEGIN Job
    Name                     RepairComputer
    JobTime                  1.0
    Tool                     Screwdriver
    Worker                   SystemAdministrator
END

Then, inside of your script, you can call the function to create a job:

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Object.CreateJob("RepairComputer")

I believe that would give you a functioning job for your System Administrator to perform.

Already tried that didn't work