ai_disable

[DieparBaby]

Just wondering if vanilla quake or WinQuake has an ai_disable console command. I've haven't been able to google one.

Thanks,
DieparBaby

[Sajt]

What makes you think it's called exactly 'ai_disable'?

'notarget' makes monsters ignore you unless you shoot them.

[DieparBaby]

Well I don't know if it's called ai_disable exactly but a search for "quake 1 disable ai" should turn up something if it exists. I just wanted to be able to turn the monster thinks off and on. I'm near the end of writing a quake c 'mod' to do it in case there isn't already a way.

[FrikaC]

There isn't a way, exactly.

[DieparBaby]

Well you could add an extra field called .last_think which would store the last think
that an entity had before the ai was disabled through an impulse. Then you would
set the current .think function to SUB_Null. To turn the ai back on, set the .think
function to .last_think.

[frag.machine]

Well you could add an extra field called .last_think which would store the last think
that an entity had before the ai was disabled through an impulse. Then you would
set the current .think function to SUB_Null. To turn the ai back on, set the .think
function to .last_think.

I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated, since the time stills going on, and a lot of things would be screwed (animations, calls to SUB_CalcMove and stuff alike). It would look more like they were frozen on time actually (which could be a funny thing to do just for fun).

[Entar]

In certain engines (like Vr2 and DarkPlaces) you can use sv_freezenonclients 1.

[Urre]

A mod by the same guy who made Conquest (sorry, my memory sucks) had this ability, to freeze things by qc. Maybe it even was Conquest? See, I don't remember

[Entar]

Oh come on Urre, Wazat! Wazat made Conquest, and Jeht and all those other ones...

[Urre]

I should've known. Sometimes I just suck. Haven't seen Wazat in a while, that's probably why.