decorate flag: +hatetarget

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:18 pm

Self-explanitory. Something with this flag will draw monsters to it like the player does. Maybe have something like +IgnorePlayerHateTarget, which causes the monster to only go after this thing and to totally ignore the player.

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:25 pm

use thing_hate

I haven't tried using it yet, but I will(gonna be nessecary for some of my cutscenes).

Inuyasha_989 · Post by **Inuyasha_989** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:30 pm

its for Decorate, not ACS. he already tried that anyway, but thanks

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:32 pm

but from what i have been reading thing hate requires that the monster also needs a tid and while i could simply just have all the monsters have the same tid, what if need certain monsters to something else? I cannot give a monster two tids. And then on top of that you need to tag the hate target and as far as I know the only action that will give it a tid is the thing_spawn and that needs a map spot. The flag seems to be so much easier.

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:56 am

mini bump

I do not know the code behind zdoom but would this be possible?

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:11 pm

Would +FRIENDLY work? thing_hate works pretty good in combination with ACS.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:41 am

Thing_Hate can be used in DECORATE as well, yno.

justin024 · Post by **justin024** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:20 am

Any action function can be used in decorate, but why create an actor that can hate only predefined tids? ACS allows your monster not to be as limited.

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:37 pm

I do not think you get it. I want monsters to hate whatever has the +hatetarget flag not the other way around. +friendly does that fine.

Example: you spawn a decoy that looks like the player but does nothing. If you give it the +hatetarget flag then monsters will go for it like the player. Other wise they will just ignore it.

Thing_Hate is terrible for this because it takes a tid for the hatee. The hatee is the thing that is supposed to hate whatever you want. So you have to give it a spicifc tid and that causes problems when you want to use that thing for something else.