Help! Can't get computer to collect items.

MedaForceMedaForce Member Posts: 2
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
I'm trying to get a computer controlled player to go around a level collecting coins before the human player can collect them. I'm having some trouble trying to get this to work. I've tried a few things but haven't had much success. I've tried the the TargetX/TargetY that is suggested when dealing with having a enemy go after a player but when I tried applying it to multiple coins it just shots upwards collects two and then gets stuck on a wall. Is there maybe someway to have it so it would goto the nearest one?

Also on a small secondary problem, is there anyway to prevent the computer controlled player from just flying around and actually uses the controls that I have programed in for the actual player. The game is a side-scroller platform and not top-down and right now I am using an accelerate to act like gravity and it works great when you have actual humans playing, but when I have the computer take over it seems to ignore it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • MedaForceMedaForce Member Posts: 2
    Bump, Any help :(
  • JeffreyShimaneJeffreyShimane Member Posts: 372
    Maybe you could try use an attribute that tracks which coin is the current target so that the computer-controlled player only has 1 target at any given time. For example, you have an attribute called target that gets incremented +1 each time the computer-controlled player collects a coin. If target=1, the computer-controlled player goes after the first coin. Once the first coin is collected, target gets incremented +1 to 2 so the computer-controlled player goes after the second coin. I've never tried something like this before but maybe having only one target at a time will keep it from getting confused about what the target is. Good luck!

    - Jeff
  • DrGlickertDrGlickert Member Posts: 1,135
    You could try some Magnitude features. However, you have to constrain them and it eats a lot of processor. If you have a ton of coins (like over 50 or so) then it might eat a lot of processor. If it's like 10, then that might be okay.
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