How do I Make sprites of the same instance stop overlapping?

Ok, so i made a spawn building which is spawning 1 kind of sprite every 1 second. whenever theres 10 sprites in the spawn area they are all supposed to move onto another area. I marked this area x2400,y1200 (middle of the screen). But they all end up overlapping each other even though they have the solid behavoir.

How can i make them not overlap each other??

Most straight forward way is using families. Put the sprites in a family. On Sprite collide with family, push out Sprite with custom movement.

thanks for the quick fix. Its looks pretty glitchy when they collide though.

Its as if they are pushing each other around

Or you can do it the more complicated way...

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/5359/non-overlapping-ai-for-top-down-games

Hmm yeah that was off the top of my head. I know there are ways to implement it where they don't overlap at all, but I forget the details. Try a search.

oosyrag: I did a search, could only find years old content, with broken links. You way seems to have a HUGE impact on the performance.

chrisinfinger: Where do i find the .capx file? do i need to buy license?

Here is my favorite example, although I can't profess to understand how it works.

Regarding broken links - a recent change to Dropbox changed the way public links were handled. If you pm the poster they can usually update the share to get it working again.

Non overlapping block generator:

Auto push using family:

i'll take a look at those osyrag. If i get to understand them, i'll try to make a simpler explanation

https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tu ... amedev-169

i took a look at rojohounds example, seems pretty straightforward. will test and see if i can explain it when i get home.

I recommend:

Boids

-or-

LJ Potential

.. for swarming behaviour. Although you need to understand a bit of C2 to implement practically.

You can also use BOIDS behaviour and use that to "flock" your entities. They will perhaps overlap, but quickly adjust themselves to be more in a "loose group" depending on the settings you put into the behaviour.

You can get the original BOIDS behaviour HERE

You can get Rex Rainbow's version of BOIDS behaviour HERE

Each behaviour listed above works slightly differently. Rex has a bit more control but I find slightly harder to use (which usually comes with having more control).

~Sol

[quote:2m58egmw]chrisinfinger: Where do i find the .capx file? do i need to buy license?

The capx is in the left column beside the tutorial.. its under heading "Tutorial Downloads". Not sure if it was made using objects requiring pro license though.