Oh wow. Is the algorithm part of a public mod? Is it something I can find somewhere?

Also, wouldn't there be something similar to this algorithm in the single player gsc files for cod2. Because doesn't the AI in single player do sort of the same thing as astar?

EDIT: woot 2nd page!

It is now time that I get to some real scripting. I have made a rough duplicate to the map used in the gametype I am trying to mimic. I also put in a script -> model. Things I set on it:

model: xmodel/zombie
targetname: zombie
angle: (set correct angle for aesthetics)
origin: 64 64 0 (ground level, beginning of ramp)

I put in spawns, lighting, and voila I compile and i have my preliminary map.
Also, I put in a hurt trigger and a damage trigger. The hurt trigger was intended to be linked with the xmodel to make it damage(hurt) whatever the xmodel touched. And the damage trigger was to start the movement in motion.

Here is the script I whipped up in like 15 minutes.

main()
{
	thread zombiemove();
}

zombiemove()
{
	zombie = getent("zombie","targetname");
	trig = getent("trig_damage","targetname");
	model = getent("trig_hurt","targetname");
	model linkto(zombie);
	int i, x, y, counter=1;
	trig waittill("trigger");
	thread rotate();
	for(i=104;i<=1000;i+=96)
	{
		if(counter == 1)
		{
			x = 64;
			y = 960;
		}
		else if(counter == 2)
		{
			x = 960;
			y = 960;
		}
		else if(counter == 3)
		{
			x = 960;
			y = 64;
		}
		else if(counter == 4)
		{
			x = 64;
			y = 64;
			counter = 0;
		}
		pos = (x,y,i);
		zombie moveto(pos,15,2,2);
		zombie waittil("movedone");
		counter++;
	}
}

rotate()
{
	zombie = getent("zombie","targetname");
	int i, x=0, y, z=0, counter=1;
	wait(1);
	while(1)
	{
		if(counter == 1)
			y = o;
		else if(counter == 2)
			y = 270;
		else if(counter == 3)
			y = 180;
		else if(counter == 4)
		{
			y = 90;
			counter = 0;
		}
		wait(13);
		angles = (x,y,z);
		zombie RotateTo(angles, 2);
		counter++;
	}
}

Before I get a bunch of people responding "YOU NOOB!! THAT'S A TERRIBLE WAY TO DO ALL THAT!" Well that might be true, but at least it should work. However, if you know for a fact that something in this script shouldn't work, then please, do tell .

So I ran the maps without a single compile error. However, when I shot the damage trigger to make everything move, nothing happened.

As a debugging strategy I whipped up this script in like 2 minutes.

main()
{
	thread zombiemove();
}

zombiemove()
{
	zombie = getent("zombie","targetname");
	model = getent("trig_hurt","targetname");
	model linkto(zombie);
	wait(10);
	pos = (64,960,104);
	zombie moveto(pos,15,2,2);
	zombie waittill("movedone");
}

Literally all this was supposed to do is after 10 seconds of the map being loaded, it should have moved the xmodel and when i touch it it should have killed me.

But of course, it never moved. And neither did the hurt trigger. I'm assuming this is because a script xmodel does not work the way I'm thinking it does. Or there is plainly something wrong with the xmodel I'm using.

liltc64 writes...
He certainly has done his research though.

clanhelio writes...


Why thank you

When I am interested in something, i put all my effort into it.

Read somthing about polygon pathfinding, that its better than waypoints. You should try to make that instead of waypoints:


http://www.ai-blog.net/archives/000152.html