I've been making a scrolling zombie survival game, its been going pretty good, But I've come to the time when I need the AI, spawning and Collisions for the zombies. I've sort of got spawning coded, all it does is spawn clones around the screen, but I don't want them to spawn into a wall, and I don't want them walking through walls, and it would be good if they didn't clump up at walls, but walked around the nearest path to the character. Was just wondering if anyone had any ideas or advice - Thx —-Project Link - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/162759945/

You can try to make a hitbox for each zombie, much like one for a player.
You can use cloning to make the hitbox work.

That would work, but they follow the player around and everything is scrolling around them, so if they get caught in a wall and the player is moving away, do they stay there when you come back? or do they delete themselves? I also need a way for them to spawn around the map, without having them be in the players view, so they can be coming towards the player from a different area of the map.

The way they are now they will be dragged with the player at the edge of the screen. Really all things do that but these zombies are not on the scroll axis as i call it. They move with move and mirror the players movements to still appear to be moving along with you as scrolling happens. As such they will get dragged through the wall on the edge of the screen and continue on afterwards whenever they get the chance and act like nothing happened.

You can set them up on the scroll axis and move them by changing the variable but would not be able to use point and move commands. It would have to be more like comparing scrollx to zombiex with greater and less than and moving to make them come together. With many enemies they tend to stack on top of each other if chasing you for too long.

Then you could deal with walls and be able to have them keep a ‘position’ off screen. Not sure how that would all work with walls off screen and zombies off screen. Likely the walls and the sprites would pile up at the edge of the screen and they'd think they're in a wall all that time. Might be better if they had a zone and played like a zone defense or something. Rather than coming at you always.

A cheap band-aid to avoid all those complications or changing the movement of your zombies that much is simply if it hits a wall back up -3 turn 90 and move 3 steps (actaully 1 step seems to work better for this last one in case its the wrong way he won't zoom through the wall). If he happens to turn the right way he'll get around eventually bumping into the wall as he goes moving 1 step at a time or if not end up getting dragged through the wall as I said above or even turn and walk right through it if he goes the wrong way.

It's certainly not impossible to set up a full on pathfinding script that works with scrolling but would likely need to make better movement for your zombies first. The game in my signature star fighter uses both kinds of movement. The regular fighters move similar to your zombies and the boss moves how things should move on a scrolling map. Luckily in space there are no walls though.

And here is my attempt at the cheap band-aid fix in the zombies movement for walls. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/186023688/

If you have multiple characters getting into synch when moving around, give them different speeds that are prime numbers - less chance of them getting into lockstep that way.

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i want my character to be only harmed from one side how would i do that?

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i want my character to be only harmed from one side how would i do that?

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Hi guys, im making a zombie game but i cant ge the zombies to stay on the other side of the wall ive made?? hope u guys can help

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Hi guys, im making a zombie game but i cant ge the zombies to stay on the other side of the wall ive made?? hope u guys can help

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