Please Help Needed about unlimited enemies in platformer game?

cherrywtz

Please someone help me with this problem .
i want to make a platformer game,
how would i get unlimited random enemies from set of 5 enemies in the endless background..?

please post some answers..........thank you

cherrywtz

Please someone help me with this problem .
i want to make a platformer game,
how would i get unlimited random enemies from set of 5 enemies in the endless background..?

please post some answers

ookami007

Are you thinking of a platformer game (like Super Mario World) or more of an endless runner game?

Either way, you can spawn unlimited random enemies, depending on what your criteria is.

I have several examples of spawning templates on my site monkeyuncle.com. They're all free.

This shows two ways to spawn random objects:

http://www.monkeyuncle.com/shop/random-object-generator-mark-ii/

This shows endless spawning on platformer type setting:

http://www.monkeyuncle.com/shop/2d-enemy-melee-attack-template/

And there are others. There's even enemy spawning in some of my tutorials, plus there's plenty of great examples here on the forums and on YouTube.

Thunder_Child

Sorry I don't have an answer but also wanted to let you know it's slightly frowned upon to create multiple threads....one is just fine.

I'm not even sure how many people use the Pro section much anymore because the pro section leaves non pro members out of the discussion...and I assure you there are loads of non pro members with tons of input...sometimes you need to give a little time for a day to complete across the globe for members to see your question.

jigglybean

this should help you. Youtube is a great place to search for videos

Balvamar

an attribute for each enemy to represent the count for each. Each time you spawn an enemy add 1 to the count. Each time an enemy is destroyed take 1 away from that enemy. Set a behaviour to spawn anytime an enemy is below however many of that enemy you want to have in play. e.g. if enemy 3 count is <= 3 spawn enemy (at whatever xy position you want the enemy.

cherrywtz

@Thunder_Child said:
Sorry I don't have an answer but also wanted to let you know it's slightly frowned upon to create multiple threads....one is just fine.

I'm not even sure how many people use the Pro section much anymore because the pro section leaves non pro members out of the discussion...and I assure you there are loads of non pro members with tons of input...sometimes you need to give a little time for a day to complete across the globe for members to see your question.

yeah i agree..

cherrywtz

@jigglybean said:
this should help you. Youtube is a great place to search for videos

buddy i know this video...but this not...what i asked..

cherrywtz

@ookami007 said:
Are you thinking of a platformer game (like Super Mario World) or more of an endless runner game?

Either way, you can spawn unlimited random enemies, depending on what your criteria is.

I have several examples of spawning templates on my site monkeyuncle.com. They're all free.

This shows two ways to spawn random objects:

http://www.monkeyuncle.com/shop/random-object-generator-mark-ii/

This shows endless spawning on platformer type setting:

http://www.monkeyuncle.com/shop/2d-enemy-melee-attack-template/

And there are others. There's even enemy spawning in some of my tutorials, plus there's plenty of great examples here on the forums and on YouTube.

SSL connection error???
while checking out...any help???

ookami007

@cherrywtz said:
while checking out...any help???

I've changed a setting, so try it again. It shouldn't use SSL since all of the templates are free.

cherrywtz

@ookami007 said:

sorry dude...same error is there anyway i can get it,like gdrive or mediafire???
please help needed...

ookami007

Describe exactly what you want to do.

Approw

@cherrywtz said:
how would i get unlimited random enemies from set of 5 enemies in the endless background..?

What exactly do you mean by sets of 5 enemies in the endless background? If you give a bit more info about how your game works and what you want to achieve, then we could try to help you out:)

cherrywtz

@Approw said:
What exactly do you mean by sets of 5 enemies in the endless background? If you give a bit more info about how your game works and what you want to achieve, then we could try to help you out:)

Hi Dude,
It is platformer game,main actor will be running endless(creating this not a problem),
but the main problem i'm facing is how to generate unlimited number of obstacles..like randomly.
reply ASAP man Thank you

cherrywtz

@ookami007 said:
Describe exactly what you want to do.

This is it dude...please contact ASAP

ookami007

So spawn them and then they move towards the player?

Balvamar

Create 1 actor to represent the 5 enemies.
In that actor create an index attribute and call it "myIndex".
Drag 5 copies of the actor into the scene, then open each one and change its index to 1,2,3 etc.
Drag an image on top of each enemy in the scene.
In the prototype actor set your behaviours.
Create a rule for each index. Eg if self.index = 1. This will allow you to vary each enemy behaviour.
If you want the enemies to move from right to left..change behaviour self.linear.x to -200
Create another actor called "control" in that actor create rules to spawn the enemy actor at the right of the screen.

The endless runner example above by Jamie cross is great. Do the tutorial, then change it to incorporate your own ideas. Hope that helps

ookami007

Ok... I have a tutorial I created for you for simply spawning actors for an endless runner. I didn't include the random 1 of 5 part in the tutorial, but it is in the template file.

The tutorial is still processing on YouTube, but you can go ahead and download the template and start playing with it. It will spawn 1 of 5 random obstacles every 1.5 seconds. The video tutorial explains most of it... just not the random spawning part.

Basically, I'm setting self.random to floor(random(1,5)) which creates a random number from 1 to 5.

Then, I go through 5 rules. The first checks if self.random = 1 and if so, spawns obstacle 1. The second checks to see if self.random = 2 and if so, spawns obstacle 2, and so on.

https://dropbox.com/s/nypino8k7wmods3/Endless%20Runner%20Tutorial%202.zip?dl=0

cherrywtz

@Balvamar said:
Create 1 actor to represent the 5 enemies.
In that actor create an index attribute and call it "myIndex".
Drag 5 copies of the actor into the scene, then open each one and change its index to 1,2,3 etc.
Drag an image on top of each enemy in the scene.
In the prototype actor set your behaviours.
Create a rule for each index. Eg if self.index = 1. This will allow you to vary each enemy behaviour.
If you want the enemies to move from right to left..change behaviour self.linear.x to -200
Create another actor called "control" in that actor create rules to spawn the enemy actor at the right of the screen.

The endless runner example above by Jamie cross is great. Do the tutorial, then change it to incorporate your own ideas. Hope that helps

thank you dude cheers

cherrywtz

@ookami007 said:
Ok... I have a tutorial I created for you for simply spawning actors for an endless runner. I didn't include the random 1 of 5 part in the tutorial, but it is in the template file.

The tutorial is still processing on YouTube, but you can go ahead and download the template and start playing with it. It will spawn 1 of 5 random obstacles every 1.5 seconds. The video tutorial explains most of it... just not the random spawning part.

Basically, I'm setting self.random to floor(random(1,5)) which creates a random number from 1 to 5.

Then, I go through 5 rules. The first checks if self.random = 1 and if so, spawns obstacle 1. The second checks to see if self.random = 2 and if so, spawns obstacle 2, and so on.

https://dropbox.com/s/nypino8k7wmods3/Endless%20Runner%20Tutorial%202.zip?dl=0

thanks for the tutorial dude... cheers

ookami007

I hope it helps you.

cherrywtz

@ookami007 said:
I hope it helps you.

it really does man...you're just awesome