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class lookers_EventHandler : EventHandler
{
PlayerInfo player;
Array<Actor> monsters;
ThinkerIterator MonsterFinder;
int tCount;
int spDir;
void findMonsters(float distance)
{
monsters.Clear();
Actor mo;
MonsterFinder.Reinit();
spDir = spDir == 15 ? -15 : 15;
while (mo = Actor(MonsterFinder.Next()))
{
// note that Spawn is not detected by InStateSequence
if (mo.bIsMonster && !mo.InStateSequence(mo.CurState, mo.ResolveState("Missile")))
{
float d = player.mo.Distance3D(mo);
if (d < distance)
{
mo.A_SetAngle(mo.angle + spDir, SPF_INTERPOLATE);
monsters.Push(mo);
}
}
}
// console.printf("Monsters found: %d, direction: %d", monsters.Size(), spDir);
}
override void WorldTick()
{
if (tCount < 70) // speed of change
{
tCount++;
}
else
{
findMonsters(1024);
tCount = 0;
}
}
override void PlayerSpawned(PlayerEvent e)
{
tCount = 0;
spDir = 15;
MonsterFinder = ThinkerIterator.Create("Actor");
player = players[e.PlayerNumber];
}
}
This is rough and may have problems, although so far I like how it looks. The angle is changed within a perimeter, and I've no idea if it resets to a standard sprite angle once the player moves away (my guess is yes). Since I'm not tracking individual angles (for now pointers are added to an array until I decide) directions toggle back and forth, which can create a weird choreography. InStateSequence seems buggy (it doesn't detect Spawn, for one); for the present it seems OK to exclude Missile, since it makes sense in those cases that a monster face the player.
Still pondering...
Update 12/7/21
Spoiler:Update 12/10/21
Spoiler:Update 12/14/21
Spoiler:
I literally had nothing else loaded other then your tweak (hell even disabled reshade to test just in case). Sure the first screenshot is on me forgetting to isolate the problem with the new addon if there was a conflict but the second screenshot when loaded with this single tweak i could reproduce it over and over again. I hammer enter to start a new game asap, bring down console type changemap map04, load up the new map, open the first door to get to the first bunch of enemies next to the shutters, face the shutters at any angle and die, boom the 2nd screenshot i showed you.