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Announce News Post #2276

Pathfinding Improvements

Written by: Oleis, the Infused
Date: Monday, May 26th, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone


Hey guys. I've released some huge improvements to the in-game
pathfinding system. These are still experimental and in-progress, so
feel free to offer suggestions and be prepared for the occasional
hiccup. Essentially, what I aim to do is better integrate mappers with
our in-game pathfinding, and potentially lessen the reliance on external
autowalkers. Our in-game pathfinding is much more efficient than
external mappers' method of spamming Aetolia with movement commands.
Unfortunately, the flipside is that external mappers are much more
flexible than our systems, and it's much easier to personalize. Here's
what I'm trying to do for now:

- You may now PATH GO DASH, PATH GO SPRINT, or PATH GO GALLOP after
finding a path in order to dash or gallop as appropriate.
- You may now PATH SET <path> in order to feed the game a custom path.
Your path must be comma-separated. Spaces after commas are irrelevant.
In addition to basic cardinal directions, you may use the following
commands:
+ WARP or WORM WARP to use a wormhole.
+ DUANATHAR or DUANATHARAN for clouds_flight and aboveclouds_flight,
respectively. The SAY is optional.
+ VOLTDA or VOLTDARAN for caves_burrow and belowcaves_burrow,
respectively. Again, the SAY is optional.

The game will validate the path you enter, including following through
the above special exits. If you have an invalid exit in your path, it
will let you know where the error is and how you went wrong. Currently,
DASH, SPRINT and GALLOP are not supported as valid directions within the
path. However, inserting the directions and using PATH GO DASH will
accomplish the same effect.

While they may seem like basic features, they required some pretty
significant changes to the way our autowalker works. Please keep an eye
out for weird behaviors and let me know by message or in the forum
thread if you find something bizarre.

Oleis

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Slyphian, in the year 420 MA.


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