Separate your display code from your game logic. One thing that I see frequently is people inheriting directly from movie clips for their game objects. This is bad because it encourages overuse of inheritance, and makes display/game logic separation harder.
Usually, I'll have my game object as separate items, with their own x and y properties, then a viewport object for determining where you're looking. To determine what gets displayed, I'll check to see if the game object is within half a screen distance from the viewport, and if it is, and not already displayed, I'll attach a new movieclip, and position it relative to the screen center by the distance from the viewport to the game object. --- James Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > When building a game where collision detection for > enemies is important > (such as a scrolling tile game), how do you create > persistent AI for an > enemy when it's off-screen? > > For example, walking away from the enemy causes it > to be removed from > the game area, but the enemy needs to keep wandering > around the world in > virtual terms, so the player can't easily tell where > the enemy is going > to be when returning to the same area. How do you > maintain that > interaction for the enemy, or is it not done like > that because it's too > processor intensive? > > Any tips or pointers to resources would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > James > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the > archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
