How to Create an ENEMY In Godot 4 

Excellent! The enemy wasn't colliding with the tiles, i added "move_and_collide" in: func _physics_process(delta): if player_chase: ... move_and_collide(Vector2(0,0)) ... And now it works :).

Nice tutorial. The movement is handled better this way: velocity = (player.get_global_position() - position).normalized() * movementSpeed * delta move_and_collide(velocity) with the velocity vector you can make the enemy slow down gradually after you leave the "aggro range". For that use lerp. velocity = lerp(velocity, Vector2.ZERO, 0.07) so in the end you'd have something like this: if player_chase: velocity = (player.get_global_position() - position).normalized() * movementSpeed * delta else: velocity = lerp(velocity, Vector2.ZERO, 0.07) move_and_collide(velocity) 0.07 being the rate of slowing down. Adjust to your needs. 1.0 is stopping instantly.

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The flip_h logic can be shortened: $AnimatedSprite2D.flip_h = (position > player.position)

I am a child self learner of coding and this is been a great and easy kick start for me

Possibly the most helpful tutorial on Godot I've come across. The way you work through it out loud as you're coding and setting things up made things click for me in a way that other tutorials have failed to do.

This one was also difficult for me, but eventually got it all sorted out, collisions are working, y-sorting is working for both player and enemy, and enemy follow code is working perfectly. Phew! Heading to the combat system, which I know will be funsies.

These tutorials of yours have been working perfectly for me so far! I can't wait to follow along with the combat system next. Thank you so much for the amazing videos!

To properly chase a player at a constant speed, I can suggest this option: if player_chase: position += (player.position - position).normalized() * speed * delta move_and_collide(Vector2(0,0)) Also, adding - move_and_collide(Vector2(0,0)) solves the problem of the enemy not colliding with objects.

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since the enemy is a CharacterBody2d, instead of modifying the position directly, you can use velocity and the move_and_slide() function. This way, you wouldn't need to divide the position by the speed. (I think raising the speed value to make the enemy slower is a bit counterintuitive.) Also, I might be wrong, but I think if you don't multiply speed by delta, the enemy will move faster or slower based on framerate? Thank you for putting in the time to make this series. As someone new to Godot 4 I am really enjoying it!

Thanks for the guides mate, I think you do a great job! This game coming together looks great. If I could just give some positive feedback - You do a fairly good job at explaining some things, but I think it would be good to go into a little more detail within the code and why we are doing some things - for example moving our player and enemy to -15 Y axis. You say this is for the Ysorting, but we also turned on Y sorting within all the menus, so would be good to have that extra detail on what that page movement does. There's a few areas like this - One other bit would be the code iteslf. It seems like a lot of the time we aren't using the best practices or not using the best code. You can see even when you are testing the gameplay the the slime gets faster when you move further, and slows down when it gets close. In our gameplay controller we also use heaps of lines of code for a really simple controller. You seem to know what you're talking about though so it would be good to talk about your reasoning for these decisions. I'll also note that when you play the game with this code used, there are bugs like the slime being attached to the player if you collide correctly and if you run into the slime top down you will also get stuck and autowalk pushing the slime downwards and off the map. I GREATLY appreciate the fantastic guides, my only fears are things being missed and potentially not best practices used sometimes. Thanks again and look forward to the rest of the series.

Thanks man.. excited for the next one!

This is the funniest tutorial I've seen, but also insanely helpful.

Hi! thank you so much for this tutorial, it saved my nooby butt and fortunately you explain everything instead of just telling us to copy and paste, so congrats man! The only thing that didn´t help me was the fact the enemy´s velocity changes depending on the difference between the position of the player and the enemy position, and for the game I´m trying to make it would feel odd. In case anyone needs the enemy to move with a constant velocity I found a way to do it. If anyone reads this and has a better solution or sees any error, please let me know! I started programming 2 weeks ago so I´m sure there are better ways to do this. I just mixed how I learned to move my player with the things I learned in this fantastic tutorial. The code would go like this: func _physics_process(_delta): if player_chase == true: var direction = Vector2(player.position - position) #gets the direction the enemy needs to move to reach the player var normal_direction = direction / direction.length() #normalizes the vector (makes the magnitude or length of the vector always the same while mantaining its direction) velocity = normal_direction * speed #multiplies the normalized vector or direction and the speed chosen move_and_slide() #method used to move a character depending on the velocity

Thats a really nice song you have playing in the background.

I didnt expected such a good tutorial, thx dude, keep it up!

Love your Videos! They are super helpful, and you are incredibly chill. If anything, all I would recommend is perhaps a prepared script if you do not already do that. Thank you and keep up the good work.

This is rad stuff man. Thank you for doing these.

Thank you so much, 😃I love how it's simple and logic to put the animated enemy sprite chasing the player and it's fun also. Though I'm still a little confused about offset, I will study about it in Godot docs.

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thanks i saw 100 tutorial video and only you have the solution to my problem thanks thanks thanks!!!

Thanks for the tutorial DevWorm! It's really easy to digest and follow along with. One thing I noticed with this movement script is that the enemy doesn't have a constant speed at all. It becomes a lot slower when it gets close to the player. In this case, such a behavior is helpful, but it may not work for other enemy types.

Yes! You make the best tutorials. They are easy to follow and understandable. Can you make a Main Menu/ Pause Menu tutorial next?

Very simple and clever way to make an enemy

Hello, I was using this video to create an npc companion for my player, and it's been incredibly helpful! I did have two questions though if you're able to help. The first: My npc is always in chase mode, which means her running animation is always playing, even if the player is standing still. Is there a good way to detect if the player is standing still, to trigger the idle animation, as well as make sure the npc is facing the player? The second: My player is pretty tall, but her hitbox is in her feet, so the npc ends up with the player walking on her head (at least, I think the hitbox is what's causing the problem). Is there a good way to move the npc up the y axis so she's walking next to the player instead?

Great tutorial! :)

Thank you for this tutorial! As a beginner to game dev itself, this tutorial series is the only one that has felt truly easy to understand, from you explaining the logic to the syntax, everything is very digestible. Definitely going to recommend this to any friends that want to try Godot. Keep up the amazing work! Also thanks to anyone posting comments, the extra solutions and explanations are really helpful.

Nice job

Underrated tutorial

This tutorial is really good 👍, it's nice for once to see a tuto's fonctionng easily

thankyou sir!

Hi, it works great, but there is one problem, if you add the aggression function when hitting from far away, then the enemy quickly teleports to the player, when the speed changes, nothing much changes...

When he added the movement something just died in me. Not only did he divide by speed instead of multiplying, but he also made the enemy accelerate the further it gets from player

Very simple and effective way to do this! however I've been facing one issue for a while this worked completely as intended until i had to resize everything including both the player and the enemy, and ever since I've noticed 2 key things: 1. When the enemy is specifically larger than the player it will never stop chasing once entered its collision shape, No matter the direction its chasing the player 2. If the Player is to the right of the enemy, the enemy will chase the player but only to a certain amount. if the player goes towards the enemy, it will move away from the player(This is when the enemy is the same size or relatively similar in size to the player). While i don't believe this is an issue with the script, if anyone has had any experience similar to this or may have any sort of idea of what may be causing this please let me know!

this is awesome

This video works great and I can make the enemy move and chase the player. There's just one problem with my program, the enemy's collision does not stop when it hits my tilemap collision. So it can basically go through the walls like a ghost.(I have two collision nodes, 1 for chasing and one that's supposed to stop the enemy when it hits a wall)

say that the video is good is an abuse, the video is excellent. thank you!!!

If the enemy is heading to the left when the game starts, it's because it's heading towards the TileMap node instead. On the player scene, under collision, set Layer to 2 On the enemy scene, on detection_area under collision, set Mask to 2 only (Also, on the world scene, click on Tilemap > TileSet button on the right > Physics Layers, make sure Layer is set to 1 only)

Im following along and I have the enemy coming to me as it should. but it always positions itself to the top of me instead of the direction it came from. how would I fix this?

My enemy is detecting a tileset in "_on_detection_area_body_entered", does anyone know how to avoid this and only make it chase the player?

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Hey I'm having trouble, at 4:25. I'm not sure if there's been an update since then but when I click Collision under CharacterBody 2D the only thing that drop down is "Safe Margin" setting. I don't have the layer and mask options you do.

Hi, great tutorial, but i do have a question: My enemies only seem to be attracted to the game level itself, they all just follow where the game level is, not the player

why does ysort works on the enemy even tho we didnt tick the ysort checkbox in the enemy ordering ?

can you make a tutorial on how to do platformer controls in Godot 4 it would be really helpful

thank you without tutorials to the newest version many people including me have no chance to learn this in freetime

when i added 2 enemy's they would just go into each other when chasing the player any ideas on how to fix

I have a problem where if I duplicate enemies the attack animations I set for them only run with the original enemy. Something I noticed is if the original enemy and a duplicate have both detected and are chasing the player, if the duplicate gets in range of where the attack animation should play but the original hasn't, the original enemy will play the attack animation. It's like the detection zone is linked between the enemies. Everything else doesn't seemed to be linked, IE health, hitboxes, etc.

Whenever I enter my enemy’s collision shape the detection connection thingy in the script makes my enemy get pushed backwards (away from me)

i shouldnt have laughed that hard when youve made the integer value of speed lower instead of higher, sorry. and thank you so much for these amazing tutorials!

i don't get it, why didn't we put the enemy on detection layer 1 itself, since the enemy can detect only on layer 2 but the player is on layer 1 how is it being detected, and what is the difference between player collision and collisionshape_2D which didn't he change the layer in collisionshape_2D. and since the layer of the player is changed to 2 as well he should be able to walk over the cliffs as well.

Much easier way to do the facing: I made a function called direction() if velocity.x < 0: animated_sprite.flip_h = true else: animated_sprite.flip_h = false he'll automatically flip his direction based on his velocity instead of having to calculate everything again.

If anyone has the issue an issue where the slime won't move at all, make sure you are using the "body entered/exited" nodes and not the "area entered/exited" ones, was confused for a while on that mistake lol

thaks bro you'te beast

my player_chase variable always starts as true but I wanted to start as false I already trid calling it in a ready function but it didnt work recommendations will be greatly appreciated

Brother my enemy lags a lot, it would freeze abruptly and stop following the player. please tell how to fix this (btw nice video)

Will You Make In Game Keymaps/Joystick/Skill Button Too?

I keep running into this problem its really strange. my slime when it decects the player will sometimes teleport to the top left of the character

for some reason everytime i run, an error pops saying that base string "position" doesn't exist and it keeps crashing

How do we go about creating NPCs; not hostile but just walking around enjoying themselves?

I wanted to also have an animation to both front and back walking for the enemy, tried with a " position.y - position.y" but did not work out, any suggestions?

I don't know what's wrong with me because I copy it exactly, but the enemy jumps at me diagonally from the side and from about three times the distance. what's wrong??

if you have an issue about enemy dont move towards player, check again in player and slime offset

i tried this and its working fine. however, my slime idk why seems to get attached towards the origin.

You wont believe it, but I am ready for part 4

One of the things I found most confusing when coming to Godot from other engines, which a lot of tutorials don't seem to clarify, is a key point of how GDScript functions. Which is: linking a variable to a game object doesn't just assign your variable that object's values. It creates an active reference, and anything you do to that variable, gets done to that object. (As opposed to something like Unity, where you have to use special dedicated commands to access game objects from within another object's script.) So when you do like "var cheese = body", where body is an argument being passed into a function from a collider node, you have now linked "cheese" and that game object. And cheese now has all the properties of that game object under it. If you do "cheese.x += 1", it will pass that command through to the game object you linked. Majorly different way of thinking for me. Much easier, once I got my head around it, but a huge shift.

9:13 If your enemy isn't moving at all, makes sure it's instantiated on world, and not tile map. I spent hours trying to find out what wasn't working, quit for the day, came back this morning, deleted enemy node, went through the whole process again, for it to be this... T_T

when i start instead of staying idle it comes flying on me any idea how to resolve?

This tutorial was very helpful but i ran into (1) issue. i followed the video and code exactly but for some reason when i enter the slime's detection range it goes straight to the left and runs away from the player every time the collision bubble is entered, idk how to fix plz help

idk why, but when i start the game, my enemy moves fast twords the top left cornre, and i can't figure out why

I'm running into an issue that when the player bumps into the enemy from below, the enemy seems to become "stuck" to the player and will move anywhere the player goes at the player speed. Any ideas what is causing the issue?

I'm having an issue were the enemy runs form the player. any fixes?

I followed your video and somehow enemy is not following me. When I enter collision area enemy is not moving at all. Do you have any idea what is potential issue

Help! My slime doesn't stop chasing me when I leave the "detection_area"! My code looks identical to yours. Does anyone here know how to help? Edit: turns out I accidentally _typed out the words_ "func _on_detection_area_body_exited(body):" instead of using the actual node! I don't know how that happened, but it's fixed =)

Please put a number in the title so people can watch in order. Thanks!

Hii I have a problem when I have two enemies together they detect the player and chase him but there is no collision between them so the enemies can overlap :( can anyone help me :c

so i can fix the issue of the character being pushed around the map

9:00 I've done this code exactly the same, but for some reason my enemy goes towards the player as soon as I start the level, even though he's outside the detection range. as soon as it catches up, it starts acting normally, I don't know why

I have followed everything trough the letter up till 9:00 but my enemy does not move towards the player, but yeets off into the distance. I triple checked the code to make sure there was no + - shenanigangs going on, the colission layers are all as shown, I am really confused at this point as to what I and so many others seem to be doing wrong. Has anyone figured it out yet?

how do i get the direction an enemy is moving, without the player's input. Say my enemy has various direction animations, how do I get the enemy's direction to play those.

Hola! perdón por comentar en español, pero quería saber como solucionar algo. Es que cuando el enemigo pasa frente a una colission shape de otro objeto, este solo lo atraviesa, y no colisiona con el objeto. Incluso puede mover al jugar a través de él. Alguna ayuda?

12:57 just keeping this time link for when i come back to this video

for some reason the enemy isn't detecting the player, I know this because I used print functions to detect what you've been spotted. I put both the layer and the mask of the detection range on layer 2, and put the player on both layer 1 and 2.

Why does my enemy come flying onto the screen at my player if I have it off screen and the body isn't in the detection area?

Strange, it doesn't seem to be working for me. It makes the enemy run away from me when I go into the hit box.

Hello First of all, English isn't my 1st language so excuse me for any mistype anyways, I got a question how to make the player have an area that activates with the enemy's one cuz the enemy doesn't response at all

I don't know what i did and/or didn't do correctly, but when i get into the detection area the enemy moves away from me up the y-axis. any advice would be helpful.

the video is pretty old, but I hope someone can answer me. What to do if I have the problem "Cannot find the propety player on base Vector2"?

Why is the slime running away?

Bro enemy move when player collide but it not came near the character

I did this exact thing, and when i run towards the slime, it just goes away from me, i followed the tutorial step by step, and it doesnt follow me, it just keeps on going away from me

I did everything in the tutorial on how to create the enemy but my enemy does not collide with the collisions that I placed on the TileMaps, it passes through them, please help

i keep having an issue where my enemy appears in front of the player when i walk in front of it, any clue what could be wrong here?

What if it’s said the player is not found

My enemy starts with it’s running animation, how do I fix that

I've got a problem, my enemy has no collisions with the objects

Well my enemy is just running from me😂😂

This tutorial has been great but I have run into one problem. When I try to play the game the enemy won’t chase the player but it sits in the same position relative to the player. For example it will be 2 tiles to the left and 1 tile up from wherever the player is. The slime will also move at any speed to get to that position. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?