Changing the running speed of AI

[Inferno]

I'm working on some... things... right now and I need to make the flood infection forms and elite energy sword carriers run faster but I can't find anything about movement speed in the globals or biped tag. Neither in the actor or actor variant tag.

edit-
I spelled running wrong....

[teh lag]

AI movement, unlike player biped movement, is controlled directly via animations (specifically by the root node). You'll need to edit them if you want to make an AI move faster/slower.

[Inferno]

Lolwut? Why did bungie do that?

[Donut]

how does that work? like... how do you know how fast the ai will move?

[teh lag]

It's a far more logical system for AIs which don't need the same kind of control that players do - espeically for bipeds like Flood which need irregular movement, or for special animations like melees or grenade throws.

NINJAEDIT : @ Donut, it's quite literally how much they move in 3ds. Nothing special to it.

[Inferno]

well anyways how hard would it be for me to increase the running speed of those 2 bipeds. I know how to extract and inject animations directly into the animation tag.

[teh lag]

I mean, how hard does it sound? Just import the anim into 3ds, re-scale the time/do whatever, export and recompile.

[Inferno]

Just wondering if I would have to edit multiple animations like the lunging attack and jumping animation etc etc.

[itszutak]

Just wondering if I would have to edit multiple animations like the lunging attack and jumping animation etc etc.
Only the ones you want to go faster. Most of the non-movement ones (IE, melee and shooting) seem fast enough, though.

[BobtheGreatII]

Seems hard.

Get someone else to do it for you, it seems to be the common trend in these forums lately.