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D-Cire
6:16 pm
Get step was basically checking if its in front of the user before attacking, you dont want to attack someone behind you. Lol. Im unsure exactly what bounds_dist does, i figured it just checked if it was in 32 pixels of you it would come up true.
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Monday, 12:52 pm
My first guess is the "else if(src.Target in get_step(src,src.dir))" line. I'm actually not sure what that part is for - if you've reached that point you know that the bounds_dist to the target is >= 32. That else if and the else at the end might not even be necessary.
D-Cire
Monday, 12:38 pm
that works for the most part, but upon running north/south then east/west it spazzes again.
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Monday, 7:30 am
My initial guess was the first line that says "src.Target=null". You're clearing the mob's target when they get close to their target. I'd think you'd want to switch to some different behavior here (ex: attacking) but keep the target set.

It appears to work for me but I had to make some adjustments to get it working. I put this code in the mob's action() proc:

mob
    enemy
        action()
            ..()
            
            if(src.Target)
                if(bounds_dist(src, src.Target) < 32 && !move_towards(src.Target))
                    src.Target = null
                    stop()
                    slow_down()
                    return
                
                src.dir = get_dir(src, src.Target)
                
                if(get_dist(src.Target, src) > 8)
                    src.Target = null
                
                else if(src.Target in get_step(src,src.dir))
                    // sleep(5)
                    stop()
                    slow_down()
                else
                    move_towards(src.Target)
            
            if(!src.Target)
                for(var/mob/M in oview(8, src))
                    if(M.key)
                        src.Target = M
                        // sleep(10)
                        break
D-Cire
Feb 17, 7:24 pm 
while(src)
            if(src.Target)
                if(bounds_dist(src,src.Target) < 32 && !move_towards(src.Target))
                    src.Target=null
                    stop()
                    slow_down()
                    continue
                src.dir=get_dir(src,src.Target)
                //src.Fight()
                if(!ListCheck(src.Target,oview(8)))
                    src.Target=null
                else if(src.Target in get_step(src,src.dir))
                    sleep(5)
                    stop()
                    slow_down()
                else
                    move_towards(src.Target)
            if(!src.Target)
                for(var/mob/M in oview(8))
                    if(M.key)
                        src.Target=M
                        sleep(10)
                        break


"Spazzes out" As in doesn't look at the direction of the Target and instead flickers around in the 4 base directions while moving towards the target. Does the same thing while next to the target.

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