Solved How to avoid enemy cluttering?

[paulo.bender]

Greetings, developers!

A recurrent issue in beat'em ups is when multiple enemies with similar silhouettes and combat behaviors decide to stand in the exact same place.
I was thinking about implementing a "clutter prevention" animationscript where each entity checks if there are similars (using a parameter set number for each kind of enemy) nearby, cancelling their attack animation and moving somewhere else.

Any ideas and/or suggestions on alternative methods for this kind of solution?

 

[DCurrent]

The simplest method I know of is to randomize the AImove a bit on spawn. Some guys get chase, others normal, others chase X or Z.

Naturally certain types of enemies always get consistent AI.

It works pretty well and is easy to implement.

DC

 

[paulo.bender]

I'll change their aimove randomly on spawn and on rise to see how this works, it's a interesting idea!

 

[O Ilusionista]

In AUBF, I use a random rise animation (iow, the characters will rise from random frames on their animation) + random walk velocities