Make enemy follow hero only in 90 degrees (straight lines) ?

POM

Hey ,
Im trying to make my enemy to follow my hero but restrict its movement only to up/down/left/right
meaning without diagonals movements ,
i managed to do this but its kinda choppy in its current status ,
Is there any template for this already ?
Or do you have an idea of how to make it?

Roy.

DimensionGames

WOops my answer was helping with you for just moving character not following sorry

POM

Ill give it a try but ,
The thing is that the hero is constantly moving so the enemy will always try to reach for its Y...

Roy

dmilinovichiii

tshirtbooth said:
hmmm,

What if you told it to move to the players Y first. then once the Y matches it moves to the x. And if the Y changes it goes back to moving to the Y and then to the x again.

just thinking out loud

cheers

Maybe if you edited that and said that when the enemy's Y is within 50 pixels of the character's Y, the enemy tries to match the X of the character. You can edit this farther until it narrows down on the character.

POM

Mr.Rinoy said:
Maybe if you edited that and said that when the enemy's Y is within 50 pixels of the character's Y, the enemy tries to match the X of the character. You can edit this farther until it narrows down on the character.

Yeah that's exactly what I did in the first place, but I'm having issues with this, see let's say there are 5 enemies in the scene, and they all follow the hero with this method, the result make them overlap perfectly so that 5 enemies look like 1..
That's why I'm asking to see if there is a different method ..
Man those "simple" things are hard...
Roy.

MotherHoose

does putting collide on the enemies help???

Rule when Actor receives an event overlaps or collides with actor type enemy
changeAttibute self.Position.X to self.Position.X-20
changeAttibute self.Position.Y to self.Position.Y-20

MH

POM

MotherHoose said:
does putting collide on the enemies help???

Rule when Actor receives an event overlaps or collides with actor type enemy
changeAttibute self.Position.X to self.Position.X-20
changeAttibute self.Position.Y to self.Position.Y-20

MH

Thanks for trying to help MH ,
But i don't see what you are trying to do , if 2 enemies with the above rule will collide , both of them will go 20 pixels down and left , am i missing something?

Roy.

MotherHoose

well...the 20 and the down and left were just used as examples...I don't know the size of your enemy...or the direction you want to send them...

what will happen is they will veer away from each other...
(probably at an angle unless you timer-delay (after 0.01 seconds) the Y (or X) changeAttribute)

the change X or Y on collision will keep them from looking like one...

MH