getting scripted marines to follow the player.

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:12 pm

Right now in Marine Combat im using path nodes to tell the marines where to go, but it does not want to work right and its making my TID's soar. Is there a way I can get them to follow the player? Thanks in advance.

cccp_leha · Post by **cccp_leha** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:39 pm

Hmm, make them hate the player and take their weapons away?..

Giest118 · Post by **Giest118** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:45 pm

But therein lies the problem, Leha... he needs the marines to fire stuff.

Perhaps you could have script lines that tell the monsters to move to a certain point when the player moves over said line...? (a bit limited, but oh well.)

cccp_leha · Post by **cccp_leha** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:59 pm

Ha, I've got one for you: switch to MBF (or its reincarnation)! You can then use the helper dogs.

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:17 am

Someone/me (i dont remember who did; i might have) made a feature request for a thing that follows another thing (such as a player) but doesn't necessarily hate the followed thing.

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:58 am

Thing_SetGoal maybe...

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:36 am

cccp_leha wrote:Ha, I've got one for you: switch to MBF (or its reincarnation)! You can then use the helper dogs.

...or the upcoming friendly monsters from Strife...

cyber-menace · Post by **cyber-menace** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:32 am

I'm not sure if this would work... but, maybe you could do something like this...

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#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 enter
{
thing_changetid (0, 666);
}

script 2 OPEN
{
Thing_SetGoal (MarTID, 666);
Delay (1);
restart;
}

That way the marine's goal is the player and it would be given that goal every tic. That could cover following you, but if it's going to shoot stuff, you'll need to make the marine hate the enemies too.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:03 am

A goal must always be a patrol point. Anything else won't work.

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:41 am

Graf Zahl wrote:
cccp_leha wrote:Ha, I've got one for you: switch to MBF (or its reincarnation)! You can then use the helper dogs.

...or the upcoming friendly monsters from Strife...

Guess I will just have to use the Path Nodes for now it seems, until .64. I originally WAS going to do this with MBF, but then I would have to sacrifice monsters in DEHACKED to get marines, and it would be quite limited. Im Marine Combat right now, I have quite a few zdoom only effects. Guess I will have to live with the marines getting stuck in the wall for now...

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:36 pm

OH DUH!! I JUST REALIZED THE ANSWER!! I CANT BELIEVE IT WASNT OBVIOUS!

Spawn a patrol point at the player's coordinates, make the monster SetGoal-it, and then a few tics later, spawn a new patrol point at the player coordinates and SetGoal it! And repeat!

I can't believe no one realized this!

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:59 pm

So that will eat up my TIDs how fast and spawn HOW much crap in my map almost nonstop?

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:02 pm

Oops. I wasn't thinking of that.

I just realized solution!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thing_Remove the patrol point after one second and then spawn another at the player's spot WITH THE SAME TID!

It's so simple but such a powerful realization. We can now create things that follow things (like player) without them hating!!

Giest118 · Post by **Giest118** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:03 pm

Whoa, that's, like, an LWM-style solution to the problem!11!11!11111eleventyseventybillionandhundredthousand

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:04 pm

But there is one problem: If the thing that is following gets engaged in battle, i think it will forget about the SetGoal.

I guess you could make a loop that every few tics reminds the thing of its setgoal!

Will someone test this theory? I'm kinda busy now.