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Jeeper wrote:How you make an AI depends on what type of game it is that you are making. I am going to assume that what you are trying to do is get an enemy to move to the player, if this is the case then your code does not work. In fact the code that you posted makes no sense on any level.
In other terms, your code is as flawed as asking "Do we have enough fuel to drive from point A to point B if our car has room for 4 people?".

Your code is asking "Is the player position over 5". And if the player.x is over 5 then you move the enemy on both its X and Y axis. What it should be asking is "is the player position over the enemy position" and move the enemy accordingly. Check the Y position and X position separately and then move accordingly. I will try to give you an example of how to do it for the X position.

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   if player.x > enemy.x then
        enemy.x = enemy.x + enemy.speed * dt
   elseif player.x < enemy.x then
        enemy.x = enemy.x - enemy.speed * dt
   end

You will obviously have more than 1 enemy I assume, in that case you need to check the enemy table with a forloop.

Last I can say that using the code I posted about will make the enemy "jitter" when he reaches his final destination as the enemy will always overshoot the destination and keep going back and forth. So you need to add in so that it asks if the condition will be met even after the enemy has moved. Something like this:

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    if enemy.x > player.x and enemy.x + enemy.speed * dt > player.x then
          enemy.x = enemy.x - enemy.speed
    elseif enemy.x > player.x and enemy.x + enemy.speed * dt < player.x then
          enemy.x = player.x
    end

Let me know if you didn't understand it. I also would recommend that you do not try to "teach" people how to do certain things when the code that you have is simply wrong. I know that you have no bad intentions and I am not trying to bash you for asking "noob questions" or anything, feel free to ask as much as you like. No question is too stupid.

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