Zombie Path-finding Stuffs

[ToastedFishSandwich]

Hey there forum-goers. As some of you may know, I've made a mod which duplicates zombies when you kill them. It's pretty cool.

 

For the next version I'm looking to try out a new feature. I want to spawn the zombies a little way away and have them move towards the location of the parent zombie.

my profile picture is bloody terrifying, like, seriously; wtf me?

I haven't got access to my code right now but I'll be able to recall the relevant stuff from memory.

 

Basically the function gets the location of the parent zombie, does some freaky trigonometry to it and spits out a location for the new zombie. I then create it by declaring it as a variable using whatever function creates zombies, something like: "zomb = createZombie(x,y,z)"

 

So I have a variable ("zomb") which is my zombie. I can call functions through it like " z:setX(100) " or whatever else I feel like.

 

What function or series of functions should I use to make a zombie walk, and not teleport, to a set of coordinates? ie " zomb:walkTo(x,y,z) "

[DosBuster]

Y-y'know, naming a variable 'z' is really unclean to be honest. Especially how I'm assuming it's going to be used heavily, gah my ocd.

[ToastedFishSandwich]

Nah it's not used very heavily. It's a local variable right at the end of a function. I literally just need to make it walk to a location. In the current version it's not a variable at all, I just create it and never think about it again. I'm only naming it so I can call some kind of function.

[Fryhizzle]

I agree with DosBuster, especially considering you would be using it for coordinates.

zspawn=x,y,z, seems confusing if you don't know what you are looking at.  Of course that only matters to the guy programming it.

[ToastedFishSandwich]

Okay, zomb. Is that better. It can be called whatever you want, I just need a function or series of functions which can accomplish this task.

[DosBuster]

You should capitalize the Spawn then, that's the usual variable naming condition

[ToastedFishSandwich]

Bump? Is that allowed?

[Deadend]

well, since its a moving object. move() might work http://theindiestone.com/zomboidjavadocs/zombie/iso/IsoMovingObject.html#Move(zombie.iso.Vector2)

It's probably also a good idea to just look at that IsoMovingObject class in general for a solution.

 

Another work around which I believe should be easier to implement is that as soon as you spawn the zombies, create a sound from the player's position (and by sound I mean the type that you can't really hear but zombies can, hypothetically speaking, like when you press Q). If within radius the zombies should start making their way towards the sound (i.e. where the parent zombie was killed).

[EnigmaGrey]

I'd assume you use

PathTo(int x, int y, int z, boolean critical)

[ToastedFishSandwich]

I'd assume you use

PathTo(int x, int y, int z, boolean critical)

 

I assumed that too but all it seemed to do it make zombies lurch directly at the player rather than the coordinates given, in the rare event it does anything at all.

 

well, since its a moving object. move() might work http://theindiestone.com/zomboidjavadocs/zombie/iso/IsoMovingObject.html#Move(zombie.iso.Vector2)

It's probably also a good idea to just look at that IsoMovingObject class in general for a solution.

 

Another work around which I believe should be easier to implement is that as soon as you spawn the zombies, create a sound from the player's position (and by sound I mean the type that you can't really hear but zombies can, hypothetically speaking, like when you press Q). If within radius the zombies should start making their way towards the sound (i.e. where the parent zombie was killed).

 

 

I'll try out move() asap.

 

Thanks to both of you though.