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This seems to be a general bug. If you have an AI doing something on a path_node (like turning) and disturb him, he will repeat his path_node turning actions without going first back to his original position. Instead he will simply repeat the action where he comes out of the alert. Happened to me in No Honor Amongst Thieves with the guard turning in the tunnel. After disturbing him he stood under a bright light, turning there from now and then, making it almost impossible later to get by him - had to distract him again with sound to lure him away. |
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From some notes on the AI Movement Changes Beta thread: If he's interrupted while sitting (or turning, or waiting, or whatever), and he comes down off alert later, he should look at his current path entity, and if it's not a path_corner, he should skip it and look at the next one, etc. etc. until he finds a path_corner. Then he should go there. That should work better than making him go back to his previous path entity. I haven't looked to see if the previous path entity that's saved is actually a corner, or whether it could be any of the multiple path entities. If it's not a corner, then going back to it won't give us what we want. |
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The stored previous path entity is not used anywhere other than to help determine if the AI is patrolling. So it doesn't matter what it is. So, I've commandeered it to only be the most recent path_corner. This lets me implement Fidcal's request that an AI who leaves a door queue because he's been there too long retreat back to where he came from. Since it's now a path_corner, an AI coming off an alert can be sent there and be guaranteed that path entities that aren't corners will be executed in the correct order. |
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I reproduced the problem in 1.02. In 1.03 (and in today's SVN) I couldn't reproduce the problem. The guard would either return to the pew to sit properly, facing the correct direction, or walk to the other path_corner, turn, and return to the pew. It didn't matter whether I fired the noisemaker when he was sitting, or walking toward the pew, or walking away from it. Looks like this was inadvertently fixed in 1.03. |
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