How do i detect the nearest sprite of a type?

[catto]

want to implement auto-aiming projectiles for my vampire survivors clone.
that’s it
yeah

sogger survivors

[Bilangus]

Check out this topic by Luke!

[Tutorial] Making an Enemy Follow Multiple Sprites

The code gathers all the player-enemy distances, sorts them in an array to find the shortest distance, then for each player sprite, compares it’s distance to the shortest distance in the array to find the closest player. This player sprite is stored in the enemy sprite data and set as a follow target. All of this happens every game update so that the enemy can register a new closest player as fast as possible. [image] The array before being sorted. After the sort, the 52.47… distance will be…

[catto]

i wasn’t very clear before, but my intention was to have it not actively follow the enemy, but rather aim once and stay on that path.

[richard]

@catto check out the jwunderl/arcade-sprite-utils extension! there are a few blocks in there for finding the closest enemy of a type and getting the angle from one sprite to another