Hey! I'm making a spinoff Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game and I would like to code the partner pokemon to follow the player. Sadly, all the tutorials I can find are of simple shapes that don't need to turn around and face the right direction.
Like, for example, when my partner is following me, I don't want the sprite to face in one direction the entire time, that would be weird.
Is there a way to do this? I haven't gotten far just yet but I figured that I would try to gather all needed code to get started. The game will be a scrolling x and y map.
Thanks!

MitchtheSnazzySpoon wrote:

Hey! I'm making a spinoff Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game and I would like to code the partner pokemon to follow the player. Sadly, all the tutorials I can find are of simple shapes that don't need to turn around and face the right direction.
Like, for example, when my partner is following me, I don't want the sprite to face in one direction the entire time, that would be weird.
Is there a way to do this? I haven't gotten far just yet but I figured that I would try to gather all needed code to get started. The game will be a scrolling x and y map.
Thanks!

Not sure what your getting at. possible use the don't rotate block?

In the sprite that follows

point in direction (direction of whatever it is following)

axisjack wrote:

In the sprite that follows

point in direction (direction of whatever it is following)

Or:

point towards [whatever v]
move (whatever) steps

ResExsention wrote:

axisjack wrote:

In the sprite that follows

point in direction (direction of whatever it is following)

Or:

point towards [whatever v]
move (whatever) steps

Oh yeah that works too. Mine is missing the move blick as well :p

Thanks for answering! But being a noobie, I'm not quite sure how to use the orange variable blocks just yet! Do you mind explaining how to use them?

MitchtheSnazzySpoon wrote:

Thanks for answering! But being a noobie, I'm not quite sure how to use the orange variable blocks just yet! Do you mind explaining how to use them?

You just hijacked your own thread, lol

Do you know what variables are? Let me explain.

You can think of a variable as a box. IRL, you can put stuff in boxes. However, with variables, apparently, only one thing can fit in the box.

Another way to think of variables is the president of the United States of America. There can be only one person as president, but it can be anybody.

Whatever you put in a variable is called a value. The current value of the president of america variable is Donald Trump. One important thing of variables is that they can be changed. The last value in the president variable was Barrack Obama. Then, using

set [president v] to [Donald Trump]

A short timeline of the last three American presidents using variables:

(year) // the year
(president) // the current president. Basically a box with contents that can be changed

when timeline starts::events hat
set [year v] to [2001]
set [president v] to [George Bush]
set [year v] to [2009]
set [president v] to [Barrack Obama]
set [year v] to [2016]
set [president v] to [Donald Trump]

Do you understand how variables work? They are basically like boxes, and you can put one thing in it. This is extremely useful for stuff like scores, because you can basically go like this:

when green flag clicked
set [score v] to [0]

when I receive [enemy killed v]
change [score v] by (1)

Let me know if you need anything else.

Again, you just hijacked your own thread. Please create your own next time :P

P.S. I'm sorry if you're offended by my using of the presidential office as an analogy for a variable.

ResExsention wrote:

You just hijacked your own thread, lol
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Again, you just hijacked your own thread. Please create your own next time :P

I'm fairly sure that if it still relates to the original topic it's A okay, unless it's someone other than the original topic owner.

MitchtheSnazzySpoon wrote:

Thanks for answering! But being a noobie, I'm not quite sure how to use the orange variable blocks just yet! Do you mind explaining how to use them?

For this you can input whatever value you want, like instead of

(whatever)

you could input 1, 2, 3, 4, ect…

Try this:

When green flag clicked
forever
point towards[mouse pointer v]// or anything else you want it to follow
move( 10 ) steps// or however many steps you want.
end