Is there a way to create path nodes in C-Script?

i.e create path nodes in real time?

TIA for any help

As far as I know: Nope

At least, I cannot find anything about creating path nodes in the manual.

ps: Nice to have you around here from time to time indiGLOW (my nickname back then was "Thunder")

Nodes can be anything.
Basically just a vector and a vector is storable in an array.
So why dont just get a huge array and create some nodes.
For example you can use 3 vars for the position and 4 for the connection ids.

That is how you can get the position or connections out of the array
yourarray[id*7] is the vector
yourarray[id*7+3] is the first connection id
yourarray[id*7+6] iss the last connection id
(and those between guess what xD )
Using this you can create a lot of paths in realtime
you also can use entitys instead of 7 array vars for a node
and use the skills for the connections.

You see there are a lot of possibilitys to make nodes in real time.
Maybe there is a way to create the standard WED paths in real time but since i dont use predefined functions like paths and templates and stuffi dont know.


EDIT: @ Xarthor:
Lol? Define Any-Node, WEDnode?

@Puppeteer:
I guess indiGLOW asked for creating path nodes using scripts. (not sure though)
However I know only the way to create them in wed and read them out using scripts.

So what you mean with:

???

The WED nodes are not the only possibility to create nodes
for example astar nodes are just vectors and pretty much the same as wed nodes (but wed node are undynamic :P )
So createing nodes via array is much better than creaating nodes via wed.

Thanks guys, and a big shout out to my man, Thunder AKA Xarthor

Just to clarify the reason for wanting to create path_nodes in real time was to utilize the scan_path function, a scan designed to only look for path nodes.

This returns a number of variables / pointers that are not returned as easily with standard entity scans. So I was interested if this was supported as it would save time writing a new scan node system as you suggest Puppeteer.

As it is, I have bitten the bullet and am now creating a scan that looks for an entity with the Node flag set, and path find from there.

Still would have been handy to use the scan_path function instead

Thanks for the help, my basic Ai is now implemented and I am improving path finding and object avoidance at the mo.

Thanks again

you can create it very simple
function find_nearest_node()
{
var dist=-1;
var curr_id=0;
var counter=0;
while(counter<numnodes)
{
if(vec_dist(pointarray[counter*7],my.x)<dist||dist<0)//if you use the 7 vars for a node
{
curr_id=counter;
dist=vec_dist(pointarray[counter*7],my.x);
}
counter+=1;
}
return(curr_id);
}