A_Chase(0,0) in ZScript?

[Enjay]

In docorate, it is possible to use something like:

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SPRI AAA 1 A_Chase (0, 0)

in the see state sequence to make an enemy keep coming after the player, but not try to attack (thereby reducing aggression in enemies using particularly short walking frames).

When I tried the same thing in ZScript...

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SPRI AAA 1 A_Chase (0, 0);

I got:

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State jumps with index cannot be used on multistate definitions

So, I changed it to

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SPRI A 1 A_Chase (0, 0);
SPRI A 1 A_Chase (0, 0);
SPRI A 1 A_Chase (0, 0);

and I got:

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State index must be positive

so now I'm using:

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SPRI AAA 1 A_Chase ("See", "See");

That seems to work, and I don't *think* the enemy is jumping to the first fram of the walking sequence ("See" state) every time it is called (I don't want it to - I just want it to carry on in its "See" sequence). I just wanted to check that it was the correct way to do it in ZScript.

[Rachael]

Have you tried "", "" as the states?

[Enjay]

Well, I have now and...

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State jump to empty label.

[Arctangent]

It's null you want. Not "Null", but null - any string is going to be converted into an state label, and apparently any integer is going to be see as a state offset. null, meanwhile, is the universal "nothing" value for any type.

[Enjay]

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SPRI A 1 A_Chase (null, null);

Does indeed seem to do the trick. Thank you.

[Rachael]

Yeah, sorry my idea didn't work. I guess I need to work on ZScript a bit more.

[Enjay]

No problem. All suggestions gratefully received (and tried), regardless of the result.