Make a monster walk faster in its "See" state

[Tormentor667]

Is it possible to make a monster walk faster in its states? For example I have a See state and by chance, the monster walks about 20% faster... or speed 12 instead of speed 10. Can something like that be done? Change the monster speed on the fly?

[Ethril]

AFAIK you can't dynamically change the speed property (but i could be wrong; maybe there's some ACS function or something idk), but you could always just have it jump to an alternate state (See2 or something), which would call A_Chase more (or less, if you so desire) rapidly.

[Tormentor667]

So calling A_Chase more often makes it automatically move faster?

[Ghastly]

Yes. A_Chase moves calling actor the specified Speed in map units every time it's called.

[Tormentor667]

Thanks, that works

[.+:icytux:+.]

not only does it move faster with A_Chase called more often. it moves forward soooo muuuuch more smooth. *hint torm for the tcotd3 actors*

[Tormentor667]

Smooth means in this context?

[Ghastly]

Smooth means in this context?

Try these two methods:

Speed 16
SPRT ABCD 12 A_Chase

Speed 4
SPRT AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD 3 A_Chase

They both move at the same speed, but the second one 'jumps' less each time A_Chase is called. The second one is what IcyTux means by smoother. You'll have to fiddle around with MinMissileChance or A_Chase("Melee", "") (<No chance of a missile attack, for this frame), because monsters that call A_Chase faster are a lot more aggressive.

[Enjay]

Yeah, I first noticed the difference that this makes years ago. You may have noticed that the original Doom monsters usually have a walking cycle something like this AABBCCDD. In an effort to get some extra frames for DEHACKED, I tried changing a few monsters to use ABCD and their movement became noticably jerky. Experimenting, I noticed that decreasing the frame duration and adding in more frames (and adjusting the monster speed) significantly smoothed their movement.

[Skippy]

Of course, depending on how the actor is supposed to move, 'smooth' might not be what Torm is looking for in this case.

[Graf Zahl]

Let's not forget that the attack probability also increased unless you add some A_Chase calls with no valid attack states.

[Ghastly]

Let's not forget that the attack probability also increased unless you add some A_Chase calls with no valid attack states.

Hence the comment at the end of my post.

[Graf Zahl]

It can't be stated clearly enough because it's the thing that is easiest forgotten.

[Cutmanmike]

It's easy to remember when you actually fight the monster to find it as agressive as a Nightmare monster

[DOOMERO-21]

the a_fastchase increase the speed?
only i know the a_fastchase only can make "strafe" , hhmmm.....