Help getting NPC to attack

[chrbarrol]

If i want to force an npc to find the nearest player and attack him how to i do it? not from the npcs code but from an independent lua file.

[foszor]

You could try
[lua]
npc:SetEnemy( ply );
npc:SetLastPosition( ply:GetPos() );
npc:SetSchedule( SCHED_CHASE_ENEMY );
[/lua]

[Killer_Steel]

Wouldn't that just make it track the very first enemy that triggers it's code? He said closest so wouldn't you do a CheckInSphere for the closest player perhaps?

[Entoros]

Why would you need to set the schedule? Wouldn't just setting the enemy be sufficient?

[foszor]

[QUOTE=Killer_Steel;16060980]Wouldn't that just make it track the very first enemy that triggers it's code? He said closest so wouldn't you do a CheckInSphere for the closest player perhaps?[/QUOTE]

I didn't realize he hasn't even found the closest enemy yet, I was showing him a method to make it attack.