Self Moving Enemy

zamboni77

Hi there I am trying to get my enemy actors to move by themselves and cant find anything to help me with it anyone got any sort of tutorial to help me please

jamie_c

I think you'll need to be more specific on exactly what kind of movement you are looking for. Doing something like a patrolling enemy vs full enemy AI is very different.

zamboni77

Sorry it is just them patrolling an area not quite ready for full enemy AI yet

Wingmanapps

You have to be more specific.

- Sideview?
- Topview?
- what kind of movement? static or randome?

UtopianGames

Im going to be doing a waypoint with tables tutorial soon from my latest template, sounds like its what you need.



Darren.

Wingmanapps

Im going to be doing a waypoint with tables tutorial soon from my latest template, sounds like its what you need.



Darren.

Hi Darren

That looks pretty cool.
I always wondered if there was someway of doing a dot line path drawing - but where the dots are evenly spaced no matter the speed of your finger.

any thoughts?

UtopianGames

With ours we check to see if the magnitude is a certain distance so they don't spawn to close to the last one but I'm sure its possible to do it so they don't spawn too far away also.

Darren.

zamboni77

Its a side scrolling platform game so id like the to be patrolling an area,

zamboni77

This is really good stuff, thanks for the help this is my first game, hopefully first of many games

jamie_c

For side to side patrolling you'd do something like this:

Start out moving right:

Move Behavior -- right -- at whatever speed you want


Then check for the far right limit of movement I'll pick 400.

Rule if player x position is => 400

Move to the left


Then check for the far left movement limit, I'll pick 100.

Rule if player x positions is =< 100

Move to the right


In this case your enemy would patrol between x location 100 and 400 endlessly.

zamboni77

is that using move or move to behavior

Fajlajp

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/405786/#Comment_405786

This demo i made should help. I know it's not side to side(that it's up and down) but just change the y-values to you x-values.
It's a note in the demo telling you this.
//Fajlajp

jamie_c

Use Move NOT Move to.

zamboni77

OK ive got the enemy moving to the left but i cannot get them to turn around and go back how can i fine out the limits of the area I want them to patrol?

jamie_c

drag your actor to the farthest left and right spots, double click the actor and write down the X location at both of those spots. Return to your behaviors and enter the correct X locations.

zamboni77

Thank you very much you are being so helpful. I can't thank you enough

jamie_c

You're welcome.