circling problem

[pikzilla]

In an application, I want an enemy to circle the player when it gets close enough. to do this, I put a "field" around the player, to detect when the enemy is close enough. when the enemy overlaps the "field", it switches to circular movement, and sets an alterable value to 1. when the alterable value equals one, I set the center point of the circle to the X and Y coordinates of the player (actually, a small active object always being repositioned to the upper left of the player. However, when the enemy overlaps the field, it just constantly repositions itself to the right of the player. what have I done wrong? here's the link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ht3ongjnu4o/test 1.mfa

Thanks!

[Docilemouse]

You need to add a "One action when event loops" to the "enemy is overlapping the detector" event.

The problem is that the "Overlapping" event happens over and over, causing the enemy to repeatedly be set in the circle pattern starting position. Putting the "only one action" condition makes it so it only happens once.

[pikzilla]

Thanks, that works perfectly. on a similar question, how do I get the enemy to move into place rather than simply appear?

[LB]

Have him move toward another object that has the circular muvment, and possibly have the movement set so the enemy doesn't end up walking through the player on his path to the object.

[pikzilla]

That could work, but what I really need is some sort of way for his starting point with the circular movement to simply be his position when the motion is added, and simply having him move toward the starting point wouldn't really accomplish that.

[uprize]

I wouldnt reccomend using an active object to detect distance. use the Advanced Direction object extension or the mmf2 functions (sin/con/tan/whatever) to detect it. It saves a LOT of memory and processing power and should stop your game lagging on slow machines when you have a few objects. Just some advise

[pikzilla]

Thanks for the tip! However, my problem still remains.