When i press button enemy moves, when i release the button enemy stops...

Frap1K

Hi guys I'm new to gamesalad trying to make a new game and got stuck on one problem!

I have my "Player Actor" and the Enemy which are getting spawned from the "spawner Actor". After the enemy have spawned they are chasing the "Player Actor" but only when I hold the button move "left" or "right". If i release the button they will instant STOP.

Please help! Thanks.

ycan

create a new attribute "isChasing"
touch pressed -> isChasing True
isChasing True -> Enemy Chases

Frap1K

Thanks for replying but I didn't really understand where i need to put the attribute in? Is it the game attribute if yes what type? or is it in the Actor section (conditions)? Could you please be more descriptive?

bjandthekatz

Create a game boolean
If attribute: isChasing is true
- (Rule to chase)

Frap1K

So i need to create a "game attribute boolean" called:"is Chasing" and then create in the "enemy actor" rule called: "attribute" or "Change Attribute" there are many of them... .

As i mentioned before as the "Spawner Actor" spawns the zombies, the zombies straight away follow me but it follows only then when i press the left button or right but as soon as i release the button they all stop!

Could somebody please describe step by step for me how and what to do thanks for future helps

tatiang

It sounds like you have a rule in your enemy actor that moves it if the mouse button is down. That's my guess, anyway. What is the exact rule condition you're using for that rule?

Frap1K

Okey, I fixed the problem I just had to add a timer to the "distance between" and "Move To" I think that is to update player position? now when i stop zombies running towards me, so yeah every thing is fine now, thanks anyway guys.

IVER Industries

to make it easier, you could create two game integer atributes, one name "player x" and the other "player Y" now in your "player actor" create two "constrain attribute" rules that look like:

contstrain: "game.player x" then for the "to" section navigate to game>Player actor>position>x. then make the exact same rule for y.

what that does is constantly tells the game where your player is. Now in your zombies, in your move to rule, you could move them to "Game.player x" and "game.player y".

if you do that right the zombies will always know where you are and it supposedly reduces the thinking your game will have to do which is far more efficient. Hope this helped