DieHard Wolfers

[Barry]

I am having trouble placing moving guards. Say I place a number of guards to circle a room or area, and the turns are placed appropriately so they all walk fine...for a while. No matter what I do, all my guards eventually end up bunched up together. This is why in my earlier add-ons, I refrained from using moving guards for the most part, but I am out to change that for this time as moving guards can add a lot to the atmosphere. Can somebody help?

[Tricob]

The problem you describe is called the "Gliding Guards Bug", which Chris has posted a bugfix for in these forums. You'll always have to keep the guards at least two squares apart though, to allow for turns and opening doors.

[Thomas]

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[Dean]

Thats strange, I had guards walking next to each other in both the same and opposite directions in a number of places in EFCH and in all the testing that was done this never came up once.. hmmm.

I remember in one of AReyeP's MMC levels he had like 6 SS guards walking next to each other and that never happened either.

I think as long as you aren't crossing paths then I can't see why this causes a problem.

[Tricob]

When you have them right next to each other, I believe that they fall one square behind each other when the one in front turns. If you lay it out right, their "falling behind" doesn't cause a problem.

As for the "gliding guard" problem, it appears at random. If I remember the numbers correctly, the code chooses a random number between 1 and 22, when it should be Zero to 21. When it gets a random number it shouldn't, the moving guard turns into a "gliding guard", which moves twice as fast as the others of the same type. His extra speed also makes his animation cease, hence the name "gliding guard". He quickly overtakes the others in the path, until he stops moving altogether. Then when he stops moving, the other guards in the moving loop soon line up against him, one right after another, all trying to move, and being unable to do so. You'll notice that whenever they're all lined up against each other, the one in front is never animated. Now you know why.

Note that if you've first started to play a map, the guards haven't "lined up" yet. It takes a minute or so before the "gliding guard" bug becomes a problem for the other "movers", and some maps the bug doesn't occur at all, especially if there are few moving guards altogether.

[Thomas]

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[Tricob]

I think only the Mutants and Brown Guards share the same speed. Strangely, the enemy's overall physical speed doesn't decrease or increase the speed in which it goes from one firing frame to the next (It just seems like it). Note how - if you take away the "reloading" frame from the SS - he fires the same exact speed as the Mutants.