onyx bane
i have a trigger object, when you enter it. The camera locks in place. And there's collisions around so you're stuck in the view.
And i want enemies to spawn in from both sides, you have to defeat, when they're all defeated, the camera unlocks and you can leave.
Im just wondering how i should handle it best, there could be multiple waves, and i need to control where exactly where they can spawn from, and what exact enemies it is
cinder loomBOT
i have a trigger object, when you enter it. The camera locks in place. And there...
onyx bane
i need it to be a thing i can reuse in multiple places. Like a thing i can place in a level with instance variables, and or i edit it's creation code
also thinking if there's unique cases, like instead of enemies just walking in from left or right, there's unique cases or animations to have them appear. How i'd even handle that
brisk grove
No idea if this is the best way, but the way I handle it is I place invisible spawner objects that have a variable definition for which object they spawn
As well as a variable for which wave they are
onyx bane
maybe i should break it up into several components somehow
like there's an object that tracks enemies, and triggers when they're all gone
and some that spawn specific enemies
brisk grove
my system at least is split into three objects, the spawners, an object that triggers the battle when the player touches it, and the wave manager which also is the size of the battle room, though for me I have varying sizes of battle rooms so you could merge the trigger object and the manager if it's a set size
onyx bane
i also have to make a way they actually enter, since there's walls on either side so you're locked in
though since i have different collision layers in my game i can probably use that to my advantage!
brisk grove
oh right, I actually have door spawners too that spawn in the blocking doors
onyx bane
maybe i can change enemy code slightly, so i can make any enemy go to a specific location before continuing normal ai
brisk grove
and then I put the trigger far enough into the room that the player won't ever be inside the door when it spawns
onyx bane
so when they spawn i'll ask them to go into room, and after, they're locked in, they fight normally
maybe could be way more modular. Like i have one big object around the "arena" that just checks if there's any enemies in it
and then some wave object, can check if they're all clear before doing the next wave
brisk grove
yeah that's what my wave manager object does
onyx bane
or i guess that part could be one single object
brisk grove
it tells the spawners with the appropriate wave value when to go
onyx bane
and yeah spawn locations, that the wave manager refers to
brisk grove
you could in theory do it fully data based but I like being able to lay it all out in the room instead of needing to type coordinates
onyx bane
yes me too, as much as possible
im thinking of also having some kinda of turret enemies. Idk if stuff like that should actually spawn or they just plop up from the ground, and if so, how i'd be able to actually track it
onyx bane
spawning of enemies, should probably also be kinda sequential. I think the best and easiest way to handle managing that, is probably editing creation code within room editor. Otherwise i'd have to have so many different instance variables for controlling the waves