AI to assault a point Created 17 years ago2007-08-18 22:52:41 UTC by Archie

hey.

So i haven't really tried anything with HL2's AI yet, and thusly, i'm pretty clueless about how to set anything up. Maybe you can help

SO, what i want is for 10 combine soldiers, created with an npc_maker, to run to a point in the map, but still attack the player and other enemies.
Purely guessing, i tried the ai_goal_assault entity, with the rally point set as the name of an info_target i had in the location i wanted them to run to, and the name of the combine in the Actor(s) to affect field.
The entity is triggered by a logic_auto - Onmapspawn, BeginAssault (60.5 second delay)

Upon spawning, the combine do nothing, though.

Halp?

edit:
the map has plenty of nodes, so the AI should be able to find its way to the destination no bother.

Well, you can use the block tool. Strangely enough.

There's a built-in HL2 example prefab that sets up an assault for you, although only in sets of 4 soldiers at a time. Easy to modify after the fact though. Just make sure that the soldiers have a clear node-path to the assault target (or they'll just stand around).

I've done this myself with ai_goal_assault so don't tell me it doesn't work.
You just need to mess around with it a bit.
It's a mess really.
You will need "OnSpawn" outputs which are targeted to the ai_goal_assault and stuff like that, eventually it will work.
Im on my laptop so I can't give you any exact details.
Give me some time and I might make another example.

I heard somewhere in the forum that you can use an ai_goal_follow targeted at the player as well, to make them hunt the player down, but I have never tried this myself.

Lol, this is explained in that Noesis Level Design DVD. It comes with an example map...