Making an Enemy

acousticriffer

How do I make a enemy that starts off camera and will either try and always get to the main actor or move around in a random fashion? I'm also wondering how I can make my collision detection such that if any character were to leave the background, they would be stopped or bounced. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated

quantumsheep

Just be rude and condescending... that usually works

OH!

I see!

Making them move towards the character's easy.

Make two integer variables - playerX and playerY

In your player character constrain the variable 'PlayerX' to the player's position.x and the variable 'Player Y' to the player's position.y.

On your enemy have the rule:

Move to position:

> PlayerX ^PlayerY

Hope that helps get you started!

QS

iDeveloperz

There is a collision behavior.

So in the main actor add the behavior

Collide with actor of type: Wall.

By wall I mean another actor. It isn't a keyword or anything.

acousticriffer

Well it worked in making the enemy go towards my main actor, but now my main actor won't move any ideas? Thanks for that incredibly quick reply btw!

acousticriffer

acousticriffer said:
Well it worked in making the enemy go towards my main actor, but now my main actor won't move any ideas? Thanks for that incredibly quick reply btw!

EDIT: My bad, you were totally right, I flipped your instructions. It works perfectly, you're the best!

acousticriffer

iDeveloperz said:
There is a collision behavior.

So in the main actor add the behavior

Collide with actor of type: Wall.

By wall I mean another actor. It isn't a keyword or anything.

When I do that, the character gets bounced off because my background is behind him. any advice?

iDeveloperz

Hmm, sorry I can't visualize what you are trying to do. Could you upload it to gamesalad so I can have a play?

acousticriffer

i can post unfinished games? its really silly and more of a test how to do everything in game salad kind of thing.

I have my "background" actor. He is stretched to be about 1500x1500 for the whole level.

The way I have it now is that if the character goes off of the background, it restarts the scene, but I'm not liking that very much and would like to make it so that the character can't go off of the background at all. If i just do the collision between the character and the background, since the whole scene is based on the background, they immediately touch and the main character disappears. I need to somehow make a rule that constrains the main actor to the background

iDeveloperz

Can you send me the project and Ill do it for you and tell you how i did it.

ideveloperz@googlemail.com

acousticriffer

sent. thanks!

iDeveloperz

Hope I helped.