Tips with making enemy detect&attack system

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#1

Hi, i wan’t to make a enemy system where a NPC moves to player, but i need to know how to optimize detecting, what can i use to make checks ect. better and not lag entire game, i came with one solution: making dungeon system to make enemies on separate places, but it’s not what i will do, any tips how to otpimize loop which checks where the player is?

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#2

Do you want the enemy to know where the player is at all times even behind walls?

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#3

yea, i wan’t most efficent way i can make it

#4

Why don’t you just get the player’s position

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#5

bc when i’ll loop it , + if there more than 1 player , they have to detect one, i wan’t the most optimized way with loop or not to check 4 times a second

#6

If you want the enemy to lock onto one then check the distance between the enemy and all the players then choose the shortest distance and make that player your target

#7

yea, kindof, but i don’t know the most efficent way, i used while loop

#8

I think looping is the best way but instead of while loops use renderstep.hartbeat so it checks depending on the users fps

#9

yea? i thought heartbeat is laggy and it runs every something like 1/50 of sec soo it will lag if the enemy will check it on server

#10

Renderstep repeats based on the users frame rate

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#11

but if heartbeat is on server?

#12

You could check on the client and send it to the sever

#13

Oh sorry it’s not heartbeat but it’s runserivce.renderstep

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#14

it can be vulnerable to exploits, and it will be multiplayer game, i need the best solution to detect if player is in range or not

#15

Hmm it’s a tricky on to get a lag free and exploit free game. You might need to go old school with hitboxes just one giant one

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#16

hmmm, do you think hitboxes are less laggy?

#17

Yes since their is a function that only fires when something is in it or moves

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#18

Ok i came with solution:

  1. Player is in hitbox (i don’t need to enemy detect player in range greater than 100)
  2. function blocks until the player is death/leave the hitbox
  3. do something
  4. detect with bounding box if player is still in range every 1 sec
  5. if not, then stop
#19

thank you for helping me, and if you asking, interval that will check if player is not inside box will be loop every 0.9 second with magnitude check

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