how to deal with stuck/movement loops tasks?

[Maniyak]

the moveTo/moveWithin tasks seem to do little to nothing to prevent the player from getting stuck. unfortunately i am not able to add such a function since the pathing runs as task and i did not figure out a way to do some checks while moving.

blacklisting does not work because often the taks never ends so i never have a chance to do it. like when running up a steep slope and the character is running, falling/sliding down a bit, running again -> always resets the pathing because it "falling without jumping - resetting path". not sure why this happens in the first place. would be easy to check for such things, but again, not while the task is running.

i saw that the moveWithin function has an overload with something that sounds like a condition that could exit the task but i could not figure out how to use it in such a way.

the only thing i can think of is doing my own version of the pathing functions by manually starting/stopping/running/turning and adjusting the movement every pulse. that together with some path finding and sanity checks should do the trick but is probably more laggy. but that would require a function that tells me if a certain point on the map is within the navigation mesh. is there something like that?

is there anything i am missing or maybe someone has found a way and wants to point me in the right direction, either way i would really appreciate some help.

 

[Deathdisguise]

Just needs a lambda function! It's possible to do stuck handling inside of it, but you'd see more benefits using a method outside of the coroutine, I'd imagine.

await CommonBehaviors.MoveWithin(
    // Other parameters...

    cancellation: () => 
    {
        if (condition)
            return true;

        return false;
    }
);

 

[Maniyak]

thank you, i guess i could do my checks inside the task and blacklist the area/actor or something if it fails.

do you know of any way to check if a certain point on the map is within the nav mesh? only way i can think of right now is let moveWithin generate the path to a specific point, exit task as soon as it has started and check if the end/last hop and their locations (which should be close to my specified point) are walkable. but i hope there is an easier and faster way

 

[Deathdisguise]

thank you, i guess i could do my checks inside the task and blacklist the area/actor or something if it fails.

do you know of any way to check if a certain point on the map is within the nav mesh? only way i can think of right now is let moveWithin generate the path to a specific point, exit task as soon as it has started and check if the end/last hop and their locations (which should be close to my specified point) are walkable. but i hope there is an easier and faster way

You will probably want to look at the World class.

 

[Maniyak]

You will probably want to look at the World class.

perfect, exactly what i was looking for, thanks