Enemy follow player

[Ragetto]

go.set_position is used to (instantly) assign a position to a game object.

If you use it at every frame (with the player position as a parameter)… What you see is normal the enemy teleports itself to the player’s position.

If you want your enemy to follow the player, you need to make it move toward this player, at a certain speed etc.

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2 threads talking about that:

Game Object Follow Mouse Cursor at Certain Speed

In this case you need two things: A target/destination position for your game object to move towards Update the target/destination position with the mouse position each time the mouse moves It would look something like this: function init(self) -- get focus msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus") -- speed in pixels/second self.speed = 200 -- the target position to move towards self.target_position = go.get_position() end function update(self, dt) local current_position = go.get_posi…

How to make a Game Object follow another Game object?

There are still many ways to have something follow another thing with the following depend on how you want it to look. Here’s a stand alone example of just following based on max distance allowed. Also includes z sorting. BoxFollow.zip (6.4 KB) [follow] The code for the box to follow the hero object. local hero_go = "/char_hero" local max_distance = 20 local speed = 100 local function update_sorting() local position = go.get_position() position.z = position.y * -0.0001 go.set_position(po…

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Also, maybe you could (re)take a look at the war battles tutorial and try to make the missile aim for a specific object (instead of just moving straight). Would be easier to understand how vectors etc. work.