StopMoving Only Works With Random Movement

Bucket Mouse · Oct 5, 2020

When a monster gets hurt, they're supposed to stop moving. I have a monster set to follow the player and it won't stop moving when it gets attacked, even though I clearly have it set up that way. When I change the AI to Random Movement, the monster obeys the "stop moving" command. But not with the other thing.

Here are the two scripts so you can compare them. I don't understand what one is doing that the other isn't.
This is Stop Moving:

Code:

	LDA Object_direction,x
	AND #%00001111
	STA Object_direction,x

This is Move Random 8 Directions:

Code:

	TXA	
	STA tempA
	JSR doGetRandomNumber
	AND #%00000111
	TAY
	LDA DirectionTable,y
	STA tempB
	LDA FacingTable,y
	STA tempC
	StartMoving tempA, tempB, #$00
	ChangeFacingDirection tempA, tempC

And this is Move Towards Player:

Code:

;;; aim towards player.
	TYA
	PHA
	TXA
	PHA
	STA tempx
	
		LDA Object_x_hi,x
		STA tempA
		LDA Object_y_hi,x
		STA tempB
		LDX player1_object
		LDA Object_x_hi,x
		STA tempC
		LDA Object_y_hi,x
		STA tempD
		
		LDX tempx
		
	MoveTowardsPoint tempA, tempC, tempB, tempD
	LDA Object_direction,x
	AND #%00000111
	ORA #%00001000
	STA Object_direction,x
	
	PLA
	TAX
	PLA
	TAY

Do you see anything that could make it not work?

TolerantX · Oct 9, 2020

I had a similar problem in Adventure Module. I switched the labels on them move towards player and stop movement were switched by default.

StopMoving Only Works With Random Movement

Bucket Mouse

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TolerantX

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