Monsters anticipating player's attacks

[Hamburgermiester]

Once upon a time when I was playing legacy, i noticed a "Smart Monsters" setting to make the monsters maneuver around an approaching player attack. Then I noticed how [censored word] A_FastChase looked. How about something like a flag like "+ANTICIPATE" to make the monsters smarter and strafe around attacks as they come nearer rather than just strafing around randomly like retards?

[Hamburgermiester]

I'm just wondering, why is this no'ed?

[Enjay]

Doesn't MBF have "smarter AI" of some sort. Did any of that make it in when other MBF features were brought across? (I think the answer is no but I'm not 100% sure).

[XutaWoo]

Some, but I think the AI was untouched due to incompatabilities.

[Gez]

I didn't work on MBF AI features since the underlying AI system in ZDoom is very different from the underlying system in Boom, making a port of these functions complicated. There is, however, one element that Graf included, which is "avoid melee", but contrarily to MBF it's implemented as an actor flag rather than as a global setting.

[Hamburgermiester]

Now I'm wondering Xutawoo, If Legacy could do it, why can't Zdoom?

EDIT: okay, here's a workaround:

A_JumpIfActorCloser(actor name: e.g. "Rocket", distance in map units, <insert state here>)
The state that it jumps to could have the actor special Thrust_Thing to either side using A_Jump to jump from thrusting left or right and you could put A_Jump(128,"See") at the start to abort the strafe half the time.

[wildweasel]

Legacy probably did it in a hacky way that isn't remotely compatible with ZDoom's present AI routines.

[Hamburgermiester]

Legacy probably did it in a hacky way that isn't remotely compatible with ZDoom's present AI routines.

That makes sense, Legacy was a hacky engine to begin with.

[Shadelight]

Legacy probably did it in a hacky way that isn't remotely compatible with ZDoom's present AI routines.

That makes sense, Legacy was a hacky engine to begin with.

Much like your posting.

[Hamburgermiester]

Much like your posting.

HEH

[Project Shadowcat]

No, seriously, shut up. You shouldn't be ban dodging in the first place.

[Hamburgermiester]

No, seriously, shut up.

A_STFU("Hamburgermiester")

[Slasher]

A_IPBAN("Hamburgermeister")

is more like it.

[Hambergermiester]

How did this suddenly degenerate into ban threats?

[Ryan Cordell]

Because you keep retaliating after every post. Just shrug some off, for christ's sake.