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26th November, 2010 at 01:32:14 -

Okay so I am making homing attack in my engine however I can't find a way to make it work depending on the closest detected enemy. How do I achieve this? "Without Extensions".

I have included the MFA, in-case helpful : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5505419/MFA/SonicBaseEngine_Homing.mfa

Thanks in advance. :3

 
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26th November, 2010 at 01:38:18 -

always
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enemy set alt value A to distance beetween player and enemy

homing missile
pick enemy with lowest alt A

 
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26th November, 2010 at 01:43:04 -

Don't quite understand what you're trying to say there. Care to elaborate? Bare in mind I want to not use any extensions.

 
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26th November, 2010 at 01:53:56 -

always
enemy - set alterable value A to distance beetween enemy and player
without extensions you need an article like this for distance, i suck at math so...: http://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=1898


2nd event
picking an enemy with lowest alt A can be done is several ways, you can for instance do it with a loop
set global A to 999
enemy spread value 0 in value B

3d event
start loop"a"
enemy value B = loopindex"a"
enemy value A < global A
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set global value A to enemy value A

4th event
and then just pick the enemy with
enemy value A = global A
pick at random so it picks only one in case if there are two objects with the same value


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26th November, 2010 at 02:03:04 -

He is saying make an event that sets the enemy's alterable value a to the distance between itself and your character, and then in the event where the player activates the homing attack, run a fastloop a number of times equal to the number of enemies, and on each loop, compare the alterable value a of the object whose other value (a value you'll spread a value in) is equal to the index of the fastloop, and store that value in a counter or some value on the player character only if it is within a certain distance. At the end, send Sonic towards that enemy.

EDIT: He got it while I was writing.

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26th November, 2010 at 02:06:05 -

I think I get it. Not exactly sure....I also suck at maths haha. Thanks for the input so far though guys. Maybe if it was made into the mfa it would probably make a lot more sense to me.

 
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26th November, 2010 at 03:20:01 -

Seriously, just use the extension ("Select Object" extension) - it will make things a lot easier for you.
And do a search while you're at it - this has been discussed so many times before...

 
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