Make an Actor block monster line of sight?

[Nash]

Is it possible to make an Actor break monster sight checks? Say I'm trying to make an Actor that looks like a huge box, and you can push the box around to "hide" from other monsters.

[Graf Zahl]

No. The sight checking code only checks linedefs. If it had to traverse actors as well it'd slow down considerably.

[ramon.dexter]

Polyobject? I know, its crude and halfway solution, but it could be used as pushable object/hideout.

Graf, are polyobjects counted when doing the sight check? I think yes, because they're linedefs after all (I suppose).

[Graf Zahl]

Yes, polyobjects are counted. This is needed so that closed swinging doors block sight

[Apeirogon]

But polyobjects have inf. height, no!?

And I see there are

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native bool IsVisible(Actor other, bool allaround, LookExParams params = null);

function. Maybe this is what you want!?

[Caligari87]

You could do a two-sided polyobject. Those can be visually shorter, if you can prevent (or don't mind) the player seeing the "paper thin" walls from the top or bottom. Can't remember if they can be walked on or not (I think not).