I need to pick the nearest instance of the same object for a targeting system (in this case, enemy ships), but can't wrap my head around it.

I found this old thread with a solution, but the capx and screenshots are gone.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the code! Would you mind breaking it down a bit more, so I know the best way to set those initial variables.

Specifically, scrollx (should I create a new global variable, or somehow overwrite the system variable?), msyspeed, dt and tStartx.

Also, where should I place the second code? Is that one event, or multiple?

(Bumping)

You have no speed element as I can tell.

Yes, because I don't know how/where to add a speed element, or what a speed element should look like...

I'm developing a pirate ship game, and am having trouble with the NPC ship movement and combat.

I tried using Pathfinding, but I want the NPC ships to turn to the side in order to fire at the player (you know, like a normal sailing ship).

I originally did (excuse the psuedo code): Pathfinding to player -> stop when distance is <= 300 -> turn until player at 90 deg. angle -> fire

However, it looks unnatural and I want the NPC to steer naturally and keep moving 'around' the player at a 90 deg angle. If the player then moves, the NPC adjusts, and so on.

I saw in this thread construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/pathfinding-car-behavior-120396 that the poster had a similar issue, however the .capx solution isn't available anymore and no real explanation was given.

Has anyone else got experience with this?

I'm developing an MMO for mobile, and am looking for an experienced Construct3 developer to support with bug fixes and complicated features.

Quick summary of the game:

• Set in early-1700s in a semi-fictional world
• Fight and trade your way to fame, glory and coin
• Sail for one of the three colonial powers, or for yourself as a pirate
• (Imagine a mix of Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Planetside 2 and Runescape)

(Excuse the graphics, all the assets are placeholders!)

Progress

So far I've built approx 60% of the game myself over the past 2 months, including movement, combat, inventory, NPCs, locations, a basic multiplayer and player-data server syncing.

What I'm looking for

I need an experienced developer to help me with the next 'obstacles', including effects, a proper multiplayer, better NPC AI, a quest framework, performance optimisations and help ironing out some bugs across the existing features.

I'd prefer to work with someone on a rev-share basis (and be in it for the long-haul), but I'm happy to receive paid bids as well!

Any questions, let me know :)

Does your ship and tilemap have a solid behavior? Are you using an 8 direction movement behavior? Are you manually setting x/y coordinates?

Both objects have Solid behaviour, and I'm not manually setting X/Y coordinates.

For movement, I'm actually using the Custom movement behaviour.

It's a sailing game, so to move the player adjusts the sail up/down and accelerates according to wind speed and max. ship speed. They then move in arcs, rather than up/down/left/right.

I did add a Custom movement 'Stop' action when the player collides with the tilemap, but if I start moving again, the ship object just carries on through the tilemap.

I am trying to implement tilemap collisions.

When the ship (see screenshot) collides with one of the tiles (in red), it stops. However as soon as I start moving again, it just carries on through the tile and into the nearby ones, even though they each have collisions set.

The tilemap object has solid behaviour, and all the collision checkboxes are checked for the tilemap and ship object. I've tested all variations, with and without.

I saw other threads where people recommend invisible sprites for collisions, but the islands in the game are big, and adding lots of invisible sprites would kill performance.

Any recommendations?

Part of my game involves the player capturing zones. If they stand in a capture point for X seconds (using collisions and a timer), the zone is theirs and it changes colour.

The simple solution would be to have a big square sprite, but I'd like the boundaries/borders to be more natural/free-flowing.

Ideally, I'd be to be able to mark out the boundary points in Construct, and when the game loads, the zone is drawn out using those points (see below)

The red dot circle is the capture point, and the grey dots are the zone boundary points.

If a player then walks into that zone, a text object will say which team owns it.

So is there a way to join all of those up, and detect when the player is in that zone?