How would one select a random enemy and run to it? (STF 2.5)

[AM_Games]

I'm trying to get my player to select 1 random enemy in a zone, run to it and stop.
I can pick a random enemy but my player just runs towards the middle of the zone...and keeps going.
I'm all ears.

I made a fun little picture.



I'm sorry I posted this same question in the wrong forum yesterday.

[Popcorn]

There can be many solutions to this. Assuming your game is as dynamic as possible, I'd give each enemy a value that tells which zone they are in. When needed, I'd run through all the enemies in the current zone and populate an array, list or string with the enemie's fixed id's. Then I'd select a random fixed id using Random(number of enemies in the array), and store that as the Target enemy. Now I could tell the player object to run to that object and stop when it collides with it. Perhaps I would use an invisible object to help with this.

[AM_Games]

There can be many solutions to this. Assuming your game is as dynamic as possible, I'd give each enemy a value that tells which zone they are in. When needed, I'd run through all the enemies in the current zone and populate an array, list or string with the enemie's fixed id's. Then I'd select a random fixed id using Random(number of enemies in the array), and store that as the Target enemy. Now I could tell the player object to run to that object and stop when it collides with it. Perhaps I would use an invisible object to help with this.

Ok ok...gotcha. What if there are like 30 of the same enemy? Does that matter? I took the Active Object and Duplicated it to make a bunch of the same enemy.

[Popcorn]

No problem. That's what I assumed you were doing. When I said 'run through all the enemies in the current zone', I meant running a for EachLoop on the Enemy object that has Zone equal current zone. If you have more than one type of enemy, you could have them in a qualifier and run the ForEach loop on that. If you don't know about ForEach loops and fastloops, I really recommend you go through some tutorials on it and learn them well.