Alright guys, I'm working on a game using as2 (ya, I should be using as3, so what?). Let's say you have a group of ai fish or planes or something, all following one controlled by the player. I need some tips on how to get them to group together and follow without overlapping eachother.

You could just have a function that is called by each of those objects, then in the function have the movement controls.

Edit:

Misread.

Just have then

if(this.x  otherobject.x){

      this.x +/-= set speed;

}



Then repeat for y, although that will get collisions so then maybe use the distance formulae for the other objects, so that if they are within x distance, their speed changes. Or if they do touch, they stop.

Quote from Steyene

You could just have a function that is called by each of those objects, then in the function have the movement controls.

Edit:

Misread.

Just have then

if(this.x  otherobject.x){

      this.x +/-= set speed;

}



Then repeat for y, although that will get collisions so then maybe use the distance formulae for the other objects, so that if they are within x distance, their speed changes. Or if they do touch, they stop.

True that would probably work. I don't need them to not touch, just not completely overlap (aka, 20 fish in one spot, so it looks like one fish).