Need help with basic A.I.

[kramlack]

So I wanted to put some basic A.I. on my MC character (Gaara). I want him to play an animation when the player (Lee) gets within a certain distance from him. I was wondering if there was a simple code for doing this. All help will be greatly appreciated.
~Kramlack~

Note: I just want him to play the blocking animation, I don't want him to follow the player, just stand and block. Thank you.

[xWELSHxDRAGONx]

distance between 2 movie clips

gap = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(mc1._x-mc2._x,2)+Math.p
ow(mc1._y-mc2._y,2))

and now the a.i.

if(gap<200){
gotoAndPlay(watever)
}

[phyconinja]

At 6/13/06 04:21 PM, xWELSHxDRAGONx wrote: distance between 2 movie clips

gap = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(mc1._x-mc2._x,2)+Math.p
ow(mc1._y-mc2._y,2))

and now the a.i.

if(gap<200){
gotoAndPlay(watever)
}

what hapends if he gets on the other side?
=P

[xWELSHxDRAGONx]

nuthing, we have poweres in there so there are no negative vlaues, it always returns a posative value of the distance

[kramlack]

At 6/13/06 04:21 PM, xWELSHxDRAGONx wrote: distance between 2 movie clips

gap = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(mc1._x-mc2._x,2)+Math.p
ow(mc1._y-mc2._y,2))

and now the a.i.

if(gap<200){
gotoAndPlay(watever)
}

That doesn't seem to be working for me, I had to change it up to fit my game and this is the end code I got, but the only thing working is the else statement.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
gap = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(Lee._x-Gaara._x,2)+Math
.pow(Lee._y-Gaara._y,2));
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(gap<200){
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

else gotoAndStop(2);
}

[kramlack]

Anyone else?

[Togukawa]

The physics major is right :-). Do note that the distance is calculated between the movieclip centers.

[xWELSHxDRAGONx]

no no no, now we must ignore this thread, he has been hand feed the code, if he cant use it now he needs to learn more basic things first.

The code works, we will expian any part of it u cant understand, but try and do sumthing on your own ^^

[kramlack]

Well, it still doesn't work, but I'll try and find out why on my own I guess, sorry Welsh Dragon, didn't mean to be so nooby I guess, I just really wanted to finish this game, and for those who have tried/have helped out, I thank you, hopefully I'll get this boss battle completed and go on with the game.

[DJStatika]

does it have to be less than 200 in any direction? or just horizontally or vertically?