Change animation of enemy based on the way your player go

[huldra1980]

Hi,

I wanted to add an enemy-chase function in my game, and found this code:

angle = direction(x, y, yourhero .x, yourhero .y);
directional_velocity = 10;

And this works perfectly

However, I have tried to find a way to change the enemy's animation depending on which way he is chasing my actor. Say, if he is chasing you to the left, it's playing the "running left" animation, but when your player has for example jumped over the enemy and he start chasing you to the right instead, the "running right" animation should display instead.

I haven't found a solution to this, and was hoping anyone here could help me out?

[skydereign]

Well, you can use the angle to determine, so where that code goes add this. If you don't already know, // is a way of placing comments in the code, meaning that gameEditor will not read that section. So to make this work you must replace the // ChangeAnimation ones to the actual ChangeAnimation call, and you would want to set the direction to NO_CHANGE.

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if(angle<45)
{
    // ChangeAnimation to east running
}
else if(angle<135)
{
    // ChangeAnimation to north running
}
// And so on...

[huldra1980]

Thank you so much!

[Hblade]

In order to prevent change animation overload, make a temp variable. That way it doesnt reset the animation every frame.for example

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int TEMP
int TEMP2