This is more of an experiment that people might want to dissect more than slap on their server, especially since it's GS1 and made completely offline with no online testing. It's a baddy I made, but I was messing around and worked it around 8 directions. It chooses it's direction while chasing the player depending on what point in the 8 directions around itself that the player is closest to. The benefit of this over going directly in the players direction is that it can maneuver around walls a bit easier because it's x and y movement are separated. Anyways, maybe it's a technique that could be used more frequently, even though the movement looks unnatural.
PHP Code:
// NPC made by Dusty
function customize() {
showcharacter; // Initializes the NPC as a character
setcharprop #1,sword1.png; // Sword image
setcharprop #2,shield1.png;// Shield image
setcharprop #3,head19.png; // Head image
setcharprop #C0,black; // Skin color
setcharprop #C1,black; // Coat color
setcharprop #C2,black; // Sleeve color
setcharprop #C3,black; // Shoe color
setcharprop #C4,black; // Belt color
this.walkspeed=.15; // Wandering walk speed
this.chasespeed=.3; // Chasing speed
swordpower=1; // I hope it's obvious
shieldpower=1; // See the above
hearts=3; // See the above
this.dir=int(random(0,8)); // Sets a random direction, if you want otherwise, set it 0-7
}
function setgani() {
tokenize walk walk sword hurt dead; // Respective gani's for each mode in order
if (!strequals(#m(-1),#t(this.mode))) setcharani #t(this.mode),; // Sets the gani if the new gani is not the current one
}
if (created) {
customize();
dontblock;
this.directions=8;
this.dirgo={0,-1,-1,-1,-1,0,-1,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,-1};
setarray this.onwall,2;
timeout=0.05;
}
if (timeout) {
// WANDERING MODE
if (this.mode==0) {
x+=this.dirgo[this.dir*2]*this.walkspeed;
y+=this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2]*this.walkspeed;
dir=getdir(this.dirgo[this.dir*2],this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2]);
if (onwall(x+1.5+this.dirgo[this.dir*2],y+2+this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2])) this.dir=(this.dir-1)%8;
this.delta={(playerx+1.5)-(x+1.5),(playery+2)-(y+2),(this.delta[0]^2+this.delta[1]^2)^.5};
if (getdir(this.delta[0],this.delta[1])==dir && this.delta[2]<15) this.mode=1;
}
// SEEK AND DESTROY MODE
if (this.mode==1) {
this.dist=1000;
for (i=0;i<this.directions;i++) {
this.x=x+1.5+this.dirgo[i*2];
this.y=y+2+this.dirgo[1+i*2];
this.delta={(playerx+1.5)-this.x,(playery+2)-this.y,(this.delta[0]^2+this.delta[1]^2)^.5};
if (this.delta[2]<this.dist) {
this.dist=this.delta[2];
this.dir=i;
}
}
this.x=x+1.5+this.dirgo[this.dir*2];
this.y=y+2+this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2];
this.dist=(((playerx+1.5)-this.x)^2+((playery+2)-this.y)^2)^.5;
if (this.dist<=2) this.mode=2;
dir=getdir(this.dirgo[this.dir*2],this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2]);
this.dx=this.dirgo[this.dir*2]*this.chasespeed;
this.dy=this.dirgo[1+this.dir*2]*this.chasespeed;
this.onwall[0]=onwall2(x+1.5+this.dx*4,y+1.25,.05,.95);
this.onwall[1]=onwall2(x+.75,y+2+this.dy*4,.9,.05);
if (this.onwall[0]==0) x+=this.dx;
if (this.onwall[1]==0) y+=this.dy;
}
// ATTACK MODE
if (this.mode==2) {
if (strequals(#m(-1),idle)) this.mode=1;
}
// HURT MODE
if (this.mode==3) {
if (this.timer>0) this.timer-=0.05;
else this.mode=1;
}
setgani();
if (this.mode<4) timeout=0.05;
}
if (wa**** && hearts>0 && this.mode<3) {
hearts-=playerswordpower/2;
if (hearts>0) {
this.timer=1; // Sets the timer for how long he remains immobile when hurt
this.mode=3;
} else this.mode=4;
}