What repercussions for this work around?

[Grynde]

I have been struggling with clones.

After reading this threadhttp://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12650.

And using the following:

Code: Select all

if ( distance(Player.x, Player.y, Enemy.x, Enemy.y)<=someDistance) {
    //do Stuff
                                                                  }

I ran into the obvious problem that the x,y position goes of clone.0. However I have a slew of cloned mobs and couldn't find a workable workaround for my skill.

However, I noticed that if I used this instead, I have the enemy doing what I want.

Code: Select all

if ( distance(Player.x, Player.y, Enemy.x, Enemy.y)>=someDistance) {
    //do Stuff
                                                                  }

With it continuously checking against the greater than value of the original enemy the other clones shoot like I want, but I am aware that what I'm doing is not correct.
What are the long term ramifications for doing such?

[AliceXIII]

Are you calling this code on the enemy?

If so just assign the enemies x and y:

Code: Select all

distance(Player.x, Player.y, Enemy.x, Enemy.y); \\ instead of Enemy.x/y just do x and y


Because if your enemy is initiating the search for whether the player is close to them which it should then you would already have each clone independently searching whether it's within a certain distance of the player just instead of specifying Enemy.x which won't return the desired result with clones use a plain x or y.

Hierarchy of clones:

Enemy.1 -> Draw Event -> Script Event -> "check distance"
Enemy.2 -> Draw Event -> Script Event -> "check distance"

Enemy.1 and Enemy.2 know what actors they are when calling what is the same code but on a different clone so using a normal x and y would work because the clones effectively know which clone is calling what code at said time.

I believe this is what your looking for although I'm not a 100% sure.

[Grynde]

Are you calling this code on the enemy?

If so just assign the enemies x and y:

Code: Select all

distance(Player.x, Player.y, Enemy.x, Enemy.y); \\ instead of Enemy.x/y just do x and y


Because if your enemy is initiating the search for whether the player is close to them which it should then you would already have each clone independently searching whether it's within a certain distance of the player just instead of specifying Enemy.x which won't return the desired result with clones use a plain x or y.

Hierarchy of clones:

Enemy.1 -> Draw Event -> Script Event -> "check distance"
Enemy.2 -> Draw Event -> Script Event -> "check distance"

Enemy.1 and Enemy.2 know what actors they are when calling what is the same code but on a different clone so using a normal x and y would work because the clones effectively know which clone is calling what code at said time.

I believe this is what your looking for although I'm not a 100% sure.

I am calling this on the enemy. Thanks Alice XIII, that makes sense. I new I was doing it a goofy way.

[AliceXIII]

Works well now?