Advance Path Movements

[ChrisFrankie]

I was wondering if any has had any luck in creating a path movement system that would allow one sprite to want to get closer to another sprite, but walk around obstacles like a maze.

[Jeff]

There should be a new pathfinding object coming out shortly.

Its in the final stages of testing and should be pretty sweet when its done.

I think the older pathfinding extension is in the z33z extension pack.

http://www.clickteam.com/webftp/files/mmf2/Exts/MMF2z33zExtPack.exe

[ChrisFrankie]

Any idea how the z33z path finder works?

[Pkeod]

Oh, please let this new pathfinding extension have support for multiple objects!

[ChrisFrankie]

Yes - That would be great - I got the single to work, so I am great there... but it really does just lock to one character.

[Ross]

It's not locked to one character. You just have to find a path for each of your characters. You can then either do something like, store the path for each character externally as a string and refer to that each time you move that character, or you can re-find the path for each character each time he/she moves a step.

[ChrisFrankie]

Strange - the characters only follow one path when I try to use it on more than one character --- got anything to show multiple chars using one path finder?

[Ross]

Yeah, this is Andos' example for how to do such a thing, turned into a mmf2 file by me, i don't think he'll mind

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CXOY9GUS

And, i made a quick similar thing which i think is a simpler way to do it, though it works differently,

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=68OE5ABQ