Follow() not following

[YouGroove]

I made a custom AI script for soldier and i called Follow() in start , even put it in physic loop.

Soldier has character physics with mass , it is enabled, it has player as target in script and navmesh is build for the level

 

self.entity:Follow(self.target.entity,self.speed,self.maxaccel)

 

Any idea ?

 

[YouGroove]

Ok i should read the Command reference some times

Returns true if a path can be plotted to the target entity, otherwise false is returned.

But "follow" name command is misleading for me, a name like canReach() ro reachable() would make more sense.

[beo6]

No. Follow does indeed lets a character follow another entity. So the name is correct. That it returns if a route could be calculated or not is just an addition so you can check if following is even possible.

 

So that it does not work must have another reason.

 

My first guess is that self.target.entity is not really your entity.

 

When you have Script.target=nil--entity "Target" in your script self.target is already your entity.

So the correct call would be

self.entity:Follow(self.target,self.speed,self.maxaccel)

 

If that does not help you can post your code and maybe we can find your problem?

[YouGroove]

I made it work with GotoPoint and it worked, then chaging code with Follow worked after that.

if(dist < self.maxDist and dist > self.minDist and self.mode ~="chase") then
 self.mode="chase"	
	 self:updateState("chase")
 self.entity:Follow(self.target,self.speed,self.maxaccel)
end

 

I just find Follow command very unstable even playing with acceleration values, the character some times turns suddenly very fast, or it is some moment like some freezz, also sometimes it continues on trajectory too much and follow the player too late.But it's perhaps better optimized ?