How to make enemies spawn and approach player in radius

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hi, i’m making an adventure game and i’m trying to implement enemies. I want them to spawn at a specific area and attack the player when they get too close. I have the code for both of them and they work separately but when i put them together it doesn’t work, Please help.

Link for the game:https://arcade.makecode.com/S06666-01683-09087-05960

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Heres a fix it doesn’t have a radius or the radius is to big but the enemies spawn and move to the player
https://arcade.makecode.com/S16597-31483-75401-89839

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Thanks!

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Someone recently asked a similar question!

You can use this extension which has this built-in block to get distance between sprites (and lots of other handy stuff :star_struck:)

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As for your own code, the reason it’s not working is because you called the radius check function only in the “On start” block! If you put it in a “Forever” block, it will work like this!

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Basic follow system

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The follow code should be on a game update block so the sprites are constantly checking if the player is near.

More complex follow

I like to use the distance block on the enemy sprite follow speed so it’s always close to the player

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and also some collision so the snakes don’t overlap each other
The 2 number parameters control the velocity and the acceleration of the enemy sprites when they overlap with each other (how fast they collide away from each other)

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@Luke you should look up boids! does a similar thing

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i’ve heard of that! I think if i can wrap my head around vectors in blocks i might be able to give it a shot

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How do you change the distance for when the follow event is triggered?

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if distance > variable then set follow speed to 0
variable = distance at which enemy will follow

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Thanks dude, I appreciate it .

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