Make use of AI path finding for houseguests and pets to avoid going right through obstacles

PseudoHyena

I think there should be an option to use path finding to create more interesting paths for houseguests and pets, so they won't go right through objects. The way I suggest it to work is that path finding should preferable way of going, but if they can't find path to a particular location a default way should be used.
As a gameplay developer myself I'm sure it's easy to do.

thorwyn

As a gameplay developer myself I'm sure it's easy to do.

As a gameplay developer, you should know that pathfinding is one of the more complicated things in any 3d game, especially with dynamically placed objects.

PseudoHyena

thorwyn wrote: »

As a gameplay developer myself I'm sure it's easy to do.

As a gameplay developer, you should know that pathfinding is one of the more complicated things in any 3d game, especially with dynamically placed objects.

It is not one of the more complicated things to do by any means, especially nowadays, at least not from implementation stand point, more of optimization, but that's another story. But the thing you didn't consider is that it is already implemented and functions in the game, and that's what I meant by easy to do: you just need to call those functions, that move NPCs to their destination, here as well.