How to fix overlapping enemies?

dop2000

Hi, I have top down enemies with bullet behavior randomly spawning outside the layout and different enemies have different bullet speed, enemies are spawned at random x,y location every random(0.5-2) seconds on top of layout.

so does anybody knows how we can avoid enemies from overlapping by detecting if the last created enemy is within a certain area then the object being created will be positioned according to that or moved aside horizontally, also how can we adjust the speed of the enemy if there is an enemy in front within a certain distance on the fly or any other way to do it.

LOL, why did you tag me in a new post? :)

Random spawn without overlapping is a very popular question here, try searching this forum. The common solution is to add a While loop, in which you set a random position and repeat the loop while the object is overlapping other objects. Here is one example, see events 9-12:

dropbox.com/s/15oyfosg2ltqtag/spawnoverlap.capx

Also I found this tutorial:

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

thanks this will help :D.

LOL, why did you tag me in a new post? :)

because you know solutions to a lot of stuff ^_^ .

is there any other way to get in touch with you faster?