Moving an Enemy

peachpellen

I have a platform with a ghost on it - I'd like this ghost to move left and right.

Can someone please tell me how to do it? I'm sure I've done this previously but I can't seem to make it work today >.<'

Thank you!

Peach

design219

See if this does what you need: http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_pacing

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reddotinc

Hmm let me think:

Say you have a platform from x coordinates 100 and 200

Attr - enemyMoveLeft

Rule
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if enemyMoveLeft = 1

then

Move to x = 100
Animation

otherwise

Move to x = 200
Animation
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Rule
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if position.x >= 200

then

change attr enemyMoveLeft = 1
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Rule
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if position.x <= 100

then

change attr enemyMoveLeft = 0
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That might not be the best way but that's how I know should work.

Hope that helps.

// Red Dot Inc

POM

do you want it to move independently?
or with a trigger ?!

if independently -
constrain self.positionX to sin(self.time * speed ) * "pixels to move" + initialX

"speed" - the higher the value the faster it moves .
"pixels to move" - if you put 30 it moves 30 pixels to left and 30 to right , so total of 60 pixels
"initialX" - the center of the movement ( dont use "self.position" here )

peachpellen

Thanks all - will look at those now and work out which one will work best for me.

peachpellen

Got it working; cheers again all