Advanced AI

So Im trying to make some AI using line of sight and Rex's MoveTo behaviour. Got it working great, my enemy will see, move to the player and stop to attack. I just would like to figure out a few thing, setting the enemy's rotation to the direction its moving, currently, I have it set to if CanSee - every 0.1 seconds - rotate towards player, which works but.. does weird things sometimes, and doesn't look quite right. Ive tried other methods and not found one that works, I can set the angle to the moving angle, for some reason thats not an expression.

The other thing, is the AI part. I want my enemy to after reaching the player, wait a second and move to a different place around the player. I could not find a way to do this either. If i can make the enemy touch the player, move to a random position close to the player, and then back to the player that would work. Let me know if you want to see the capx, I have two addons, rex's MoveTo, and rex's PushOutSolids.

First issue - change your event to this:

if Enemy has LineOfSight to player -> Set Enemy angle to Anglelerp(Enemy.Angle, angle(Enemy.X, Enemy.Y, Player.X,Player.Y), dt*4)

Number "4" here is the speed of rotation.

Second issue - after 1 second you can move your enemy to this position:

MoveTo ->

X=Player.X + choose(-1,1)*random(20,50)

Y=Player.Y + choose(-1,1)*random(20,50)

This will simply move the enemy to a random point around the player within 50px, but not closer than 20px.

Or, if MoveTo behavior has "Move at angle" action, you can do something like this:

Set dist=distance(Enemy.X, Enemy.Y, Player.X,Player.Y)*random(0.2,0.5)

Move (dist) at Angle (angle(Enemy.X, Enemy.Y, Player.X,Player.Y) + choose(-1,1)*random(30,60))

These formulas are just off top of my head, may not work very well.