AI Question

[Zyrixion]

I've been lazily working on a survival map for a bit, and have hit the wall of not knowing a good/reliable way to have hordes of creeps hunt down players. It's not hard to get them to hunt a fixed player down, as in when they spawn set them to hunt the nearest player, but say they die or run behind other players- the creeps shouldn't mindlessly stand around or try to get to the one guy while ignoring the other players. I can't think of a way to do this....any help/suggestions would be wonderful.

 

[X-maul]

well i'll sugest that you use triggers, then you create a trigger that makes all units controled by (the owner of your zombies) attack move to location of a nearby enemy unit....

maybe make it do so, every 1 minut...

 

[WindexIsBack]

Add the units to a group.

Every 5 seconds, check every unit in and if the picked unit's current order is "" (this means it has no order) than give it a new order. There are multiple optimizations which can be made, for example a limit on the loop.

 

[averes]

An AI such as this isn't to hard to make. If you can tell me exactly what you want the hunter to, such as things to do in certain situations if 2 players are nearby etc etc I can make it for you pretty easily.

 

[Zyrixion]

Thanks all. I think I know how to do this now. And thanks for offering, but I'd rather do it myself for the learning experience. I need the practice, especially since this is to be a map released to the public...I want to be able to support and improve it, and every bit of knowledge helps.