About 'Making NPCs Suspicious'!

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#1

In this video (objectives)…

1 Using TextureProgress as game logic 2 Adding stealth to our stealth game! 3 Quitting the game

After watching (learning outcomes)…

Update the GUI when the NPCs see the player!

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#2

What’s the difference between giving the SuspicionMeter a group and adding it to the Global variables?

I mean, in both cases you’re being able to access it from anywhere, and while a group can have more than one element in it, here we are intentionally making this a “single element group”, so shouldn’t we just add it to Global?

#3

There’s a couple of reasons - first, it for some reason the group isn’t actually in game (we change something, or something goes wrong), it won’t crash the game. Second, we should avoid using global/singleton solutions unless we have to, especially in larger projects. The bigger a project gets, the harder it’ll be to debug or refactor if we have globals everywhere.

So if we can do this without a Global, it’s good practice to do so.

#4

Thanks for the explanation! Great Course!

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