Hey all,

I'm having an issue with an enemy entitiy, I'm trying to give them gravity. Basically I'm trying to make it so that his z makes sure it traces to the floor. but it doesn't seem to work. Here's my code: is there a better way to do this?


I appreciate any help you can provide.


action dummy
{
var distance_traced;
var movement_speed;

temp.z -= 4000; // set temp.z 5000 quants below player's origin
distance_to_ground = c_trace (my.x, temp.x, ignore_me | use_box);
movement_speed.z = - (distance_to_ground - 10); // 17 = experimental value
movement_speed.z = max (-35 * time, movement_speed.z); // 35 = falling speed

}

Look OK to me, youve sucessfully worked out the distance to ground,
but you havent actually moved him yet?
Whats the c_move command look like?

Shouldn't your enemy use a while(1) loop?

yeah, a while loop should be helpfull xD

you want to check the floor under the entity, so you have to set the temp vector to the position of the entity first before you can subtract a value from the z-coordinate.


consider that if the var distance_to_ground is 0 the trace didn't found anything and the entity have to fall although
take a look: c_move()

Why do you use WDL-scripts???

because not everyone can afford to upgrade to A7