Make the enemy follow a point

[JasonX]

I'm working on a small Tower Defense mod for Q1 and i'm trying to make dogs and enforcers to follow a specific entity in the map and attack it. I could not find any examples of this, other than following the player. Is there a way to attack something else, other than the player?

[ceriux]

i assume it would be the same way but enemy wouldnt be the player.

[JasonX]

Can i set any entity as the enemy? And how do i make the AI find the best path to the enemy? Is there an AI tutorial for path finding, without path helpers?

[ceriux]

i havent really messed with ai. so i dont really know. i know if you use quakes basic AI it may or may not get caught on corners and what not.

[frag.machine]

Yes, a monster can attack other entities (even in vanilla Quake - see monsters infight). All you need is to set the .enemy field.
Navigation without path_corners is more complicated.

[r00k]

i was doing something like this on a test zombie mod.
in just an open field i was using tracelines to find a player and stepping forward and turning at a set rate based in the health of the entity. but once u add bsp objects thing get tricky

[frag.machine]

Well the very concept of navigation is to find a way thru obstacles...
The obvious way in Quake is to use path_corners, specially if the target is fixed.

[JasonX]

[frag.machine]