Homing Missiles in MMF2

**Edge** · 24th May 2009, 07:49 PM

Hi,

I am currently developing a shoot'em up game and I would like to include enemies which fire homing missiles at the player. So far I didn't come to a good solution how to implement those. I could set the directions of the missiles at x=0,y=0 of the player's position. But this would look and play pretty rubbish.

The problem is the way homing missiles adjust their directions. For example if the player dodges them, they should actually fly a circle before aiming at the player's direction again. Instead of instantly changing their direction toward the player.

So anyone has good tips or ideas how to handle homing missiles in MMF2?

**Chaos** · 24th May 2009, 08:08 PM

I think the 'advanced direction calculator' extension has a 'rotate towards' function. If not that extension I know there is one that has it, I've seen it.

**Crash86** · 24th May 2009, 10:30 PM

Yeah that is brilliant - "rotate towards" is far better than "look in direction-of". So they can run a ring around the player and come back for another go if they miss.

It's very easy to set-up - just add the advanced direction object into your application and make the event something like "every 00:00.10" rotate object towards another object. (that action is found under the advanced direction object).

PS.: Sorry, if you want the missiles to be better at homing you can make it "always" rotate or only every second perhaps if you want it to be a very meandering homing missile.