Enemy chase character.

[Thalldor]

I'm planning on having where in my forest thing "Guards" that'll walk around and they spot the player they will chase them, How would that be done or is there a script for that?

 

[kerbonklin]

Try reading through this thread, it has many helpful mentions on the subject. This will help you set up proximity detections for your Guards.

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/3452-direction-based-line-of-sight-events/

Although for the actual chasing you can just use Move Towards Player move routes until they collide with the player I guess.

 

[Thalldor]

I have no idea how to put this into my game : |

 

[Andar]

I have no idea how to put this into my game : |

Please specifiy your problem.
Do you have no idea on how to insert scripts at all?


Do you have problems with configuring that script?


Basically if you want to solve your problem without scripts, you can either use autonomous movement: approach player (disadvantage: the monsters will chase the player even from the other site of the map, no range limit to that) or use autonomous movement: custom move route to set up specific paths for the monsters (disadvantage: a lot of work)


Or you can use one of the scripts like the one linked above - those require a basic knowledge on configurations however, and not alle scripts are compatible to each other.

 

[Berylstone]

I'm planning on having where in my forest thing "Guards" that'll walk around and they spot the player they will chase them, How would that be done or is there a script for that?

I don't know about scripts, but you can do this with events.  Set your guard event to random movement under autonomous movement and make it a parallel process event with no trigger so it continuously runs.  In the event commands use Control Variables/Game Data to set this event and player coordinates to variables.

Control Variables:

[Player:X] = Game Data/Player's Map X

[Player:Y] = Game Data/Player's Map Y

[Guard:X] = Game Data/This Event's Map X

[Guard:Y] = Game Data/This Event's Map Y

Then you can create proximity variables based on this data.  I'll give a quick example:

Control Variables:

[Guard:Y+2] = [Guard:Y]

[Guard:Y+2] += 2

Just in case this is confusing - all you did was add 2 to the Y coordinates of your guard and save it to a variable.  That way you can tell when the player is standing two squares down from the guard.  Then set up a condition that flips on a switch when the player is on that tile.

Conditional Branch: [Player:x] = [Guard:X]

Conditional Branch: [Player:Y] = [Guard:Y+2]

Turn ON Chase Switch

Branch End

Branch End

This checked to see if the player was standing two tiles down from the guard and activates the switch if that's the case.  You can broaden the attack radius of your guard as much as you like.  Just create new variables and conditions like I showed you that correspond with new tiles around the Guard. 

Then add a new page to your Guard and set the condition to Chase Switch is On.   Change the autonomous movement option to approach and the guard will chase the player.