Hate multiple TIDs?

[Tormentor667]

Is there a way to make a monster hate multiple actors with different TIDs by using the "Thing_Hate" command in acs? I mean, does it work if I simply write...

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Thing_Hate(tid, target1);
Thing_Hate(tid, target2);
Thing_Hate(tid, target3);

...and the "tid" monster will hate "target1", "target2" and "target3"?

[Gez]

I think it's overridden. Each time you call [wiki]Thing_Hate[/wiki] the monster will change target to choose a new one. (Even if you make it hate the same TID as before, it'll change target anyway; see this discussion.)

[Tormentor667]

So, there is nothing I can do?

[Slasher]

So, there is nothing I can do?

Maybe a feature suggestion, and then hope it gets accepted...

Because I, as well as yourself and others I'm sure, would find this quite useful.

[Tormentor667]

Just done

[Ichor]

Maybe you could make it hate one of the tids randomly. Then, when that target dies, it would hate one of the remaining tids randomly, and so on until all of the targets are dead.

[Tormentor667]

Unfortunately not a solution in my case.

[Cutmanmike]

Could you explain why you need to have hatee's with different tids so we can think up a work around?

[Tormentor667]

I think you have already played Stronghold, haven't you? I am actually working on a new game mode for Stronghold and the problem is, I need to make sure that the spawned monsters are embedded in a loop that always makes them hate the players. Players in this case have all a different TID and that's exactly the problem. And no, it doesn't work with the "hate also players", no idea why though.

[Cutmanmike]

One VERY hacky way off the top of my head would be to spawn a hate target constantly ontop of the player and make the monsters hate that instead. I have no idea if it would work though.

[HotWax]

You shouldn't need to use Thing_Hate at all to make monsters hate players... they do that naturally.

[Tormentor667]

You shouldn't need to use Thing_Hate at all to make monsters hate players... they do that naturally.

But not automatically if they haven't heard or seen the player, thats the problem

[Demolisher]

You could use

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NoiseAlert (playertid,playertid);

EDIT:

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NoiseAlert (0,0);

would also work

[Tormentor667]

Err.. and where to put this?! O_o

[Demolisher]

When the monsters spawn.
Wouldn't the second that monsters see a player, or a player fires a weapon, the monsters would be alerted?
That's how it works with one player, why can't that work with 3 or 4?