Problem with restarting path movement and look direction

[Jonas]

you could also consider "freeing" the enemy by including other directions and let him roam across the screen,
or also retain its changed direction when shooting, so that the enemy could actually "chase you" in the alien spaceship
(if you want, I can put up an example)

Oh this sounds great. I would LOVE to see an example of this. I am still a beginner at Fusion 2.5 (I worked a lot with Unity in the past, but I think for 2D Games Fusion is just more straight forward), so I am glad for any help and examples I can get!

[schrodinger]

Oh, a (still pretty dumb but) free movement is super quick to setup,
even easier than before examples.
Quick example:
SpaceShooter-bouncing_mov-free.mfa

I just added a "movement rectifying action" to make sure alien always faces in up/down/left or right direction
this looks more retro-ish... but you can also inactivate that line and test total alien freedom.

Of course, the direction change that occurs on bounce isn't so realistic,
but that can be worked out just by manually changing enemy direcion at specific events
(time interval, proximity of player, alien being hit, etc.)

[Jonas]

That looks realy nice!
But I do not get why the enemy follows the player now. I can not detect the code that does this. Could you point that out for me?

[schrodinger]

That was already "embedded" in your code you only needed to "free" the alien from its bounding path!

When the "see bullet" hits the player, the alien is set to look at the player,
actually also changing its orientation, and thus next movement direction towards the player

[Jonas]

Ah, I think now I got how this is working
Thank you!