[General] Unit Chase Players

[BeeszBuzz]

Hello, I have a big zombie map. I want the randomly spawning zombies to chase the player, how would I do this?
-TRIED:
-Acquisition range set to 9999999
-Map Initiate, giving zombies vision of entire map.

 

[Radicool]

-TRIED:
-Acquisition range set to 9999999
-Map Initiate, giving zombies vision of entire map.

And what was wrong with this methodology? I personally didn't like this way because I found the AI would always close to the closest player. I wanted everyone to receive more of a share of attackers.

Here is a system I developed for a map one time. It causes the attackers to move to a random unit with the group. It's kind of like a tag map, so I only added the main builder unit from each player within this group.

• Register Aliens
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit enters (Playable map area)
  • Conditions
    • ((Owner of (Triggering unit)) is in AliensPlayerGroup) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Add (Triggering unit) to AlienUnitGroup
    • Set Random_Destination = (Position of (Random unit from Idiots))
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Patrol To Random_Destination
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Random_Destination)

• Alien Movement Update
  • Events
    • Time - Every 16.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in AlienUnitGroup and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Set Random_Destination = (Position of (Random unit from Idiots))
        • Unit - Order (Picked unit) to Patrol To Random_Destination
        • Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_Random_Destination)

With triggers like this, its important to keep track of the "AlienUnitGroup". You don't want to "pick every unit" every 16 seconds. That creates a new unit group every time, and if you have lots of zombies, it could really lag your map. Just manually remove the unit on death:

• Respawn Aliens
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Dies
  • Conditions
    • ((Owner of (Triggering unit)) is in AliensPlayerGroup) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Remove (Triggering unit) from AlienUnitGroup

Your welcome to wait if anyone has a better solution.