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While working on the movement changes, I temporarily added code to path around func_statics, ignoring AI attachments. I didn't notice much of a decrease in FPS, but on my slow system, I might not have noticed more degradation. I decided an AI should only consider a func_static in its path when it was bumping into that func_static. There is a tremendous amount of code in path-finding, and it happens every frame for every moving AI that's not using interleaved thinking. Anything we can do to limit this is worth it. In the future, it might be worth investigating whether the AI need to pathfind every frame. Not much of the world is going to change each frame, so perhaps doing pathfinding every 5 frames would suffice. At that point, an AI could consider all func_statics in its way. |
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I'm resolving this as "won't fix" since allowing it to happen causes all kinds of problems. Mappers can just use monsterclip to keep AI out of trouble. |
- Anonymous
