friendly guys bots

[DOOMERO-21]

well i need to make this question..
is possible add a decorate actions for bots, like "follow me" ?
i really want the friendly guy folow the player.

[Ghastly]

@ZDoomers: He means bots.

There's nothing that I know of in decorate that can do that, but it's probably doable with a lot of ACS.

[DOOMERO-21]

mmm i see.

[Nerdking13]

well there ARE some very hacky ways to do that in DECORATE.......

[bagheadspidey]

Yeah, it's possible to do, but tricky. Check this thing out, it can be made to follow you with a keypress... kind of. It doesn't work too well if you go around a few corners though =/

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=15906

[Matt]

@ZDoomers: He means bots.

There's nothing that I know of in decorate that can do that, but it's probably doable with a lot of ACS.

I can't think of anything that could set a goal or target for an actual bot. AFAIK ACS doesn't touch the bot AI at all, ever, except to check whether a player is a bot...

[bagheadspidey]

Oops, I guess I thought he just meant friendly decorate actors..

[Ghastly]

I'm pretty sure he does mean that. Last I heard, he's working on the Doom 3 Sentry Bot for his Revenge of Evil wad.

I, also, would like to know how to do something like that, if I end up making a Doom 2-ish Doom 3 remake .

[bagheadspidey]

I, also, would like to know how to do something like that

Check the link I gave above (I think you've seen it before, it's the EyeCam thing) ... look in the keyconf section for a command named "return" or similar and check out the acs script that it calls and the corresponding decorate. Basically it spawns an invisible, noclip actor where the friendly helper is. The invisible actor hates (chases) the player but will not attack, and the friendly helper hates (chases) the invisible actor, and also will not attack. When the friendly helper gets close to the invisible actor, the invisible actor disappears.

This works pretty well... the helper will follow the invisible thing unless attacked, in which case it should retaliate. Unfortunately, doom's path finding algorithm is really basic, so the helper has a hard time finding you if you go around too many corners. Also, I'm not sure there is a way to make friendly monsters open doors.