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[creators124]

just like the title I need help with an object starting a path from the closest path position.
I have no code for this.
I already googled it, too!

Edited by creators124, 03 June 2012 - 08:27 AM.

[NukeTheCat]

Here is a guess but I don't know whether it will work:

path[1,0] = path_get_x(path1,0);
path[1,1] = path_get_y(path1,0);
//path one
path[2,0] = path_get_x(path2,0);
path[2,1] = path_get_y(path2,0);
//path two
if distance_to_point(path[1,0],path[1,1]) < distance_to_point(path[2,0],path[2,1])
{
path_start(path1,speed,0,1)
}
else
{
if distance_to_point(path[1,0],path[1,1]) > distance_to_point(path[2,0],path[2,1])
{
path_start(path2,speed,0,1)
}
}
/*this checks whether the distance to the x and y coord of path1 
is smaller than the distance of the other*/
//I think it might work but I don't really know how to make it above 2 paths

[creators124]

Here is a guess but I don't know whether it will work:

path[1,0] = path_get_x(path1,0);
path[1,1] = path_get_y(path1,0);
//path one
path[2,0] = path_get_x(path2,0);
path[2,1] = path_get_y(path2,0);
//path two
if distance_to_point(path[1,0],path[1,1]) < distance_to_point(path[2,0],path[2,1])
{
path_start(path1,speed,0,1)
}
else
{
if distance_to_point(path[1,0],path[1,1]) > distance_to_point(path[2,0],path[2,1])
{
path_start(path2,speed,0,1)
}
}
/*this checks whether the distance to the x and y coord of path1 
is smaller than the distance of the other*/
//I think it might work but I don't really know how to make it above 2 paths

THANKS!
but I really don't want to start the path from the start of it!

[NukeTheCat]

Oh, then where do you want to start it at?

[creators124]

Oh, then where do you want to start it at?

at the closest point of the path possible!
so it won't just jump from onside to the other.

[NukeTheCat]

Then maybe this:

path_start(path,0,0,1);
path_position = ??
//haven't come up with an equation yet
//but with path_position you can skip

Edited by Jlm07, 03 June 2012 - 07:15 PM.