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  • Just had a thought and wondered if anyone else has done it or thought it through:

    For an RPG style game would it make sense to use pathfinding for the NPCs?

    Think like in a town and cut scenes, as in not action. That way when you want to have them move they will move around the player and other NPCs instead of in the classic RPGs where random townspeople would run into you and walls and such.

    This would mean having to give the player and all NPCs the solid behavior, correct? Will that have any unwanted affects?

  • — I think that is the easy way but idk i will try it, i will come back!

    I was actually asking a clarifying question. You say you don't want them to collide/overlap, which to me those are two separate things. Collide would be bouncing off each other where overlap does not. So I was asking if you wanted neither to happen and them to avoid each other in pathfinding.

    One simple thought would to be make use of the pathfinding cost. So if after one instance choose a path add cost to that path to encourage others to choose a different path.

    If your layout isn't too maze-like (not too many obstacles) I would think about ditching pathfinding behavior and make some events to avoid obstacles. Something as simple as pick nearest (obstacle) instance, if angle(player.x, player.y, obstacle.x, obstacle.y)-player.movement.angleofmovement is between -15 and 15 then alter the course could work.

    These suggestions won't make the AI look as intelligent as some of the more elaborate suggested solutions. But you may want to take that into consideration, the intelligence of your enemy, when designing the AI for it. If low intelligence or making a goofy game you can have the object change course on collision even. If this is for a zombie wouldn't you rather have it running into stuff instead of flawlessly navigating a maze-like layout?

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  • Do you mean they don't collide as in they avoid each other? Or take an alternate route if other zombie is already taking a route?

  • Speaking of server, tt seems like the only foolproof way to make a game like that is to store some info on a server.

  • Nice going there man!

    Having those default values stored as instance variable of the player sprite would make the most sense, as those values are directly tied to how that particular sprite behaves. However, global variables or a dictionary wouldn't be bad either. So I guess in the end it all boils down to what you prefer.

    Thanks!

    Another option I may just take is make a function for each (setSprintSpeed; setWalkSpeed; etc).

    I have a list of issues I need to work out, especially with the sprint (using x button), but thought I would share a link anyway to what I have right now: (sometimes its fun to see the progress)

    http://loubagel.com/archives/louPlatform/080716/

  • I'm sure every time someone shares their events you will need to customize some for your layout. I hear ya on the tutorials. I found a good one on it but can't find it again—there needs to be upvotes or something on tutorials so the more useful ones are easier to find.

  • I can't find the tutorial I used but here is what I did:

    Global Variable ControlPadTouchID (forgot to capture in the snip)

    I crossed out some unrelated events and highlighted the ones pertaining to ControlPadTouchID

    Basically there are three steps:

    • Anytime a touch starts it checks if it is touching the control pad. If so it changes the variable to the touch's ID
    • If the variable is not -1 then that touch's location will be tracked to determine which direction to move
    • Anytime a touch ends there will be a check to see if it was the touch ID stored in the variable. If it isn't then the control pad movement isn't interrupted. If it is then the variable will be set to -1 which stops step 2

    Should be able to make another global variable for the other controlpad/joystick and duplicate the events. The touches should be tracked separately and not interfere with each other.

  • Haven't looked at your capx yet but what I mean is tracking the touches so they don't affect each other. So you would have on touch ends & Touch ID equals X

    I haven't done two joysticks but I have done control pad and buttons, you can see by clicking the ninja picture in the middle of my signature. It took some testing and debugging but it is definitely possible

  • Have you tried using the debugger to monitor objects? Or creating a text box where you can append text as events fire? That can help you understand what is going on.

    Do you have an event that re-enables the platform behavior? Maybe that is firing and you don't realize it

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  • Are you talking about once you reach the edge of one layout it loads the next layout?

  • Not sure this is enough info for anyone to help you. There is probably an event or action that you don't realize is affecting something.

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