I want to make many waves of enemies for a space-shooter type game, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Examples of what individual waves need to control:

1. number of enemies

2. types of enemies

3. speed of enemies

4. How fast they shoot

5. when they shoot

6. and just about every other property of space-shooter enemies you can think of.

I was thinking arrays, but I'm not sure how to make individual waves with only 1 array.

Cheers!

Thank you rokstars322! That was exactly what I wanted.

I figured out a way to do it already (took about 3 hours) but honestly your effect looks way better.

Sorry, let me rephrase. I wanted to create a zelda-type message system, about 3 lines long. Some characters speaking to the player have more to say than others. The solution is to make the text typewrite a section of the text, and once it runs out of space, deletes the first stuff that was written to make a new line. It then shifts the second and third lines up, and prints the next (4th) line. This repeats until the text is complete.

What I need is a way to cut the lines into sections, kind of what the text box does. I will store the individual lines in an array, and typewrite each individual line accordingly.

In order to do this, I have to cut the message into the length of the text box.

Thank you for your help!

I want to make text that spans over three lines, but can be more than three lines of text. So the message:

"This is a test on how the text box is going to display text. If it spans multiple lines, then it will typewrite multiple sections."

would be:

"This is a test on how the text

box is going to display text. If

it spans multiple lines, then it"

"will typewrite multiple sections."

P.S.

Each line can support 32 characters maximum, if that helps

yep works now

If I added tweening, would the ships stay on the same side, or would i need to add that?

Thank you again for your help!

Hello! I want to add a random that keeps my CuiserWingmen from overlapping the Cruiser itself.

I added this:

I am not sure if "|" works in this case as an "or". I just read somewhere that it is what construct uses for "or".

Any help much appreciated.

I want to filter enemies from the player tanks, just to keep enemies patrolling a certain area. However, the enemies will only avoid the same solids as the friendly tanks. Here is the code.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sLK-h433EJeL1gWkpB-Mu9gljwT2vp0p

Any help is much appreciated.

First of all, I figured it out, but not perfectly by any stretch.

With Physics the chances of the sprite getting stuck somewhere are like 99%

Well, only somewhat. I am not making a maze, just a very large playing field with many open areas and ways to get around. So, I don't need it to be perfect, especially if there are enough enemies. And yes, I am still using physics, but I just needed simpler steering to figure this out.

Also, I figured it out. The car "followers" get stuck (it doesn't back up) but other than that you can check out a working project. The only issue keeping it from working was I wasn't picking all the Waypoints. Now it works pretty well.

(Note: this is commented if ever needed for future use)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LJGh0cS96j26RpE_QN0nJMU78JY8bZT5

And then with physics:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=14OYAyPJUAVE2Lfkn0Ny2ggdSkBe-T8wP

Thanks for all the help though!