Heres some thoughts...

I think you need to first establish what the AI is going to be used for as Ai comes in all flavours.
Ai enemy_soldier is the commonest so its easy to assume thats it in this case but is it in the case of the AI.

Having sorted that, you might want to look at what type of 'cue'sytem to implement for variouse way point functions or random breaking and over what distance in entirety the NPC needs to cover.

A top down view is good for this.

Knowing its a hunter/seeker AI and it needs to find player, from where would this begin?

Then arrange your action nodes to form the outline of the path and ready them for thier functions, whatever they may be ( example, generate rockslide so AI avoids and resume, tell AI to stop and look around, fix a path then proceed, here is an angle over the slip limit, assume climb pose and so on....)

Then work out all posible scenarios for encounters, visual hunt the player actions (if player spies on AI)crawl under, climb over, go around etc to finally get a clue on how to create the architechture for the AI to function in.

Im not saying thats how to do it, Im just suggesting as the topic calls for

I didn't test the Code. If you want i could build this into the testlevel

that would be really great fear and thanks for all your help...

fear's code needs this:
action item_act()
{
//in you action or function for the item
items[global_id] = handle(me);
}
to be changed to this:
action item_act()
{
//in you action or function for the item
items[global_id] = handle(me);
global_id ++;
}

I believe.
Use this method. It works. I use it as well to make missiles find the closest enemy automatically...
I believe the crash would be because, as testDummy said, it doesn't check if(you != NULL) after you = ptr_for_handle...

Also, you need to remove the pointer out of the array when the item's picked up or otherwise removed.

ok, but now i get a 'skill' undeclared indentfier in this line:
my.item_handle = items[temp_id];

Extra semicolon third #define line?

You don't need, or must not use, ";" and "=" here:

#define item_handle skill80
#define item_dist = skill81
#define temp_id = skill82;

Isn't there also an event called "event_detect" that detects all scanned entities?

yeah sry for the messed up code. Was writing it in a hurry

ok here is the level. I changed testlevel.c and ix_interface.c. The changes are marked. Press space to find the neares item. If the ai reaches the item, the item is removed and you can press space again to find the nearest item again.

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