[Solved] Enemies to shoot at point of the player

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Hello, working on a side scroll shoot em up. How do I make my enemies shoot at the current location of the player? Thanks.

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Hi, after you create your bullet/laser you can use the “Add a force to move toward an object” action.

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This is what my code looks like now. I just want enemy3 to shoot at the player, enemy2 is fine to just shoot straight ahead. How would I change this expression to also add a force? or do I need another expression?

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Ok, you are using the fire FireBullet extension. Instead of choosing “Fire a bullet” for enemy3 you can select “Fire a bullet toward a position”. Here you can set the Target X and Y position instead of the angle.

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I’m confused. Would you be able to send a picture? Sorry, coding does not come easy to me.

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Have you tried firing bullets after creating bullets?

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I don’t know how to do that?

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You can search for ‘fire a bullet’.

There you have two options:

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And then you just fill out the form (you just have to set the specifics for the X and Y position → e.g. enemy.X(“muzzle”) or player.X(“Center”) )

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Does that go on the conditions side or the actions side? Sorry.

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It is an action and goes to action side

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Actions. The condition might be a specific distance between player and enemy. But that’s up to you.

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Ok. When I search for fire a bullet, I only get one choice. I don’t see the fire a bullet toward a position option.

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You are searching in the condition, search in actions

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Yeah, even in the actions I still only get one choice. I’m using the 8 bit space shooter template. Is there a reason it would be missing?

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That should not happen.

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This is what I see:

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I just checked it and the action is definitely missing in the space-shooter example.

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Ok. Is there a way to add it? or no.

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I just realized that you can update the extension and the two options will be available.

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Ok. Your last code almost worked, although only some of my enemy3 were shooting the others weren’t. How do I update the extension? Thanks for all your help.