Dodge state for monsters

Doomguy0505 · Post by **Doomguy0505** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:35 am

There should be a dodge state for monsters so they don't get hit by a missile so easily

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:13 am

Damn, that would be fucking awesome! Great suggestion! I support this.

DoomRater · Post by **DoomRater** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:14 am

Yeah, like RIP AND TEAR from the Boss logic in Hexen or something.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:22 am

MasterOFDeath wrote:Damn, that would be fucking awesome! Great suggestion! I support this.

Sarcasm overload

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:09 am

Doomguy0505 wrote:There should be a dodge state for monsters so they don't get hit by a missile so easily

A_FastChase, motherfscker! Do you use it?

DoomRater · Post by **DoomRater** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:15 am

TheDarkArchon wrote:
Doomguy0505 wrote:There should be a dodge state for monsters so they don't get hit by a missile so easily
A_FastChase, motherfscker! Do you use it?

More importantly, is it in the Wiki yet? Last I looked I never saw anything called A_FastChase, nor knew that it could be used for this purpose.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:16 am

Under DECORATE, I think so.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:14 pm

It has been in the docs from the beginning.

DoomRater · Post by **DoomRater** » Mon May 09, 2005 12:32 pm

(re-reads docs) Anyway, about that side-dodge idea...

Xenophon · Post by **Xenophon** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:12 pm

But fastchase causes very fatal errors with friendly monsters

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:33 pm

Yes, they still have to be fixed.

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:24 pm

It would be an easy fix, just have to rewrite it so A_FastChase includes friendlys. I would post the fix but...you know...

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:41 pm

I'd go one step further and merge A_Chase, A_FastChase, A_SerpentChase and A_SerpentWalk together. 80% of these functions is identical and if that was done all monsters using A_FastChase and also Hexen's Stalker could be used as friendly monsters or walk towards a goal which currently they can't. It really doesn't make sense to have nearly the same code 4 times in the EXE, does it?

DoomRater · Post by **DoomRater** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:18 pm

Yeah, I remember kicking myself a few times when I realized I had written code several times over in the same program!

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:44 pm

cutmanmike wrote:
MasterOFDeath wrote:Damn, that would be fucking awesome! Great suggestion! I support this.
Sarcasm overload

I wasn't being sarcastic dummy, I would have used a

if I was. I do support this.

And yes, there is A_FastChase, but what about a monster that could attack as it actually got thrusted left like it was dodging? Or maybe use it to simulate or better yet MAKE more complex AI tricks on a DECORATE monster, would personally love to see what somebody like LWM could do with it.

ZDoom

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