Smooth movement on constant speed actors

jkornoff

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I'm having trouble with my enemy characters and they way they move across the screen. Each character type has a motion atribute set to a constant speed. The problem is that their movements "stutter" from time to time as they travel. I don't think its problem with too many actors on the screen at once because I don't have a lot of actors.

My Player actor works and animates great. It uses the accelerate behavior and doesn't seem to stutter at all.

I don't think my Background stutters, and it too has a constant motion attribute.

Any ideas on how to smooth out the enemy motion? Maybe do away with defining the motion via the actor atributes and move them to a behavior?

rebump

I know when I have actor behaviors that do repeat *very* often on a "Timer" (i.e. "Every 0.5 Seconds", "Every 0.1 Seconds", or some "Timer" MOD conditional, etc.), if there is a rule related to it and the rule conditions are more than one conditional, I sometimes get a stuttering behavior.

You may want to look at some time sensitive repeat rules and see if they are too complex (i.e. maybe related to testing for collisions, implementing a "pause" feature, an "initial configuration" option, etc.).