Get enemy closer on stop attack

I have got the enemy to stop and start attacking at a certain distance from the player using overlap at offset enemy.width, and i have an image point on the enemies weapon at the tip on one animation frame for contact to subtract health from the player but i need the enemy to move closer to the player in order for that image point to make contact and i can't seem to figure out how to get the enemy closer.

I have tried setting the enemy.width - 20 but doesn't seem to bring the enemy closer.

I do have the collision box not including the sword so that for the move forward it is only when the skeleton itself is overlapping the player and this is just to keep the skeleton from directly overlapping behind the player.

here is the c3p file, it is zipped to contain the lunarray litetween addon in case you don't have it.

http://bit.ly/2Bfotvz

here is a screenshot

Hey rbailey83,

its me again. As i said in the other thread, you need to multiply enemy.width e.g. enemy.width*0.3 to reduce the distance.

If the enemys width is 50 and it is mirrored, the width will be -50. + (-20) it turn out to be -70 and not the wanted -30.

I have made some other changes.

Look if you like it and play with the values a little bit.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ap_-qxoGKbDcgRbvPycA-qNowq-H

rbailey83

I have posted 3 different ways to do similar thing in this Post, I hope it helps

https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=191444&p=1121903#p1121903

Hey rbailey83,

its me again. As i said in the other thread, you need to multiply enemy.width e.g. enemy.width*0.3 to reduce the distance.

If the enemys width is 50 and it is mirrored, the width will be -50. + (-20) it turn out to be -70 and not the wanted -30.

I have made some other changes.

Look if you like it and play with the values a little bit.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ap_-qxoGKbDcgRbvPycA-qNowq-H

oh ok, I was thinking that it was if the enemy was still too close to the player then multiply to push the enemy back a bit, sorry must have read that wrong or was thinking about it in the wrong way. That works out great, thank you for that

rbailey83

I have posted 3 different ways to do similar thing in this Post, I hope it helps

https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=191444&p=1121903#p1121903

thanks for the link, those are also good ways of doing it, i will keep that file saved for future reference.