Enemy not stopping

[britzl]

@Cyion

Right now when it collides with the player it carries on moving after it plays the attack animation, do you guys know how i could get it to stop moving when it collides with the player and then get it to start moving when the player moves out of its collision area

Ok, so you have some collision handling code in on_message() right? So what you want to do is to set a flag when you collide with the player, something like:

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
    if message_id == hash("collision_response") then
         -- check if collision was with the player (make sure its collision group is set to "player"!)
         if message.other_group == hash("player") then
               -- set flag
               self.player_collision = true
         end
    end
end

Next you need to use the self.player_collision flag in your update() logic where you move the enemy:

function update(self, dt)
    -- only move player if not colliding with player
    if not self.player_collision then
        -- your movement code here
    end
    -- reset flag (it will be set again next frame if you are still colliding with the player
    self.player_collision = false
end