New AI for Mobs

[xoft]

Hmm, maybe even better would be to implement the higher level as separate classes, one for each "state". That way, one wouldn't have to implement the same state multiple times in each monster subclass. Then we can simply create an instance of a behavior class and assign it as the mob's current behavior.

So something like:

Code:

class cBehavior
{
  /// Makes the behavior "happen" for the entity. Called every tick for each pawn that has this behavior selected
  virtual void Apply(cPawn & a_Pawn) = 0;
} ;
class cBehaviorFollowPlayer : public cBehavior ... ;
class cBehaviorRunAwayFrom : public cBehavior ... ;

class cMonster
{
  cBehavior & m_CurrentBehavior;
} ;

One more thing that feels like it should be in, the behaviors may need some form of stacking. For example, if a creeper is following a player and at the same time running away from a cat, it would be wise to implement this as two separate behaviors and apply *both* to the creeper. So instead of having cBehavior & m_CurrentBehavior, let's have std::list<cBehavior &> m_CurrentBehaviors;