How do I stop my sprites from overapping

it works with the pillars, but not with enemies who eventually bunch up on one another.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3UaHQ ... sp=sharing

Hey J,

It's a lot harder than it might seem at first. It is a bit of work but you want to look into pathfinding (either using the behaviour or looking into how you would code it up yourself). Basically if you sort your map into little squares then it is less of an impact checking for collisions.

There are little things you can do to work around it but if you are going to have a lot of enemies on screen at once it's a worthwhile investment for your time. Trust me.

Here is a solution but it is not perfect.

Add to Sprite10 the instance variable (Overlap = 0)

Then :

If two Sprite10 overlap each other, the furthest to Sprite6 will set his overlap variable to 1.

If the overlap variable is 1, the Sprite10 stop his pathfinding, wait 0.1s then "reset" his overlap variable.

I tried with 5 instances of Sprite10 and it works, you can manage the Z position of Sprite10 in the layer for better results.

thanks again man! didn't have a computer for a few days, just tried this and it does the job.

The custom movement behavior also has a "push out solids" action that some people have found useful for preventing overlap in pathfinding situations like this.

There's also a "push out solids" behavour that rex rainbow made that you can just add to your object, and they won't overlap.