Move To issue

adamrnj

I see minor glitches in the Move To...which would not be acceptable for a commercial game.
It generally works ok (actor follows the touch), but sometimes the actor would 'jump' directly to the touch location rather than moving there gradually.
What would you recommend to be a better method to have an enemy follow the actor (that's 100% bulletproof)? I do need to check for collision as the actor is moving.

Thanks,
Adam

tatiang

I've heard Move To can be buggy. Another method is to constrain an angle attribute (e.g. game.enemyDirection) to vectorToAngle(enemyX-playerX,enemyY-playerY) and then have a Move behavior with game.enemyDirection in the direction box.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Yes move to is tricky business sometimes. It definitely takes finesse to use. You could also constrain the velocity of the enemy to the main actor. I'm not at my computer but I'll post the expression.

JScott

Did you try interpolate?

adamrnj

I heard interpolate may be better in terms of movement but won;t work with collisions. Is that true?

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Yes that is true

Socks

@adamrnj

I heard interpolate may be better in terms of movement but won;t work with collisions. Is that true?

Interpolate a value from A to B - and constrain the movement to that interpolating value.

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@Socks said:
adamrnj I heard interpolate may be better in terms of movement but won;t work with collisions. Is that true?

Interpolate a value from A to B - and constrain the movement to that interpolating value.

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