Slight tweaks, but it occurs to me that the main movepath point-to-ground stuff isn't working just now regardless

Author: Causeless

Source/Entities/Actor.cpp

@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ void Actor::OnNewMovePath() {
 		std::list<Vector>::iterator nextItr = m_MovePath.begin();
 		for (std::list<Vector>::iterator lItr = m_MovePath.begin(); lItr != finalItr; ++lItr) {
 			nextItr++;
-			smashedPoint = g_SceneMan.MovePointToGround((*lItr), m_CharHeight * 0.2, 0, g_SettingsMan.GetPathFinderGridNodeSize() * 2);
+			smashedPoint = g_SceneMan.MovePointToGround((*lItr), m_CharHeight * 0.2, 0, g_SettingsMan.GetPathFinderGridNodeSize() * 2.0f);
 
 			// Only smash if the new location doesn't cause the path to intersect hard terrain ahead or behind of it
 			// Try three times to halve the height to see if that won't intersect

Source/System/PathFinder.cpp

@@ -361,7 +361,8 @@ void PathFinder::AdjacentCost(void* state, std::vector<micropather::StateCost>*
 					break;
 				}
 
-				totalMaterialCost += 1.0F + extraUpCost + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->UpMaterial) * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
+				float extraJumpCost = i * i * 0.5F; // Exponential cost increase for jumping higher
+				totalMaterialCost += 1.0F + extraUpCost + extraJumpCost + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->UpMaterial) * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
 
 				adjCost.cost = totalMaterialCost;
 				adjCost.state = static_cast<void*>(currentNode->Up);
@@ -385,7 +386,8 @@ void PathFinder::AdjacentCost(void* state, std::vector<micropather::StateCost>*
 					break;
 				}
 
-				totalMaterialCost += 1.4F + (extraUpCost * 1.4F) + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->UpRightMaterial) * 1.4F * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
+				float extraJumpCost = i * i * 0.5F; // Exponential cost increase for jumping higher
+				totalMaterialCost += 1.4F + (extraUpCost * 1.4F) + (extraJumpCost * 1.4f) + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->UpRightMaterial) * 1.4F * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
 
 				adjCost.cost = totalMaterialCost;
 				adjCost.state = static_cast<void*>(currentNode->UpRight);
@@ -404,7 +406,8 @@ void PathFinder::AdjacentCost(void* state, std::vector<micropather::StateCost>*
 					break;
 				}
 
-				totalMaterialCost += 1.4F + (extraUpCost * 1.4F) + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->LeftUpMaterial) * 1.4F * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
+				float extraJumpCost = i * i * 0.5F; // Exponential cost increase for jumping higher
+				totalMaterialCost += 1.4F + (extraUpCost * 1.4F) + (extraJumpCost * 1.4f) + (GetMaterialTransitionCost(*currentNode->LeftUpMaterial) * 1.4F * 3.0F) + radiatedCost;
 
 				adjCost.cost = totalMaterialCost;
 				adjCost.state = static_cast<void*>(currentNode->LeftUp);