Enemy tutorial

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#1

I am doing a stickman project game and I Already did the character walk cycle and the enemy walk cycle. The Main player is the stickman and the enemy is the ant. How can I program the ant to be against me and hit me?

The blend file is here:
character + rig walk animation+simple main Menu+ boomrang throw+ant test .blend (863 KB)

If the blend file starts with the MainIntro Scene, just go to the Game scene.

Please help.

#2

Im very very very new but this is something Im gonna be working on next and I think its going to involve some A.I. for your ant. Im thinking its involve a near sensor, ray sensor and an Edit object track to sensor. Say if your ants near sensor goes make the ant track to you and use a ray sensor to face you and do its attack.
I think for attack and damaging, your ant could do his attack animation then send a message containing subject “attack” and value of “damage” property to its target; then on receipt of this, your player has a message sensor for subject attack, uses python module controller “S2A.firstbodytovalue” and a property actuator that takes that value and subtracts from players health.

I hope someone with more knowledge comes in and schools us, because thats an outline in my head but I cant tell you how to make it all work, except the message sending/receiving part, thanks to Prof. Monster I learned to use S2A firstbodytovalue. If Im wrong or right on anything please chime in, Im here to learn, thats why I posted, this is what Im gonna be workin on next.

#3

First you need to answer this to questions by yourself. Because these questions are very very general and vague anything would be an answer e.g. “throw a stone at the ant to make it angry - and the ant will be against you”. But I assume such answers do not help you, isn’t it?

Go into the idea inside your head and write down what the enemy should do under what conditions e.g.

  • if a player is near I go to the player
  • if I collide with the player bite

So you see that is much more detailed… but still leaves some questions:

  • How does a the object identify a ‘player’?
  • What means ‘near’?

If you know this details, we can help much easier (maybe you see the solution already). We can also provide solutions for this questions.