Tutorbot Chasing Enemies

[drm_wayne]

Hey,

https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/minion.planetquake.gamespy.com/tutorial/chasing.htm

I added this some months ago to my bots, but now i just realized theres something wrong with them:
Sometimes you and your bots are just getting stuck in the ground... Nobody can move anymore...

Anybody has an idea whats wrong? I think the line "setorigin(self.enemy.tracker, self.enemy.origin);"
is causing that error, so why is that used here?

[frag.machine]

Try adding '0 0 1' to self.enemy.origin...

[drm_wayne]

Try adding '0 0 1' to self.enemy.origin...

ahh thanks, it seems to work now:

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setorigin(self.enemy.tracker, self.enemy.origin + '0 0 10');


In Darkplaces the bug never happened, but in FTEQW, Fitzquake and DQuake.

[Spike]

are you sure that self.enemy.tracker is not world, and that you're not moving the entire world around? (the world cannot visibly move, but its origin does affect traces against it on the server).
I can't think of any other reason why the *player* would also get stuck because of some bot code.

[drm_wayne]

Its very strange...

The bug is still present.

EDIT: ok, i totally forgot that im not having teleporters in my qc yet, so i removed the teleporting releated stuff..
It seems to work now xD

[r00k]

This happened to me on my mod though with players, not taking damage before the round started but when they initially spawned.
I just put a quick loop in the spawn code something like

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      setorigin (self, spot.origin + '0 0 10');

      while (pointcontents(self.origin) == CONTENT_SOLID)//R00k: Fixes spawning in the map, caused by pre-game telefrag   [v1.62]
      {
         self.origin = self.origin + '0 0 2';


(corrected.)

[Cobalt]

Stuck in the ground happens when the player model collides with another object who's size is not set correctly. I believe the engine will set the player size to
0 0 0, 0 0 0 (point size) when that happens, which gives the appearance of it being waist high in the floor. The only 3 valid sizes are point size, player size and shambler size....all other sizes will make things drop through the floor etc.

[scar3crow]

Whenever something is happening in other engines, but not DarkPlaces, it wouldn't hurt to reach out to LordHavoc about it. He has implemented a number of "catch-all" portions to the engine where it corrects for common mistakes, this can quickly reveal to you what is happening.