How do I Make the sprites go away from a object?

Ive been trying with pathfinding, but sometimes it goes to the object I want it to dodge, I tried with spawning an object at the place where the sprite is going to go to check, but it just doesnt work

Hi —, its a top down game, there are little obstacles, sorry but I havent been able to understand your answer. Im trying to post a photo but I dont know why I cant, so I explain:

The player spawns a cone (like a light), and the enemies in the cone should run away from it.

There are many ways to do this. For example:

Every 1 second
Enemy overlapping PlayerConeOfView
Enemy Pathfinding NOT moving
For each Enemy

.. Local variable a
.. Local variable x
.. Local variable y
.. Local variable dist=500

.. set a to angle(player.x, player.y, enemy.x, enemy.y)
.. set x to enemy.x + dist*random(0.5, 1.5)*cos(a)
.. set y to enemy.y + dist*random(0.5, 1.5)*sin(a)

.. Enemy Find Path to (x, y)



Enemy On Path Found: Enemy move along path

Thanks for the help it has been very usefull, Ive applied it and works perfectly and here are the results

https://www.construct.net/en/free-online-games/doog-doog-62961/play