Looking for Custom Alternative to 8 Direction Movement

So, eight direction movement and the bounce movement don't seem to be cutting it for me anymore. Too many collision issues and going through walls and the like, as well as the glitch where if you have an Event that changes a movement on something, and that movement has "moving at start" unchecked, it'll move regardless, but also enter into a sort of limbo state where it no longer recognizes collisions or "stop" events.

So I tried making a player and AI controlled Vector movement, and couldn't get that working either. Complicated, and lacked an easy acceleration and deceleration function. So, does anyone have any examples of an eight directional custom movement around? Preferably one that does not use "detector" objects with it.

The project I've been working on is beginning to become much too big to upload here. Namely, the two built in movements don't cooperate well when it comes to collisions that aren't static backdrop obstacles. If I were to define an Active Object that's meant to serve as a platform, things get wonky. Sometimes it decides to work for the player, and sometimes not. I've yet to figure out how to get it to work consistently for level layouts, but as for the bouncing ball movement, or AI movement, it's ALWAYS intermittent. Very often, they "collide" themselves so much that they start pushing themselves through all obstacles and end up out of bounds.

I do plan on having a lot of objects at any given time using movements, so that which drains system resources quickly wouldn't be so great.

Also, I like the simplicity of the one you posted, DaveC. Though the only immediate issue I have with it is that when moving diagonally, you have the combined vertical and horizontal speeds at their maximum, so you're traveling at that diagonal speed faster than the others.

Trying to see how to apply that code to the .mfa file you linked me earlier.

Nope. Can't get it to work.

So I did this:

X Pos = X Pos + (speed*Cos(angle))
Y Pos = Y Pos - (speed*Sin(angle))

Only, now the diagonals aren't working right. As in the speeds are different, or rather slower, somehow than traveling strictly horizontally or vertically.

That actually worked out quite well!

Now, however, the Move Safely thing gets stuck in walls, likely from attempting to read from X and Y values that have decimal points associated with them.

Got it all to work perfectly now, though I'm scared to think of how multiple objects will work.

It's just that I'm going to be putting this to use in a game with some complicated movement and obstacle management. Move Safely crashes on me when I mess around with it, trying to understand how to put it to use, so it's just the daunting task I have ahead of me that I'm not so keenly looking forward to.

I wonder if there's an example around that uses the object extensively so I can see how it works when it comes to needing to check for collisions on multiple things (walls, projectiles, other enemies, jump plates, etc).

I think it does that as well. I had tried something similar to it within code itself to try to keep collisions working right, where X and Y position were preserved while not overlapping an obstacle, and then an event further down where if the object was overlapping an obstacle, it'd set the X and Y positions back. Of course it didn't go as planned, which is why I'm looking into this object now. Problem is, I'd like to use it with objects that'd have a number of different movement types and collision circumstances, and I'm not sure where to place all of the events like Prepare, Commence, and Move out, because defined movement would be all over the place.

Started implementing Move Safely little by little. It likes to crash a lot... And I'm not sure why.

Now it's just getting aggravating. I have two objects now with the exact same collision code and very similar movement schemes. One works fine when hitting backdrops, and one does not. Yet both work perfectly fine when hitting obstacles that are Active Objects.

Do I need a separate Move Safely 2 Object per player/ enemy?