Legacy GM 8 Directional Movement with Enemy object help

[RATED ARCADE]

I'm looking to have my enemy object moving randomly in 8 directions with it facing & moving in the same direction. I'm using the enemy object as a target so my goal is to hit it, thus why I need it to move randomly.

Step Event:

switch (direction div 90)
{
case 0: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Right; break; //Change these sprite names to the ones in your game!!!
case 45: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up_Right; break;
case 90: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up; break;
case 135: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up_Left; break;
case 180: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Left; break;
case 225: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down_Left; break;
case 270: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down; break;
case 315: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down_Right; break;
}


Alarm: [0]

direction=irandom_range(0,365)
speed=2
alarm[0]=60


I'm guessing that the Case is the degrees it should be moving in but, it isn't facing in the direction it should be moving in. Can someone assist?

 

[MaxLos]

Well for one your using div incorrectly here. Div returns the amount of times a number can divided by another. So if your direction was 270, for example, your switch statement would be checking for a case of 3. Also, why are checking for up to a direction of 365? Did you get the degrees and the amount of days in a year mixed up? huehue
Also.. you should be using choose instead of irandom_range since you want specific directions.

Try this

switch (direction)
{
case 0: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Right; break; //Change these sprite names to the ones in your game!!!
case 45: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up_Right; break;
case 90: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up; break;
case 135: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Up_Left; break;
case 180: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Left; break;
case 225: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down_Left; break;
case 270: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down; break;
case 315: sprite_index=sprite_Thunder_Viking_Running_Down_Right; break;
}

//Alarm[0] Event
direction = choose(0,45,90,135,180,225,270,315);
speed = 2;
alarm[0]=60;

 

[RATED ARCADE]

Thanks that worked!!