How do I stop sprites overlapping

There are so many ways to achieve same results. And they all work

I Agree with monitz87 and harishankar, post a capx lets get to the bottom of this

Cheers guys, my capx is a bit of an unholy mess at the moment but I'll try to mock up something like what I want to achieve and post it up soon. I did manage to get something sort of working with solids, but as before - and even with the refined collision boxes - they glitched around a lot when they clumped up, and sometimes jumped through walls in the tunnels, which isn't ideal!

Actually I got sort of halfway there with a combination of MoveTo and the Boids flocking behaviours. The mobs chase and keep a good distance from one another without glitching - now I just need to figure out a way to get them to navigate around obstacles.

monitz87 your solution sounds interesting, I'll definitely give that a go too. I must admit half the functions in MoveTo are a bit of a mystery to me, I just use it as a lazy man's shortcut to something I'd usually do with Custom Movement!

Cheers guys, my capx is a bit of an unholy mess at the moment but I'll try to mock up something like what I want to achieve and post it up soon. I did manage to get something sort of working with solids, but as before - and even with the refined collision boxes - they glitched around a lot when they clumped up, and sometimes jumped through walls in the tunnels, which isn't ideal!

Actually I got sort of halfway there with a combination of MoveTo and the Boids flocking behaviours. The mobs chase and keep a good distance from one another without glitching - now I just need to figure out a way to get them to navigate around obstacles.

monitz87 your solution sounds interesting, I'll definitely give that a go too. I must admit half the functions in MoveTo are a bit of a mystery to me, I just use it as a lazy man's shortcut to something I'd usually do with Custom Movement!

Have you had a look at pathfinding? I'm not very good with it.

Great examples shipped with C2 - its my go to resource from pathfinding to multiplayer.

Open C2. Click 'New' and scroll down that page.

Pathfinding's not really an option for my project unfortunately, as so much of the terrain is destructible it requires frequent regeneration of the obstacle map, which causes stutters - unless there is some more efficient way to do it that I don't know about. Otherwise it'd be ideal.

EDIT - This is my project by the way, you can see what I mean about the tunnels and obstacles. If you make it to the boss room, he spawns skeletons, which use the Boids/MoveTo combination I described above. However, the boss room's a big open space with no obstacles. I'll keep chipping away at it though, there must be a solution!

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It's been several months since you asked, but I've had good results by making a particular object part of a family; even if it's the only one object type.

This gives you the ability to test collisions/overlap for different instances of the same sprite object. The how can be achieved through different approaches to the logic, but it essentially begins from:

01 Dude | is overlapping DudeFamily

02 X Pick DudeFamily by Unique ID| Dude.UID <-----inverted from sprite conditions or you can evaluate the instance UID (as in UID <> UID ) via system conditions

From this point you have many options, whether you test to see if one is moving faster, or at a particular angle, or pick a random instance picked from the aforementioned conditions; and then apply an every tick condition that moves or rotates one or both sprites with frame-rate independent action.

The suggestions above regarding an invisible collision-detection sprite work too and you do not have to give it solid behavior--just trigger an event that properly picks the instances and then test some different frame-rate independent actions that correspond to the trigger. This is where our old, wretched friends cos/acos, tan/atan and sin/asin can help provide more accurate behaviors in groups of sprites.

Jason