[Game] Krashin' Karts (Our First Game)

[mr_malee]

ok hopefully i can make up for my comments in your last thread with some helpful feedback.

Simplest and crapiest solution. Create a set of AI animations, about 6. Let each one be different on each course, that's 18 different possible AI paths. Then all you have to do is play their animations based on a timer. e.g

var frame += .3
AI.gotoAndStop(Math.floor(frame))

Complecated solution. I'm guessing that this is art based, the solution would be much simpler if it were tile based but here goes.

create invisible boxes on all corner's of your maps, name them corner1, corner2, corner3 etc.

add this code to your AI.

code:

---

var currentCorner = 1;

var speed = 5;

onEnterFrame = function () {

	var cornerClip = "corner"+currentCorner;

	if (this.hitTest(cornerClip)) {

		currentCorner++;

	}

	var ax = cornerClip._x-_x;

	var ay = cornerClip._y-_y;

	var angle = Math.atan2(ay, ax);

	_rotation = angle/(Math.PI/180);

	_x += speed*Math.cos(angle);

	_y += speed*Math.sin(angle);

};

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It should work, but it might look unrealistic, the AI's always going to look at the next corner perfectly, you could modify this by checking if the angle's greater or less than our current rotation. If so move the rotation based on an increment. If you use this method, you'll have to modify these codes:
_x += speed*Math.cos(_rotation*(Math.PI/180))
_y += speed*Math.sin(_rotation*(Math.PI/180))

[Osteel]

Hey thanks alot mr malee - dont worry about the other thread, its over anyways

I appreciate the suggestions, but as I am horrible at anything closely or directly related to math , the second suggestion doesnt appeal to me (though its most likely the best of the two)

On the other hand, the first seems easy enough for two new flash users to accomplish so I believe we're going to attempt that one instead

Thanks alot for the help

[Gloo pot]

nice game... how long that take ya?

[Osteel]

Gloo Pot
We made an older version of the game and thats the one that took us a while since we had to learn and find help to make hit test and such

But this 'new' version of the game required the same code so it was just a matter of making better graphics (which we did)

The original took about 3 weeks since it was also a side project and since we had no clue what we were doing before we got help and this one took just a few days