Enemy Movement

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-12 17:19:46
User: Scomo [] (age: 1239 days 🔥; posts: 6)}
Having trouble making enemies move around in game, and help would be appreciated, thanks.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-12 19:02:08
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
Scomo
Are you using the [b]~~*~~Game.physics().move()*[/b] LITIengine method?
You can add several arguments to it such as the entity to move, the speed at which it's moving and more.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-13 18:18:43
User: Scomo [] (age: 1239 days 🔥; posts: 6)}
CalvinMT
Didn't have it implemented but not too sure how to as I couldn't find anything relating to it on the forums or in documentation.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-13 18:28:14
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
Scomo
No worries. ;)

• - Implement your entity class with ~~*~~IUpdateable*.
• - ~~*~~Override* the ~~*~~update()* method.
• - Add the line in the overrided method and your done.
  Rough example:
  ~~[code]~~public class Ennemy implements IUpdateable { //rest of code @Override public void update () { Game.physics().move(this); } } [/code]
  Don't forget to look what other arguments ~~*~~move()* can handle! ;)

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-13 22:16:41
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
CalvinMT Actually, with our inheritance-based approach to entities, there is an interface ~~~~IMobileEntity which makes moving entities much more straightforward than fiddling around with individual ~~update()-methods.
So far, our "**~~Enemy**" entities have always simply extended the ~~~~Creature class (and therefore implicitly implemented ~~~~ICombatEntity, ~~~~ICollisionEntity, and ~~~~IMobileEntity. Furthermore, a ~~~~Creature's constructor automatically adds a ~~~~MovementController which will move your entity with respect to the forces affecting it, as well as its velocity.).
This way, the movable entities' ~~~~update()-methods are less cluttered.
You can also write your own ~~~~MovementController (as done in our recent open source games ~~~~here and ~~~~here) and let it control your entity's walking behaviour.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-14 18:32:43
User: Scomo [] (age: 1239 days 🔥; posts: 6)}
CalvinMT How can I link code so I can show whats going on, trying to use the way you worked just gave me errors and trying to skeleton it with gurknukem code still wont let enemies move.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-14 23:45:38
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
> Scomo How can I link code so I can show whats going on
If I got what you're asking right, paste your code between [b][ code][/b] and [b][ /code][/b] (without the spaces).
Or if you don't mind sharing your whole program, you can add a link towards a public GitHub repository.
> Scomo trying to use the way you worked just gave me errors
Show us the error. You can also paste it between [ code] and [ /code].
Did you extend your ennemy class with [b]~~*~~Creature*[/b]? I forgot to add it in the "~~*~~rough example*" I gave above.
nightm4re
I didn't understand those ~~*~~MovementControllers* at first. I'll have to take a bit more time fiddling with them so I can update my code. Thank you!

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Posted: 2019-06-15 08:15:12
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
Scomo we use Markdown for text formatting in this forum, so you can profit from ~~markdown's code formatting:
For in-line code, use ~~ ```code goes here``` , and for code blocks, use
````````java
Code();
Goes();
Here();

For further formatting hints, see the link above. You can generally enclose code blocks in as many backticks ` as you like, but it is not advised to use just one since any non-escaped in-line backtick will close the code block otherwise.