Making an enemy teleport close to the player?

[Sergeant_Mark_IV]

I am trying to do the following: If the monster is too far from the player, and there is no line of sight (A_CheckSight), the monster should teleport near to the player.

I am currently doing a very gross hack: Making the monster disappear, spawn a pathfinder actor that moves very fast and has NOCLIP, and on his missile state, spawn a clone of the previous monster. (its a low health monster, so doesn't matters if his health is reseted).
This works fine for a while, but sometimes the pathfinder just doesn't want to search for the player. Sometimes it will just stay still where it have last seen the player, facing the same angle, doing nothing, and will only work again if he see the player again.

The pathfinder code:

---

ACTOR Pathfinder
{
Radius 20
Height 56
Speed 20
Health 8000
MaxTargetRange 200
Monster
MaxDropOffHeight 8000
MaxStepHeight 8000
-COUNTKILL
+NOTARGET
+THRUACTORS
+MISSILEMORE
+MISSILEEVENMORE
+FASTER
+DONTSPLASH
-SHOOTABLE
-FRIENDLY
+NOCLIP
States
{
Spawn:
See:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 A_Chase
Loop
Death:
Missile:
TNT1 A 1
TNT1 A 0 A_Scream
TNT1 A 0 A_NoBlocking
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItemEx("Monster",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,SXF_NOCHECKPOSITION,0)
TNT1 A 0 A_SpawnItem("TeleportFog")
Stop
}
}

There is a better and cleaner way to make the monster teleport, or, at least fix this pathfinder?

[GooberMan]

I guess hooking it in to some ACS would be the way to go there. I assume you'd need to Thing_Hate the Pathfinder for it to move forward in all cases.

Once you've gone the ACS route, the spawn code would simply SetActorPosition on the monster that created the Pathfinder and spawn the TeleportFog like you're currently doing.

(At least, it sounds sensible to me. I'm not able to test it for the next few hours due to work)

[Matt]

Just wanna comment one one side thing:

See:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 A_Chase
Loop

=

See:
TNT1 A 1 A_Chase
Loop

but !=

See:
TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Chase
TNT1 A 1 A_Chase
Loop



Anyway: is [wiki]A_Warp[/wiki] an option? If so you can try using that, with or without an intermediary actor.