Enemy AI

[Lucien]

Heya,

I have been following a video tutorial for on enemy AI. Because I cannot post a link essentially the video shows how to make an enemy find the player and then follow them.
I finished the tutorial but the enemy to retreat to an area once the player has ran away and is out of their sight. I am a complete noob when it comes to MMF2 and I cannot figure out a way to do this. If any one could help me out it would be much appreciated

[nivram]

Hi Lucien, and welcome to the forum. Use a small active in the area to be retreated to. Have the enemies always look at that small active if they can't find the player.

Marv

[gkinfinity]

Basically what marv said, although it might be a bit more complicated than that depending on whether or not there are obstacles between your enemies and the area you want them to retreat to

[ChrisBurrows]

Is your game side scrolling or top down?

[Lucien]

Chris- It's like the 2D Zeldas.

Thanks Marv that sounds like the best solution however I am still a bit stuck. I have it so that once the enemy has spotted the player the enemy switches to a different movement and Alterable value A is set to 1.
My next condition is Always Alterable value A of Enemy = 1 look at player. How do I go about changing this so that when the sight isn't on the player he looks at the active object I have created?

The way the sight works is the enemy launches loads of objects and once it collides with the player the enemy looks at the player. Thanks a lot.

[nivram]

Maybe use a time. If that time has exceeded, change Alt value a to 2.

Alt value a=2, then look for home.

Marv

[Lucien]

I have it so after a certain amount of time the enemy will return to the area and that works well but I don't know how to have it so that every time he follows the player he will lose interest when his sight isn't colliding with the player. So the timer idea would work but I don't know how to tell MMF that if the collision isn't being made then do something else. Thanks for your help

[nivram]

negate the collision then set the "home mode"

Marv

[Lucien]

Hmm won't seem to let me negate collisions

[LB]

Make sure you use Overlaps and not Collides.