make monster attack a entity

[Jukki]

Hey i have one entity in my map. Its kinda like monster without moving etc. It is solid bsp (cause i wana shoot trought it). and make it so monsters can hurt it. Problem is. They zombies do walk to them. But not attack. (they do attack if i set it solid_bbox) but then i cant shoot trought open parts of model.

any fix?

[demnuh235]

How about having 4 entitys instead of 1? They would make you a hole, plus your barricade could be partially destroyed?

[demnuh235]

Or u could make a little invisible entity and put it inside the barricade. Zombies' brains would touch the solid object, decreasing its health

[lth]

What is your zombie AI code like? Vanilla Quake? Or have you modified it? Because monsters won't naturally attack anything apart from clients (unless the other thing attacked them first).

[Jukki]

Naah. Thx for help. But we allready did tis like 3 months ago XD

I finaly decided i create a second enity to back of the entity. when monster touches this trigger entity, they play a attack anim and entity takes damage. So they realy dont attack it.

[necros]

mmm, this was bumped but i'll go anyway:

the reason monsters can't attack a solid_bsp is because of the way the engine and qc work.

monsters use the target's .origin to determine if they can 'see' it, and also if they have a clear shot to hit it.

the problems happens because solid_bsp entities always start with an origin of '0 0 0', ie, the center of the map.

you would have to modify the zombie targetting code so that, if it detects self.enemy is a solid_bsp, to, instead of using .origin, use the middle point between .absmin and .absmax, by doing centerPoint = (self.enemy.absmin + self.enemy.absmax) * 0.5;