Specialized AI Bot

Hello again everyone! Once again I need assistance from all the brilliant Torque minds here :) I've been looking at this problem for a week and can't make heads or tails of it.

I'm having trouble with my AI bot, called FirewoodGuy. He's supposed to be a subclass of the regular AI bots. I want him to see if the player is within a certain distance, and if he is, the FWGuy should yell at him to not steal firewood. When I create the bot in spawnOnPath, I first created a new FirewoodGuy, but the console gave me an error saying I couldn't instantiate a non-cons class (not sure what that means). So I created it as a new AIPlayer, with the FWGuy datablock associated, but now when I try to call FWGuy functions, the console gives me a message that the function cannot be found. And then it shows an inheritance hierarchy chain, which goes from Player on up. I'm probably going about creating my bot incorrectly, but how can I get it to recognize the functions that are associated with FWGuy?

Here's the code:

datablock PlayerData(FirewoodGuy)
{
shapeFile = "~/data/shapes/player/player.dts";
};

function FirewoodGuy::spawn(%name,%spawnPoint)
{
// Create the demo player object
%player = new AIPlayer() {
dataBlock = FirewoodGuy;
path = "";
};
MissionCleanup.add(%player);
%player.setShapeName(%name);
%player.setTransform(%spawnPoint);
return %player;
}

function FirewoodGuy::spawnOnPath(%name,%path)
{
echo("spawning fire guy");
// Spawn a player and place him on the first node of the path
if (!isObject(%path))
return;
%node = %path.getObject(0);
%player = FirewoodGuy::spawn(%name,%node.getTransform());
%player.followPath( "MissionGroup/myPath", -1 );
%player.think();
return %player;
}

function FirewoodGuy::think(%this)
{
if( !isObject( %this.player ) )
%this.player = %this.spawn();
%this.isPlayerInRange(%this);
%this.schedule( 500, think );
}

function FirewoodGuy::getClosestPlayer(%this)
{
%botPos = %this.getPosition();
%playerCount = ClientGroup.getCount();
for(%i = 0; %i < %playerCount; %i++)
{
%player = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
%playerPos = %client.player.getPosition();
%tempDist = VectorDist(%playerPos, %botPos);
if(%i == 0)
{
%dist = %tempDist;
%index = %i;
}
else {
if(%dist > %tempDist) {
%dist = %tempDist;
%index = %i;
}
}
}
return %index;
}

function FirewoodGuy::isPlayerInRange(%this)
{
%player = %this.getClosestPlayer();
%playerPos = %player.getPosition();
%dist = VectorDist(%playerPos, %this.getPosition());
if(%dist <= 20)
{
messageClient(%player.client, 'MsgItemFound', 'Stay away from my stuff!');
}
else
{
messageClient(%player.client, 'MsgItemFound', 'Not in range.');
echo("not in range");
}
}




Just to see what would happen, I also changed the functions think, getClosestPlayer, and isPlayerInRange to be member functions of AIPlayer. When I did that, the functions were found, but the getPosition calls in the isPlayerInRange and getClosestPlayer calls resulted in the following error messages in my console log:

demo/server/scripts/FirewoodGuy.cs (116): Unable to find object: '' attempting to call function 'getPosition'
demo/server/scripts/FirewoodGuy.cs (136): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getPosition

And BTW, I borrowed some of this code from a helpful resource I found on scripting advanced AI bots, posted by Stefan Beffy Moises.

Thanks everyone!