How Do You Keep Bullets In a straight Line?

hzapps

I finally was able to get the moving enemy spawn a bullet and fly towards my actor, but it follows the actor instead of following a straight line until it destroys itself? Does anyone have any thoughts? How about how to keep the enemy actor from rotating away from my actor? I am using PlayerX, PlayerY already, but sometimes the enemy actor will continue rotating away from my actor eventhough it is moving towards it?

RP

It hard to tell what all you have going on in your code without seeing it.

Tell us what behaviors or/attributes you have associated with those actors.

If you can upload screens of your settings or a vid of what is occurring, it would help out a big time. Otherwise I would check the cookbook, it should be just as easy as this:

mhmma

i had the same problem with an enemie that should fly in the direction towards the player but not following him ... its a little bit tricky to do that ...

you need in the bullet actor some attributes

bullettrigger - boolean - false
angle1 - real
angle2 - real

now do following
add a rule
bullettrigger false

add a change attribute behavior
insert in first field
self.angle1
insert in second field
atan((game.Playery-self.position.y)/(game.Playerx-self.position.x))+180

add another change attribute behavior
insert in first field
self.angle2
insert in second field
atan((game.Playery-self.position.y)/(game.Playerx-self.position.x))

the first one is if the player is on the left side of the bullet ... the other one if the player is on the right

now a new rule
if self.position.X > game.Player.X /// player is on the left
now insert a move behavior.
in the direction field insert
self.angle1

otherwise

insert a move behavior
in the direction field insert
self.angle2


i hope that works ... and i explained everything so it makes perfect sense for you

famekrafts

What you have right now is fine, for any homing missiles, there should be a probability of not hitting the player. I give player.x( also y) + random(0, 20) in the accelerate behavior, so it can even miss the player if randomly generated.

It rotates because, for some reason the player moves and its x and y coordinates changes, so it rotates relative to that to apply the new changes.