apathing

jdoran · #1 12-28-2012, 09:14 PM

Thanks for the information. I somehow had the idea that packet captures and zone geometry were used for this sort of thing, but I only have a couple of zones I'm worried about at the moment. In a way, I feel that I have a better understanding of the pathing this way.

I went to Highkeep and depopped the zone (#depopzone), then spawned nodes for the path points. Running around the zone gave me an idea of how the paths worked. The path-map viewer is nice. For anyone interested in playing with it, it wants to be in your EQ top directory. I just created a Maps folder underneath the viewer, and it was happy.

jdoran · #2 12-29-2012, 02:46 AM

I have one follow-up question. I built a path file for Crescent Reach, and I'm not sure how one goes about testing them. I could aggro a mob and drag it all over the place, but I'm not sure how much of the pursuit was path related as opposed to line of sight.

I did an #aggrozone, and other than having a billion mobs chasing me I didn't learn much. There was too many of them to notice where they were running.

Anyone who is interested in the file may have a copy, keeping in mind that this is my first attempt at a path file and I may have done some silly things.

Anyhow my question is: How do I test these paths?

image · #3 12-29-2012, 03:22 AM

If you are doing it manually through #path add it actually takes those into account on the fly. So you are essentially building a map of nodes for the npc's to follow (eg. pathing). Just have a mob aggro and see how he follows you... It should be pretty obvious when he is going for a node (when they lose line of sight to you) since it will not be directly pathing at you.

If you happen to see mobs start moving through walls or something like that you know there are more nodes required.

jdoran · #4 12-29-2012, 09:18 AM

The problem I was having with this approach was that if the mob doesn't have LOS to me, am I going to be able to watch it? Otherwise, watching a single mob seems the logical approach.

My solution (for anyone searching the forums later) was to log in a second GM account. Target a mob with one GM, run to some obscure hiding spot. Then agro the mob (#damage 1). Follow the incoming mob with the second GM account.

So far things look great.

Thanks for the help.