Modifying monster sight.

[One Doomed Bunny]

Hello,

 

So I have been working on a good stealth mechanic for a while now but what has really been bugging me is that once the monster sights the player it immediately attacks.

 

Now what I want to do is if the player peeks around the corner and sees that a monster, he has 3 seconds to go back to cover before the monster attacks him or goes into search mode.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated!

 

[DavidN]

Are you using DECORATE or ZScript? (Or something else!) It sounds like you want a variable attached to the actor that will get incremented while the actor is in its “See” loop, continuously checking for line of sight to the player, and then to break out of that loop if the variable reaches over 105 (105 tics = 3 seconds)

[One Doomed Bunny]

34 minutes ago, DavidN said:

Are you using DECORATE or ZScript? (Or something else!) It sounds like you want a variable attached to the actor that will get incremented while the actor is in its “See” loop, continuously checking for line of sight to the player, and then to break out of that loop if the variable reaches over 105 (105 tics = 3 seconds)

 

I am using ZScript. But yes, that does sound like it might work.

 

[One Doomed Bunny]

So, I am having some trouble implementing it in so could anyone give me an example?

 

[zen4040]

don#t know about zscript but here's what you can do with decorate alone

use an alternate state for the actual chase function and use the see state just for pause and after the pausecheck if the player is still in sight with A_LookEx, and send him to the chase state and type goto spawn in case the player isn't in sight anymore

something like this:

Spawn:
	WALK A 0 A_Wander
	WALK ABCD 5 A_Look
	Loop
See:
	IDlE A 1 A_Facetarget
	IDLE A 50
	IDlE A 1 A_LookEx(LOF_NOSOUNDCHECK, 0, 256, 0, 180, "Chase")
	goto Spawn
Chase:
	CHSE ABCD 5 A_Chase
	Loop