how to move everything

genecyst · Post by **genecyst** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:38 am

hi guys, what is your favorite method for planning enemy ships movement?

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:08 am

I use waypoints but most people prefer spline paths or hard-coded movement.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:16 pm

I use the path function in Gamemaker. Usually simple, periodic movements. Making gameplay tight with more elaborate movements is something I'm not ready to do yet. It's just to easy to end up with beatiful movements and loose gameplay.

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:15 am

Blammo

genecyst · Post by **genecyst** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:26 pm

wowoowowowowo!!!
thanks a lot for that link!!!

monkeyman · Post by **monkeyman** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:02 pm

Usually coded into a timeline.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:05 am

thanks for the spline link

i have a Japanese book on bullet/ship pattern algos but getting through that -plus- the japanese description is somewhat painful

mirkvid · Post by **mirkvid** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:06 am

Sweet spline info! also the directX library has functions that return a vector containing the points along a spline: D3DXVec3CatmullRom().

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:14 am

What about movement in Flash/Actionscript? Anyone got any experience?

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:26 am

dcharlie wrote:thanks for the spline link

i have a Japanese book on bullet/ship pattern algos but getting through that -plus- the japanese description is somewhat painful

im sure i'd like to take a look at that book... do you ahve an electronic version of it or some4thing?

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:35 pm

This was posted on the indiegamer forums earlier today:

http://sol.gfxile.net/interpolation/