Move towards and return

[Mark975]

Hi there!

I'm fairly new to Unity and Playmaker and I'm trying to figure out something. I have a player and an object and I wanted to have the NPC move towards the player, after it reaches towards a certain distance, and then after the player moves away a certain distance the NPC stops and returns back to the original position in which it rinse and repeats.

Thanks.

[Raknill]

I don't have a detailed answer (hopefully someone else chimes in with one), but it sounds like you're making some basic guard AI. Just wanted to plug this AI series. I ended up going with Behavior Designer for my AI, but this series helped me understand some basics of Playmaker, and would probably help you in this department.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFo7vd-L9ug&list=PLCFBBA6A7A7BB34F8

[4ppleseed]

Save the distance between player and NPC to a float variable using...

Get Distance
https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W187

store this number and use it with..

Float Compare
https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W80

If the distance is greater than - end or start the whole thing again. If it's less than, move the NPC toward the player.

Something like that should work.