Smart shooting Bad Guys

[Sgt. Sparky]

... So I re-rendered my walker... For some reason I cant even get the new version to do what I want... The rotating top piece is parented to the legs, and should rotate around and follow the player (tried both 180 and 360 angles for this)... Anyone?!?

if the top piece has 2 animations(left and right)
and each animation is 1 frame, use this code on its draw actor event,

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if(player.x < x)ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "your_animation_for_left", FORWARD);
if(player.x >= x)ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "your_animation_for_right", FORWARD);

[d-soldier]

Man... figured it out, I was saying "animpos" when my brain was thinking "animindex" ... man I was getting frustrated... anyway, for anyone else reading this to accomplish the same goal here. It's:

(In the enemy draw actor script: In this case animindex0 is the animated enemy walking right, and animindex1 is him walking left.)

if(animindex == 0 )dir = 0;
if(animindex == 1 )dir = 1;

(This in the event that causes the enemy to shoot, in this case a timer)

if(dir == 0 && player.x > x) {
CreateActor("Rocket", "Rocket360", "(none)", "(none)", 25, -42, false);;
}
if(dir == 1 && player.x < x) {
CreateActor("Rocket", "Rocket360", "(none)", "(none)", -25, -42, false);;

}
Thanks Sparky

[Sgt. Sparky]

you're welcome.

[Game A Gogo]

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if(animindex == 0 )dir = 0;
if(animindex == 1 )dir = 1;

Can be replaced by

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dir=animindex;

[Sgt. Sparky]

Yes, xD
I orrigonally gave him the code so he could use it with velocity then
it got switched it around to animindex.