Pawn attack movement navigation

[Veleran]

Can someone tell with a few words,which commands should i use in genericmonster script,and in which orders,
to make the pawn use the nearest scriptpoints when it is running towards the player.

If the player is standing one store above the pawn,
the pawn runs to attack the player but cant reach him,so it is stuck running at the base of the wall.

I want it to check that point3 is the nearest to the player.
then go to point1,check again in which scriptpoint is nearest to the player,
move to point2,(since this is still the nearest) ,check again next nearest scriptpoints to the player,
and then from point2 it will be able to direct move towards the player.


So during start of run-or something, i want the script to check which is the nearest point to the player,
which is point3,and then find which are the two previous points from point3,
which are point2 and point1,so it can go first to point1.

This idea has a problem:if the player is downstairs,and is near and below point3,the pawn might go to point3 and stick to the upper floor.


If there is a better and easy way to navigate the pawns,tell me.

[Allanon]

Maybe just check if the coordinates of the player is above the enemy, if it is then have it go to point 1.

[Veleran]

I dont know scripting,yet i saw that there are some low level commands
float GetEntityX(string EntityName);
float GetEntityY(string EntityName);
float GetEntityZ(string EntityName);


If it could check
1.The player coordinates.
2.that point3 is the nearest to the player ncoordinates.
3.Check if point3 is at +30/-30 units of the Y coordinates of the player.
3.That point1 and point2 are the previous point from point3.
4.Go to the nearest point of the path (point1).
5.move to the next points nearest to the player.



If it wont check the Y coordinate,the pawn would propably do what it does unitll now:
it might go straight under the door in the pic,which is under point3.

[Juutis]

RF doesn't have proper pathfinding. Jay was working on it at one point but it was never released, dunno what happened to it. However, it could be possible with scripting, I already have an idea. Or a possible idea. But it would probably be too complicated and heavy to be used in complex levels.

[Veleran]

I want something simple and nice,i d say -just two -three scriptpoints for each stairs or ramp,so the pawns can move up and down stairs.
Maybe there are nt any commands that can be used to find which point is nearest to the player,which point is nearest to the pawn in Y distance,how to compare the distance of player to points and then how to check the distance from pawn to points..etc.

I changed the field of fiew so the pawn wont see very high up orvery low down,so it will loose the target if it is one store above and go patroling.
When a pawn is chasing the player it may loose a previous scriptpoint,so i tried to add a low level order for finding a new path after lost target order,but it does nt work.

Newpath[ ()
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bool NearestPoint(20, 600);
return 0;
HighLevel(Patrol);

[Juutis]

bool NearestPoint(20, 600);

Remove the 'bool' from the beginning. In the manual it's there because the command returns a boolean value (true or false). If it finds a scriptpoint it returns true and if not false. So the command is simply:
NearestPoint(20,600);