Ahhhh..
I see... I was wondering how you would seperate those out..
Open points versus group assigned points.. That way a wandering mob could be tied to a group of waypoints, or in an open waypoint area.. Big open zones (say the Karanas) could have a limited number of waypoints, basically just vertex points across the maps, and the mob could either traverse them in a random waypoint to waypoint fashion. In grouped waypoint areas, they would need to follow a least cost traversal.. I knew that Dystras algorithem would come in handy oneday ! lol..
I would think in the open zones it would be easy to implement, just make a file or database layout with a list of waypoints, then have the mobs that are assigned as wanderers randomly move between them. The client should take care of the z axis.
In more limited areas you would need to define the waypoints as you walked it, and assign it to a waypoint group, then tie specific mobs to that waypoint group.
I could see an ingame #waypoint <waypointgroup> that would dump the loc. when you hit it, and tie it to that waypoint group identifer.
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