PACMAN-like sprite movement w pathfinding behavior

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- sturm30
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Hello, got pacman sprite with the following settings:

Then I set pathfinding cell-size to 28 - just like my sprite-instance dimension.

I can't figure out the corner movements: why pacman is moving diagonal? I want him to pass through the points I created on-path-found !

In other words, I want the 4-directions movements with touch destination and pathfinding behavior. Is there a way ?
- kriand
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Hey sturm30

you can combine pathfind with the 8-direction behavior. Here an old example i made:

and a file for C3:

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- sturm30
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Understood.

Tried to copy exactly your 10events but: pacman moves if controlled by keyboard arrows, as soon as i touch my screen (or click), pacman stops and it is more responsive on arrows inputs.
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- kriand
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The example was general in order to understand the principle. Here again exactly for your goal. Do not forget to disable 'Default control' of 8Directions.
- sturm30
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I figured to manage the movement on a grid, 32px sized.

Here is the single-file Construct2 project.

My goal is now to make pacman move with Touch events and PathFinding behavior. If I set pathFind->cell border to -1 value, pacman does not follow the path next to the wall set (as classic pacman level).

If i set pathFind->cell border to -2 value, pacman follow the path next to walls but does not recognize walls as obstacles.

By the way, I notice sometimes pacman just goes out of the grid, but I can't figure out why it does so.

Consider I follow this guideline for grid movement.