NPC movement

#1 Tell them to move to a spot in front of you instead of to you.

in vector math:

pDest          = player.postion;
vBotToDest     = pDest - bot.position;
vBotToDestNorm = normalize(vBotToDest);
vBackOff       = vBotToDestNorm * <the backoff distance>;
pDest          = pDest - vBackOff;

.. pDest is your new destination.

to convert the above to torquescript,
look up the vector script functions such as vectorAdd(), vectorNormalize() etc.

#2 Thanks Orion!

Once I got the vector math right, the motion turned out just the way I wanted. However, I stumbled upon a different problem. My AIPlayer moves using the setMoveDestination function to start moving. I want the AIPlayer to start an animation upon reaching the point he is supposed to stop at. For some reason, it seems the onReachDestination function isn't being called, which is where I would start the animation. I know it should be getting called because inside the getAIMove function where there is a check to see if the AIPlayer has reached the desired location, there is a throwback to onReachDestination. But I used an echo statement at the beginning of onReachDestination to print something to the console and it isn't printing which leads me to believe it isn't being called. I'm so confused.

Any ideas?

#3 Heya -

hmm, sounds like a bug in the AIPlayer movement stuff.
no ideas off the top other than taking a look at where onReachDestination is called from and seeing why it's not being called.. ;)

#4 I read this somewhere in the forum, you should check for %player.setMoveTolerance(10); when creating AIPlayer