Enemy Wave Formations

For a top down shooting game, how do i do different enemy wave formations/styles. Like i would have 1 type formation spawn a bunch of random enemies that go top to bottom, and another that spawns them in military formation, or another that has a few enemies revolving around a central object while moving top to bottom.

anything on this? Thanks!

How id do it is, you could create either a single sprite, drop and arrange it in the formations you would like off-screen and for each of that sprite you could spawn an enemy. For you different waves you could rearrange these images.

Or a single large sprite (for each formation) with multiple image points.

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'd have Full control over individual enemies that way. That would be good for a space invader formation though!

bscarl88 you can also use Activate/Deactivate your waves

karlmahmen like deactivate groups? I can see that I'm more ending the best way to program the different groups and their formation designs. Like an array fit the positioning or something?

Combine relative values and functions (one function for each formation/style).

Make sure, the sprite instances are clearly seperated by setting a instance variable.

By relative I mean to not work with absolute values for the sprite instances, but relatives to the concerned instances plus a general offset that is applied to all of them.

The functions then should pick only those matching the IV.

tulamide   hmmmmmm not quite catching on to that haha thanks for the response though! Sorry about my terrible logic skills :/

you could use an array to store the soldier formation, and use a loop to create them.

for the random one check the Rain demo (it's already included, open New Template)