I've been trying to get the enemy to follow the player if the difference between its X pos and my hero's X pos is less than or equal to 350. But for some reason, the enemy stops following when the difference reaches 140 or 141. I've tried using an active object as a following area and the same is the case. The enemy just stops. Which is very very weird. This is getting really frustrating but oh well, I can always blow his head off
Abs( X( "Base" ) - X( "Zombie" ) ) =< 350 <-- this is the equation im using to set him into follow mode. Maybe I should bouncy ball movement but there's less control over objects in it, aint it?
This is giving me a lot of trouble. He just wont follow beyond that point.
See, the distance at the bottm is 62 but he just stays there. Eat lead, mother @#$%^! *Laughs insanely*
Perhaps the problem is in how the "Follow" mode works; you should elaborate on that. Does it simply set his position to xpos = xpos +- 1, or what? Or do you use the built in ball movement somehow, or is the speed of the zombie dependent on the distance between them? If the last case is correct, it could simply be that as the distance gets below 140ish, whatever equation you are using the get the speed of the zombie in pixels/second is giving a result of less then 1, rounding down to 0. Which would make him stand still. If thats the case, simply add a +1 to whatever equation, so it will always round "up"
Thanks for the reply. I was using 'PosX + 1' but somehow it was giving me problems. I've now switched to ball movement. It works but its kinda more complicated. Oh well, whatever works Btw, the screenies look nice dont they? Ok, now that I've got one zombie working, how do you think I should make use of many? Qualifiers? Or some other method such as spread value, which Im not very good at.
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