OK i am going to explain how to set up ai to use deployable 30cal, mg34s etc.

OK 1st of all if u are using U.S actors only the snow version works - the 1 that says snow_mg30cal, for some reason the normal 30cal guy shoots it like a bar and if u kill him and pick it up it is infact a bar :S .

Anyway down to the good stuff

ok make an actor -- snow_mg30cal for example. Now set up a node were u want him to got to, if u want a 2 step movement or how ever many u want set them up now and put pathnodes (pink1s) between all the nodes and the player to create a path.



Notice that i have not linked the actor or put him on a friendly chain, il explain that later.

for the rest of the radiant stuff wot u do 1st is select ur nodes that u have for where u want the actor 2 go.

key = script_dontdeploy
value - 0 or 1

now want i am wanting here is for the actor 2 reach his 1st node and idle and then go to his 2nd node when i hit a trigger.

the set-up i have is this;

Trigger (ai)/ once -- targetname trig
1st node (any type) -- targetname 1stmove
2nd node (any type) -- targetname deploy
and a path of pathnodes

the 1st node has a script_dontdeploy of 0 and the 2nd has a script_dontdeploy of 1. <-- set up at 2nd point.

the reason i did not link the actor/ friendly_chain is becuase if i do that then he will go to a random node in the f_chain cuasing me to loose control and have to put script_dontdeploy on every node = waste of time. Instead i have targetnames on the nodes, shown above ^.

Then i wrote a small relevent script which is;

#using_animtree ("generic_human");
main()
{
//Fog
setExpFog(.000044, .1, .06, 0.1, 0);
setCullFog (0, 3000, 0.0274, 0.0823, 0.1607, 0 );

maps\_load::main();
maps\_load_gmi::main();

level.player takeallweapons();
level.player giveWeapon("m1garand");
level.player giveWeapon("m1garand");
level.player switchToWeapon("m1garand");
thread move1(); //<-- remember to thread
thread move2();
}

move1()
{

guy1 = getent ("calguy","targetname");

node1 = getnode ("1stmove","targetname"); //<-- move to node

{
if (isalive (guy1) )
{
guy1 setgoalnode (node1);
}

}

}

move2()
{
trig = getent ("trig","targetname");
trig waittill ("trigger");//<-- waits until i hit a trigger before moving from node 1
guy1 = getent ("calguy","targetname");

node1 = getnode ("deploy","targetname"); //<-- move to node

{
if (isalive (guy1) )
{
guy1 setgoalnode (node1);
}

}

}