making the player follow a scripted path? :(

[CaptainManiac]

Uh,can i make the player move along a scripted path of points?
like this:

#include "zcommon.acs"

script 1 enter
{
Thing_ChangeTID(0,12);
Thing_Setgoal(12,13,0,0);
}

i tried this and when i went on the game the player was frozen with still shooting and then it was unfreezed,but did not follow the point.Why is this happening?

[scifista42]

Thing_Setgoal may only work on things with a monster AI. The player doesn't have monster AI, he's controlled remotely by the person who plays the game. If you want to make a cutscene where the player seems to be moving, use a ZDoom scripted marine in the player's place instead, that one is basically a monster with AI.

[CaptainManiac]

I need to make a first person sequence like the player sees from his perspective how he follows a goal.Is this possible?Is there a way to make the player walk to there?

[scifista42]

Not the player, but a scripted marine yes. Use ChangeCamera to set the player's first person view to the scripted marine's point of view, that way you should be able to achieve what you want.

[CaptainManiac]

Then i need to use cameras,not monsters.If the scripted marine is used as a camera which moves,...i will try

[scifista42]

As the ChangeCamera wiki page suggests, you might need to make a custom DECORATE actor (derived from ScriptedMarine in your case) with a CameraHeight property set to a convenient value.

[CaptainManiac]

This will work on classic doom,isn;t it?

[scifista42]

Not sure how you mean that. Of course I'm talking about classic Doom as opposed to Doom 3 or Doom 2016. These features are ZDoom-specific, though, so don't expect them to work in non-ZDoom ports.

[CaptainManiac]

I tried to make a path and the monster camera worked good,but... the monster have seen me and i just looked at the environment from his eyes,but the path has not been followed

[scifista42]

Make the monster friendly or make it unable to see the actual player.

[CaptainManiac]

Friendly monster stays and does not do anything