not getting much more help on beginners topics, decided to try here. Does anyone, ANYONE, know of a script or tell me how to modify an EXISTING script so that I can have a friendly AI player that follows the player around and attacks enemies. It doesn't have to throw grenades, run away, etc, just follow and shoot. PLEASE! Thanks

Why dont you take the manual an try to write the code by yourself? its not that difficult and with not too much WORK you should come to an good result....

Sorry but if you want to make a game you have to work for, not to let work for.....

I have been trying to write one, and it still doesn't work, don't think I'm lazy it's just that I've spent the past MONTH trying to get it to work. I know I've got to try to combine the ACTOR_FOLLOW script with a few TRACE commands and use IF to evaluate the response but I can't get anything to work.

I don't think you are lazy but you are underestimating the work required to create even a simple AI.

Looking for an example from somebody else is a good idea (do a search, I think there was one floating around a while back). You should also take a good long look at the tutorial in the user manual. It has a simple enemy AI example. Once you figure out how the enemy AI works (preferably by writing your own) then you should be able to modify it to fight for the player.

Programming AI is not easy, but it can be very rewarding. Good luck.

Thanks Doug.

I tried an AI tutorial and got errors, ent_cycle was mucking up the animation and nothing would work.

I'm trying to combine the FlyingSword script (from Acknex Mag) and ACTOR_FOLLOW to get that to work.

Everyone keeps saying that this is easy to program but I don't see how it's so easy...

man, don't use scripts pre-fabricated, write all script that you will use..its betther and allow you control much better your game.