Looking to cancel current path, what is best way?

#1

I have animals that randomly move around using the random path function. I want them to check their surroundings and if a predator shows up, flee. I know how to check surroundings and such but how do I cancel whatever AIPath is doing at the moment and tell it to Flee? Looking for the best way to force AIPath to clear what its up to.

Make sense?

#2

Hi

You can disable ai.canSearch which will make sure it does not try to recalculate its path again, and then you can make it use a path that you give it using ai.SetPath.
Something like this:

RandomPath t = RandomPath.Construct (transform.position, 500000);
t.spread = 5000;
ai.SetPath(t);

I recommend that you do not explicitly try to cancel whatever it is doing because then it will do nothing in the few frames that the path is being calculated.