How do transform this hexagon-based movement for multiple enemies ?

This wonderful topic here construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/enemies-move-unoccupied-tile-156335 gave a good solution to deal with hex based player movement.

Here's how it works :

- player and enemy sprite are associated (with container) each with a location sprite (CharacterPath and EnemyPath)

- These sprite have a Pathfinding behavior directed for the player towards an hexagon on the board, and for the enemy towards the player

- When while moving the location sprite collides with an hexagon, the caracter/enemy sprite is put on this hexagon.

I managed to enhance this so that after player's movement, enemy moves in the player direction.

I now would like to have 3 enemies randomly spawn one after the other onto the board and have them all move towards the player. I was thinking of using a "For each enemy" loop to make them move but have no idea on how to do this.

Any idea ?

Here is the capx :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mnrf9lkdhn77fwm/HexagonMovement.c3p?dl=0

Hey Laurent - I made a quick For each video tutorial for you.

youtu.be/t7onZZx5hKA

You will essentially just want to create the sprites called "your-name" then you can call

For Each "your name" and it will loop through each one allowing you to individually check each "your name" instance on the map.

You should already have your code set up to make the single enemy move - just replace it with what you know about For each and all of them will go.

Feel free to ask specifics if you get stuck.

`Hello winstreak

Thank you very much for taking time to show me about For each!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid my engine would need a more complex use of for each as you can see in the capx provided with my original post.

Here's a capture of the enemy move routine that starts when the player movement is completed :

In my project, since enemies will be spawn randomly runtime, their UID won't be known in advance.

How can I adapt my engine for 3 enemies ?

Took me a while to decipher your code. From what I can see you need a For each for you enemy as well as a for each for your enemy path. This will stop your your enemies from both going to the same position.

dropbox.com/s/cbr6un5ovtbheme/HexagonMovement-2Enemie.c3p

That's wonderful, winstreak !

Thank you very much.

Have you an idea on how to avoid enemy overlaping on each other ?

Just a thought:

You can have a check built in that see if there is more than 1 enemy overlapping.

If yes you have a built in to set one enemy to a position to the left. (You will need to check the position to the left is open before moving)...

You can also have to enemies overlap and show a text above the enemies saying 2 (or more)

Then if the enemy catches you with more than 1 enemy is does 2 X damage.