cycloid Posted February 27, 2004 i'm creating a new flavour of former human for my next map based on the zombie/trooper, the problem i'm having is that he's a bit, well, dumb. it takes about 5 minutes from him seeing you to deciding to attack, they just wander around. this is fairly normal behaviour for the zombies but is there a way to make them attack more often? like inserting a "face enemy" frame in the walk anim or something? 0 Share this post Link to post
Julian Posted February 27, 2004 The dumbiness is hard-coded into Doom. afaik, all you can do with deh is make the monsters faster. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 27, 2004 Imagine. [Demon] IQ = 200 Yeah that'd be fun. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted February 27, 2004 What about the "Reaction Time" setting? To this day I'm not clear on what this does... maybe it could be what he's looking for. 0 Share this post Link to post
Infinite Ammunition Posted February 27, 2004 Can't you do something like that with Zdoom's DECORATE lump? 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted February 27, 2004 Scuba Steve said:What about the "Reaction Time" setting? To this day I'm not clear on what this does... maybe it could be what he's looking for. Make a DEH where you set the Cyberdemon's reaction time REALLY high, like 9999999. Then go find one and don't shoot at it. Then shoot at it. 0 Share this post Link to post
cycloid Posted February 28, 2004 the ss nazi seems a lot more eager to shoot the player i might have a go with that instead 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted February 28, 2004 cycloid said:the ss nazi seems a lot more eager to shoot the player i might have a go with that instead That's only because his attack is repeating. The AI behind it is the same. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cyb Posted February 28, 2004 Infinite Ammunition said:Can't you do something like that with Zdoom's DECORATE lump? you can make new monsters, but that's where it ends, the 'AI' (if you want to call it that, it's really just a pretty simple search algo) used by the new monsters is the same ie: 1) am I awake? if no goto 1); 2) can I see the player? if no, walk towards him and goto 2); 3) am I in melee range and do I have a melee attack?, if yes melee the player, otherwise goto 4; 4) if I have a fireball attack, shoot the fireball and goto 2; 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted February 28, 2004 Cyb said:you can make new monsters, but that's where it ends, the 'AI' (if you want to call it that, it's really just a pretty simple search algo) used by the new monsters is the same ie: 1) am I awake? if no goto 1); 2) can I see the player? if no, walk towards him and goto 2); 3) am I in melee range and do I have a melee attack?, if yes melee the player, otherwise goto 4; 4) if I have a fireball attack, shoot the fireball and goto 2; You can get a little more variation out of 3) and 4) but 1) and 2) are limited to exactly that. 0 Share this post Link to post