How do I move enemies like Vampire Survivors?

If i'm remember well, ennemis move as Bullet in Vampire Survivors, so it's pretty easy, just use Bullet Behavior, and set the angle to angle of your Hero.

If i'm remember well, ennemis move as Bullet in Vampire Survivors, so it's pretty easy, just use Bullet Behavior, and set the angle to angle of your Hero.

Better, but they still overlap.

Have you tried to make them follow a point different to the player position?

You could set up a hierarchy of invisible placeholder instances around your player character.

Then at runtime, instead of telling each enemy to go directly to the player position, you can pick one of the placeholder instances at random and tell the enemy to go to that position instead.

Doing that they will all go into the players general direction, but they won't cluster in a single point.

Im doing something similar right now.

Im using 9 positions(Image points) around the player as move to points, but they are calculating the closeast one to go to, to avoid an enemy trying to go through the player to reach the destiny.

But as far as I move the player they all will get the same point to move to.

I see, maybe try picking a any random image point if the enemy is far enough, doesn't matter what the end position will be. When they get at a certain minimum distance make them move in directly into the player position.

In the case the player walks away from the minimum distance, then pick another image point randomly so the enemy will take a slightly different direction.

You could also try changing the image point they are following midway, so they won't go in a straight line.

DiegoM thanks, will try it.

Best working and best performing solution I had found for Vampire Survivor like enemy behavior is using phyics.

Threw together a little example for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17eszXFnrcgYShboEL64XVV1iuEX70yWj/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if this works for you! :)

Wow thats awesome, I have tried using physics but could not manage the hits between enemies. I'm gonna try to implement this way you sent. Thanks!

Getting better

Simple push will do: construct.net/out

Best working and best performing solution I had found for Vampire Survivor like enemy behavior is using phyics.

Threw together a little example for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17eszXFnrcgYShboEL64XVV1iuEX70yWj/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if this works for you! :)

Hey, the enemies kind of delay when moving. When spawning 100 instances, sure, looks great, but when they come in 10-20 at a time you can tell their movements are delayed by about 1-2 seconds.

What's the fix for this?

Simple push will do: construct.net/out

Hey, alextro I tried to use your solution, but, when I put 2 different enemies and they colid they took stuck to each other, any solution to this?

Tanks

Do they in same family class? Try enable 'for each' in event 6. For more advance technique probably learning FSM should gives good start. I can think about tagging system borrowed from another case: construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/bunch-sprites-change-color-165470

Best working and best performing solution I had found for Vampire Survivor like enemy behavior is using phyics.

Threw together a little example for you:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17eszXFnrcgYShboEL64XVV1iuEX70yWj/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if this works for you! :)

This is such a great idea. Saw it, loved it and implemented it in my project. BUT my enemies are just passing by the player and are leaving the map. I am pretty sure, that there some hidden physics configuration, i miss, because in your example it works great.

Does anybody have an idea, which parameter in can ajust to make my enemies "walk" to the center of gravity (player.x, player.y) and stay there?

Thanks in advance!!! :-)