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[Passa]

In my game, enemies follow a player object at a speed slower than the player.

It all works fine, but the enemy objects will overlap/stack indefinitely if you circle around. Here is a visual example, forgive my programmer graphics.


This is the enemies moving towards the player with only a little stacking.


Here, the enemies have stacked many times over.

What I need is a method to make them refuse to overlap, or preferably overlap only a little rather than completely. I tried to code a solution myself but it does not work as expected, making them jump around and avoid eachother by large margins. Here is my code (in the step event of obj_killer):

if (distance_to_object(obj_killer) > 0)
    {
    move_towards_point(obj_player.x,obj_player.y,3);
    }
else
    {
    direction = point_direction(x,y,obj_killer.x,obj_killer.y) + 180
    speed = 3
    }

[RangerX]

If you don't want them to overlap, the need to treat each other as collisions. Do you have collisions somewhere in your game or some other of your games?

[creativebunch]

I usually do it by having a collision event with itself and then move it away from the colliding instance, here are two ways I've done it:

motion_add(point_direction(other.x, other.y, x, y), 2);

or

var i;
i = point_direction(other.x, other.y, x, y);
x += lengthdir_x(2, i);
y += lengthdir_y(2, i);

[Passa]

Thanks, that second bit of code worked perfectly and the logic is very clear. I feel stupid for not thinking of a similar solution.