Angry Monsters???

[redrum]

In my QW server, I have monsters roaming around.
The problem is when a monster is chasing a player and he gets away he will not chase any other player.
I want to make it that the monster will chase the closest visible player.
I was playing with something like this in ai_run():

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dist1 = self.origin - self.enemy.origin;
dist2 = self.origin - self.oldenemy.origin;

if (vlen(dist1) > vlen(dist2)
if (visible(self.enemy)))
if (visible(self.oldenemy))
{
 self.enemy = world;
 self.oldenemy = self.enemy:
 HuntTarget ();
}

The monster seems to "lock up". Like he's frozen or something?
Any help would be appreciated.

[Electro]

What you have there is only going to work if both the old player and the new player are both visible.

May I suggest just doing a function that's more like 'findenemy' and they just always go for the closest visible player. Don't need to worry about oldenemy really.

Maybe something like:

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local float bestdist, dist;
local entity e;

bestdist = 999999;

e = find(world, classname, "player");
while(e)
{
    if (visible(e))
    {
        dist = vlen(e.origin - self.origin);
        if (dist < bestdist)
            bestdist = dist;
    }
    e = find(e, classname, "player");
}



...and maybe just do something like this per monster once per second or something? should be sufficient enough.

[redrum]

So, I make a new routine and place it in ai.qc?

And then call for it in ai_run()?

[Electro]

Yeah sure, why not

[MauveBib]

Just as an aside, when calling the routine, instead of calling every frame do something like:

if (random() < 0.1)
LookForEnemies();

This is useful for a few reasons. Firstly, it gives the monster a slight reaction time. Secondly, calling a search every frame for every monster is excessive and slow. Thirdly, using a random time rather than fixed intervals keeps each monster spread out on his searches.