omg thank you I was looking for hours and I didnt even notice them sitting their and then to answer my question I guess you only need to drag them into one layout then

I made a small mistake, it should be self.a in the last line.

And of course put the correct animation names instead of "Left", "Right" etc.

what do you mean self.a in last line?

It should be anglediff(self.a,359)<45?"up") ? The equation wont let you end it like that it demands another ":" and so forth

Are you using Turret behavior just to determine the angle? I'm guessing it won't be good for performance. You can use this expression:

angle(self.x, self.y, player.x, player.y)

This will probably be the most efficient way:

> On every tick: 

Enemy set variable a to angle(self.x, self.y, player.x, player.y)

Enemy set animation to (anglediff(a, 0)<45 ? "Right": anglediff(a, 90)<45 ? "Down": anglediff(a, 180)<45 ? "Left": "Up")

"a" is an instance variable on the enemy sprite.

I am having trouble figuring out to compare the instance variable, like how do I write this out using events.Line 5 not line 3. Would you have a example of a event sheet using this way ?

I have a top down game. I have a base sprite that is the hitbox of my enemy AI then a sprite above that. I do not want the hit box rotating because it will cause problems with player melee animations.

I have used a 3rd sprite with turret behavior to determine angle every tick and depending on the angle/state is changes the animation. Is there a better way to do this? This will be a horde game so If I am having 100 enemies on the layout there will essentially be 300 plus objects in the scene. Will this start to cause a performance drop ?

Is this fine or is there a better way ?

> > You can check the distance to the players.

> > distance(bomb.X,bomb.Y,hero.X,hero.Y)

>

> This doesnt work becasue if the player is running around surely one of the bombs will not be in range and it will just fall through the floor and if the player keeps on runnning a certain direction then the bombs will then just start falling

I created an example of how I would use this in a game.

We can't just throw grenades we need to add conditions that make the attack more real.

--Each enemy should have a radius of attack and if the player does not approach him he does not see him and does not throw a grenade (you can see on the screen).

--Each grenade should have a delay before the explosion, after the time has passed it explodes as in the real world.

--Grenades can't be thrown with absolute precision they must have a spread of accuracy, enemies can't be absolutely accurate like Robin Hood.

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Ah this is what I needed! a timer , i didnt think of that.

I agree with you on the bomb not being in the perfect position just didnt know how I can have it explode near the player and a timer does it.

You can check the distance to the players.

distance(bomb.X,bomb.Y,hero.X,hero.Y)

This doesnt work becasue if the player is running around surely one of the bombs will not be in range and it will just fall through the floor and if the player keeps on runnning a certain direction then the bombs will then just start falling

Hi, great example of trajectory calculation.

https://howtoconstructdemos.com/trajectory-calculation-two-methods/

Thanks this helped a lot. I got the curve going on the bombs now but the issue im having is the best way to make bombs speed stay 0 once they get close to the player to simulate hitting the ground. since this is a top down game there is no ground to make them stop.

Hello guys , I have my Ai and I want him throw a gernade at the player and arrive at the players position. depending on the player position the arc of the gernade thrown should be bigger or smaller.

I can get the gernade to arrive at the players position using the tween behavior but creating a arc is outside my expertise.

Would anyone know how to create something like this and a little picture to give a example.