[Behavior] Runaway Sprite

<font color="red">Updated - December 31st 2012 Ver 1.02

I added collision registration to the behavior and made changes according to the new behavior template.</font>

All have is a working demo of the behavior.

Demo

Demo 2 shows the object following a path defined by 4 points.

Demo 2 CAPX

The behavior is called runaway and all it does is randomly move a sprite around the screen, bouncing off solid objects.

You can set max distance it travels before it randomly changes the direction. Delay when direction is changed. The speed of the sprite in pixels.

I'm still testing and if there is interest in the behavior i work on it more to release it to the public.

This demo is made up of only 2 events and 1 of them is to show the FPS.

Runaway Behavior

Knights follow path on a map DEMO

Wow, that does look good! Could it be used as a sort of NPC movement control in a Pokemon game sort of style? Looks like it could. Would have some great uses! Great work! <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Doesn't seem to work here - Chrome's console reports 'temp' is not defined.

Works here in both firefox & chrome. Nice behavior 8)

Ashley

It was my maze plugin that was causing the trouble, its fixed now. sorry about that.

Ah, works now. Cool, looks like a useful plugin for enemy AI!

Nice, that makes easy to some enemies on 8 dir! When are you going yo release this plugin?

I just released the behavior, let me know if you have any problems.

Added the ability to pick how you want the behavior to work.

8-way

4-way

up

down

left

right

Up, Down , Left and Right all move in those directions, but also at 45 degree angles from the direction.

Great behavior! Maybe think about something like that to add: when player is too close (200px) enemy auto runaway/ away from player/ towards player?

delgado

I have a idea on how to do this. It would not be automatic, it will require some external events.

the second link not work

felixsg

I was optimizing the code. The url should be good now.

I added AI to the behavior. You can set a destination point and the object will move randomly towards it. I also made a demo(demo2 in first post) which shows a black box moving to colored squares labeled with numbers. The black square moves from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 in that order. let me know if there is any bugs.

Can you add something like that: when sprite move, wait x seconds before move again?