Friendly monster that follows you

by **Freemanoid** » Sat May 16, 2009 5:56 pm

I read tutorial about friendly monster here http://inside3d.com/showtutorial.php?id=180
But I need something else. I need a monster that follows you when you find him. For example, I place him in my map, and when I find him, he must protect me. So what I need to change in code to do something like this? Monster - soldier.

by **Wazat** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:32 pm

by **Freemanoid** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:44 am

So how can I do that? :roll:

by **Madfox** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:55 pm

by **r00k** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:35 am

by **Spike** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:50 am

by **Error** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:06 am

by **r00k** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:50 pm

Ah, ya silly me. :oops:

Looking at the cujo source they are using movetogoal builtIn.

by **Freemanoid** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:50 pm

by **r00k** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:39 pm

well basically,

. the .guy has to run a findradius
. see if you are visible
. determine your direction
. jump?
or
. movetogoal
or
. idle

wash rinse repeat

google "cujo quake", download "Killer Quake Patch" from filefront, decompile the progs with frikdec, search for "cujo" in the source and then investigate from there

by **Madfox** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:54 pm

well, maybe not smart.
but what's wrong with my answer?

by **r00k** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:20 am

He wants to have a "character" standing idle on the map, so that when you walk up to it and touch it, then it will walk around the map where you lead. Not just a single place to teleport to. Just like in counterstrike, how you have to touch the hostage and then they follow you back to the rescue zone.

by **MeTcHsteekle** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:50 am

shop smart, shop s-mart.....

YA GOT THAT??!!?!?

by **MauveBib** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:06 am

Effectively you need to create an AI with two states, searching and following.

It will begin in the searching state, where every second or so it does a findradius to see if there's a player nearby. If there is it switches to the following state, where it chases after the player.

It's not too hard to code, but if you can't code it based on that breakdown you need to go off and learn so more qc first. Try a few more tutorials, especially the AI Cafe ones.

by **xaGe** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:12 am

..And for the AI Cafe tutorials you will need to go here:

http://quakewiki.net/archives/aicafe/tutorial/main.htm

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