[AS3] rpg style game - enemies chasing player

[jm_taylor]

Hey, I'm making a top down rpg style game and I'm looking for a reeeeeally simple way of getting my enemies to follow the player if they're nearby.

I have the enemies pushed into an array from the start.

I'm looking for something dead simple.

Let me know if you want to see specific parts of my code as there's over 1000 lines at the moment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been struggling with this for a few weeks now.

Joe

[abeall]

Making some assumptions as to how you want your enemies to move, the simplest approach would probably be:

1. Every frame, loop through the array, and for each enemy...

2. Determine distance between player and enemy using Point.distance or the distance formula

3. If within desired chase distance, point the enemy towards the player using the angle between two points formula

4. Move the enemy towards the player using basic vector movement

Working in "rotate towards" behavior and enemy movement acceleration would not be too hard either, check google.

[jm_taylor]

Thanks for that, I got this to work perfectly now!