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Oh... bad news indeed.

My main hard drive crashed yesterday. Luckly, I'm pretty careful about backing up my files. Most everything I have is on CD. Also, the drive is now in the hands of a data recovery expert, so if it's possible for me to retrieve my files, I will.

The source code for the pathfinding .dll was on the hard drive and wasn't backed up. If the data recovery guy fails to get any information, then sadly the pathfinding code might be lost. I'm optimistic that I'll get the files back.

In any case, it may be a few days before I'm back up and running. I'll need to buy a new drive, install windows, and basically get my environment back up and running. If you don't hear from me in a while, you'll know why!!

[By the way, this won't affect Game Beep, which is completely backed up and also mirrored on the server.]

Cheers!
- Bret

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and you can make a A5 version of the dll

<< very insisting

// Call pf_to_ent.  This pathfinding routine takes two entity pointers as
// arguments.  They are the source and target entity.  The routine calculates
// the shortest path to the target, and sets the direction that the source 
// entity needs to go in order to reach it's target.
// (See documentation for more information)

pf_to_ent(my, dst_ent);

	
// If I weren't using pf_smooth_turn, this is how I would turn my entity to
// face the correct distance:
//
// my.pan  = my._PF_PAN_TO_TARGET;
// my.tilt = my._PF_TILT_TO_TARGET; // <- don't set for first person shooters
// my.roll = my._PF_ROLL_TO_TARGET; // <- don't set for first person shooters

// Call pf_smooth_turn to have the pathfinding .dll turn your entity for you
// in the direction of the next target node (or target entity). If you decide
// to use the pf_smooth_turn feature, you may wish to increase the node
// collision distance by calling pf_set_node_collision_distance(); Increasing
// the node collision distance will result in the actor starting it's turn
// earlier, which is a good idea if the turn takes longer because of the
// smoothing.

turn_speed = 10 * time;

pf_smooth_turn(my, VECTOR(my._PF_PAN_TO_TARGET,0,0), turn_speed);

	while(1)
	{
		if (key_u)
		{
			level_load("pathfind_level2.WMB");
			wait(1);
			pf_init_nodes();
		}
		wait(1);
	}