randomized continuous motion on screen

jorkos

Hey guys, I have a game concept but i'm struggling with a core piece - I want to have an actor that moves continuously around the screen in smooth lines.....I don't want the movement to be predictable. Have any ideas or suggestions for how to tackle this? The actor starts at the center of the screen and then starts moving....the actor cannot go off screen.

Thank you!!

RThurman

@jorkos -- I can't quite visualize what you mean by moving, "continuously around the screen in smooth lines." Do you mean that you want it to gradually curve around - instead of having sharp angles?

jorkos

@rthurman yes i'm looking for smooth lines but I want the actual direction randomized.....no sharp angles

Stop Sign Studios Inc.

you could try a timer every 0.1 sec move to randomX(min,max) randomY(min,max)

tatiang

@Stop Sign Studios Inc. said:
you could try a timer every 0.1 sec move to randomX(min,max) randomY(min,max)

But they want smooth lines. That would be very erratic and jagged looking. @Socks has some great demos in this thread: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/52494/spare-code-dump-it-here/p1. You might have to dig a little but his worms examples are probably close to what you want.

RThurman

Maybe something like this?

Socks

@jorkos said:
Hey guys, I have a game concept but i'm struggling with a core piece - I want to have an actor that moves continuously around the screen in smooth lines.....I don't want the movement to be predictable. Have any ideas or suggestions for how to tackle this? The actor starts at the center of the screen and then starts moving....the actor cannot go off screen.

Here's a version that does go off screen . . . (attached)

Let me see if I can keep him on screen, back in a minute.

Socks

Here's a quick version that will stay on screen, it's a bit belt and braces, but maybe you could refine it a little.

Socks

Here are a few example files of random (or pseudo-random) paths, includes such hits as:

Broken Steering Wheel

Curley Wurley

Curved grid

Dancing Bees

Doughnuts

Etch-a-sketch

Lost Ant

Nodules

Occasional Bump

Perm Machine

Rising

Smooth lumps

Spaghetti

Sudden Turn

Wobbly Signature

Zig-Zag

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/?p920m99b6pz2v9q

Hopscotch

@Socks said:
includes such hits as:

Not to mention @Socks trying to come up with a trig function while moderately distracted by the music video "Wrecking Ball"

Socks

@Hopscotch said:
Not to mention Socks trying to come up with a trig function while moderately distracted by the music video "Wrecking Ball"

There is no need for mockery, as you well know my 'research' into the work of Miley Cyrus is purely sociological.

Lovejoy

The trig involved in the cheek movement of twerking is beyond our understanding, lets leave that to professor @Socks‌

Hopscotch

"Initium id intromissio recuperare" @Socks

Socks

@Hopscotch said:
"Initium id intromissio recuperare"

That's the line my lawyer used at the trial, I didn't understand it myself, but it did the job, they still imposed the 200 metre restriction zone around Cyrus (although I can still shout at that distance), but I was allowed to keep the shrine in my front garden.

Socks

@Lovejoy said:
The trig involved in the cheek movement of twerking is beyond our understanding, lets leave that to professor Socks‌

It's all tables.

myu699

try the interpolate function