Putting a thing to sleep

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:02 pm

Is there any way I can put a monster back to 'sleep' via ACS after it has woken? Thing_deactivate isn't providing what I need.

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:21 am

Might you be able to use thing_hate with hate type 5 to get it to hate something but ignore the player, and just leave the "something" out of sight? Or would it continue to wander around if already awake?

Perhaps another option could be to create a monster with an A_JumpIfInventory statement. When you give it an item via ACS, it could jump to its spawn state?

Phobus · Post by **Phobus** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:35 am

They seek out their hate target if they're awake, so it'd look like it's trying to find the ever elusive secret door for you... without the wall hump sound effects.

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:02 am

Tried the former; it was as Phobus said. I haven't tried the latter; I generally avoid messing with state jumping much for standard Doom AI... Graf Zahl often states it has unpredictable results.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:40 am

What if there aren't any actors in the map with the tid you tell it to hate?

Ichor · Post by **Ichor** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:59 am

I'll have to test this later today to make sure, but I think in order to use Thing_Deactivate on something, you have to first make it dormant (or inactive for things like torches) and then use Thing_Activate on it.

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:12 am

I've changed my approach so this specifically isn't an issue for me any longer. (However, the lack of a Line-of-sight check is a much bigger issue now...)