Follower

[Panchos]

Hey,

I need to have a follower imitate the players movements in my platform game but I'm unsure how to do it. The follower would need to jump and land in the same place as the player and keep up with the main player, just staying a touch behind him.

Basically I'm after a similar idea to how Tails follows Sonic in Sonic 2 (Vid) or Diddy Kong in Donkey Kong Country (Vid)

If any of you could throw me some idea's or example files that'd be great.

PS: The main player object uses the Platform Movement Object.

[Adam]

You can use another Platform movement object, give it detectors to jump or climb whenever they dont overlap/overlap a wall, compare x and y positions to the main player etc

I find using the advanced direction object (if you dont mind using more extensions) to compare distances handy, between a main player and a follower.

It's quite a simple method but works quite well with some fine tweaking.

[LB]

I don't think he means AI, I think he means a delayed in-game replay.

All you do is use the array object starting with a 0-based indexed 100 by 4 array. X will be the time, each frame of the app. You Always Store the player X postion at y=0, and Y Position at y=1 in the array. Then you store animation in y=2 and the animation frame in y=3. Then, as you're recording you can play it back but behind a bit. You could also clear the array somehow when the player doesn't move to save from using up waaaay too much memory.

[SP6MEN]

You should use nods, aka, your player drop nods like every 0,15s, and your follower follow the nods.
I use this system for my game and it works good.

[LB]

What is a "nod"? I know that word to mean nod your head as in to say yes.

[netninja]

I think he means "nodes".

[Panchos]

I've tried the node thing earlier and I couldn't get it to jump fluently.