In the thread about centering a players pitch, it was reported that adding an empty AI file to a player's template allows the AISetLookPos() verb to affect the player. What I want to know/see if we can figure out is if there's a way to use COG to allow the AI verbs to affect the player without needing levels with a modified player template.

I haven't started any testing on this. My ideas are to ParseArg() an aiclass onto the player or use AISetClass() (which I suspect won't work on a standard player because the template lacks an AI file to begin with).

If anyone has any experience with this junk please post what you know and any conclusions you made.

QM

Well, if it's for a mod, what's wrong with changing the walkplayer template so it already has an empty AI file defined in it?

The level template itself would have to be modified. Well, I can try a quick test...

From my tests, with several methods and several AI's (blank and otherwise), I couldn't get any of them to have an effect, one way or another (that includes allowing AISetLookPos() to work...), as far as cogbased methods go, at least.

What exactly did you do for your test? Did you use parsearg, a mod (static.jkl), or just a new level with a changed template?

Can't the static.jkl templates override the level templates if they have the same name? I think I did this once on accident but I'm not sure.