Hi Ronny, thanks for your fast answer.
I sit the whole day at home and asked me how jou get the PoV's.
But now it's clear, the Mapper has to set them (I understodd you've made a script which set it itself).
It's no bad idea and I think it is the only way to get a good Pathfinding-AI in a Level with normal "Map-Walls".
But I guess you're Pov's will ignore moving Entities in the Level. I think we need a Script which is a combination of different Pathfinding-Algorithms.
For the Entities my (yet not finished) Entity-Pathfinding (of course in use of the MAX_X/Y/Z-Values) could help, and for Terrain I start a Script.
I hope in future A5-Versions there will be an IGNORE_TERRAIN for tracing_mode, than I can combine my Entity-Pathfinding and Terrain-Pathfinding.

So on, we will see...

Hi Iblis,

right using PoV's mainly deals with obstacle avoidance, it can't deal with moving entities, but that is easy and i have already resolved that (using trace).

greetings Ronny

I've used something like a "Robust Trace",too (for entities).

So, we will see how effective your A* will be. The Heuristic is one of the most interesting thinks in it! For Terrain-Pathfinding you need it,too. I hope I can develop a good one

Hi Iblis,

yeah the heuristic is an interesting part ... however until the algorythm fully works, i don't do any tweaking and tuning, so i will use the geometrical distance to start with.

greetings Ronny

this may be old news, but viperbyte put out ALL of the Winthrops mansion wdl code for download, for free. it is really good, but it just works with A5, i think. (thats why i orderd A5, its comming in a couple days!! )
anyway, you can look at that. they have some pretty good AI. it may help...
here's the link:
Here
or if that one doesn't work, click here: http://a4a5.hypermart.net/Interview_V_B_/WM_WDL.zip
hope this helps ya'll.
now i'm off to read the new version of the user magazine... till later!
-merlingames

Didn't know that yet. thanks for the link.

sure! anytime.
-merlingames

errr...
you wanna run that by me again in English?
i can't figure out if you just dissed me or not.... *sniff*
-merlingames
p.s. if you dissed me i gotta dis you back... working.... working....

This project seems to have come to a halt. Has everybody given up?