Chasing player on navmesh

[santokkiParticipant]

If I want an enemy to chase the player all over the navmesh even if the player moves behind obstacles, do I just make a Navigation Target the child of the player, and have the enemy AI always moving toward that Navigation Target?

Is there a better way to do this without using a Navigation Target and just using the player’s transform directly?

Thank you

[primeKeymaster]

Sure. Do just what you said - use the player’s transform/game object directly. Variables that contain transforms/game objects are valid move targets for move nodes.

For example, when you use a sensor and enter a variable name in the Form Variable field, it’s the game object that gets bound.

[santokkiParticipant]

Can you clarify? I want the enemy to avoid obstacles.

It seems using the player’s transform directly doesn’t allow the enemy to chase the player around obstacles. I used the Move action using the player’s transform as the target and the enemy will make a beeline for the player and walk into a brick wall and keep smashing into it forever.

But if I make a Navigation Target the target, then the enemy will deftly avoid all obstacles to get to the target.

[primeKeymaster]

Something else must be going on. For RAIN, there’s no difference between the two methods. Do you have a project you can share that demonstrates the problem? Also, are you using the very latest RAIN? (2.1.6)

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