hi few days ago i made a post asking how to create an entity that follows the player.that problem is solved but now it carried a new one: the player get stuck to the new created entity thus doesnt move until the new entity its removed. i tried to flag the new entity as passable but the problem persists. what's worng?

Please post your code so we can have a look at it.

function new entity()
{

while(my)
{


vec_set(my.x, vector(0, 2.6, 5));
vec_rotate(my.x, player.pan);
vec_add(my.x, player.x);
my.pan = player.pan;
move_min_z = 0.4;
planning_time += 1;
if(planning_time > 100)
{
ent_remove(my);
planning_time = 0;
}

this is the function of the new created entity

the new entity appears, follows the player and after some time it dissapears. th problem is that the player get stuck to it and it doesnt walk or if its on the air dont goes down until the the new entity is removed...

Please use code tags when posting code. The above code shouldn't do anything useful at all, but instead remove the entity immediately after it was created because it's missing a wait instruction.

Apart from that move_min_z is written but never read, this is most likely an error.

As you already pointed out yourself you're not setting the entities passable flag. Do that. That will fix the player getting stuck.

Please note that the entity gets removed after 100 frames (I presume that there is a wait that you forgot to paste here). This is not timed correctly and most likely not what you wanted as 100 frames can be different time spans on different machines and circumstances.

yes the code has wait(1) at the end i just pasted the important part. and like i said, if i set the new entity passable or polygon it doesnt work anyway. and i tried to remove the entity with a wait(-3) but that caused some errors.the entity is created near the player. but i tried by creating the entity far away from the player and it works fine, so the problem its when its near it...

function kazooie()
{

while(my)
{

set(me,PASSABLE);
vec_set(my.x, vector(0, 2.6, 5));
vec_rotate(my.x, player.pan);
vec_add(my.x, player.x);
my.pan = player.pan;
planning_time += 1;
if(planning_time > 100)
{
ent_remove(my);
planning_time = 0;
}
wait(1);


}
}

the new entity has to be passable not the player

Again, please use code tags when posting code and indent it properly. Also please edit your posts and do not double post instead.

When you have set the PASSABLE flag but the player still gets stuck you have most likely forgot to set the IGNORE_PASSABLE flag when using c_move in the player's action.

Here is an alternate suggestion to your code which is (at least from my point of view) better readable and fixes the timing problem:

yes, IGNORE_PASSABLE was the missing part i needed. that solved the problem. thx you

You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. :-)