Thanks a lot. I am looking forward to your next update...

Hey, I had a minor breakthrough today and finally caught a tricky bug. To celebrate, I'm happy to post a small video of my progress. Note that this extra pathfinding took me absolutely NO effort in my c-script. It's all handled within the .dll. Although I'm technically using A* for the complicated movement, you don't need to set up an A* style grid in your level. Very cool. You do still need to place the pathfinding nodes, just like in the original version.

Once I do some more testing, I'll try to make a more impressive video where more of the entities move around.

Here's the video:
http://www.gamebeep.com/temp/pf.avi

Don't get too excited! It's still going to take me a while before testing is done, and there's always a chance that another clever bug awaits me!

Cheers!
- Bret

Hey thanks for all your hard work man... you're making some nice progress here.

Hmmm... what codec do you need to play that video?

Yea, I'd like to know to.. I opened it in winamp and it crashed. When I tried opening winamp again it crashed again probably because the file still was in my playlist so I reinstalled winamp.

u can open it with windows media player 10

It's DIVX encoded... and I apologize for the strange format. I was really trying to keep the size down. Thanks for the note, TripleX !

Hi clone45

Is your pathfinding code going ahead? I am awaiting it eagerly...

Hi Snake!

I'm still stuck on some very nasty bugs when doing the A*. Tell ya what.. I'll try to fix the issue that you had next time I work on it instead of trying to fix the new features. I'll keep you posted!! I recently landed a full time job, so it slowed down development considerably. I'm still on it though!

Cheers!
- Bret

Thanks clone45, good luck!

Hi Clone45
I've tried your ez_Path and it's really nice..
I've done a more or less the same Path finding technique using scripts a couple of months ago, but yet didnt complete it to consider Entity blockage during movement as you did.

I have one comment however after testing your ez_path. If a path is blocked, the algorithm wouldn't find alternative paths, and thus its movement is blocked.

Good contribution, thank you