“Evade Character” action part plugin

A plugin for Visionaire Studio 5 that provides action parts that make a character evade another character.

This is achieved by computing the distance between the two characters. If the distance is lower than a certain minimum, Character A will move away from Character B. A speed factor can be defined to make the character temporarily speed up while evading.

This is kind of the opposite of the behavior achieved with the built-in action part “Chase Character”.

Usage

Action Part “Evade Character”

This action part makes a character (Character A) evade another character (Character B). That behavior will remai active until it is stopped with the action part “Stop Evading Character”.

• Character
  Select the character (let’s call it Character A) that should evade some other character (let’s call it Character B).
• Evade
  Select the character (Character B) that Character A should run from.
• Minimum Distance
  Define a distance (in scene pixels) here. Character A will move away from Character B if they get closer to each other than this distance.
• Speed Factor
  Define a factor for Character A’s walking speed here. The character’s walking speed will be multiplied by this factor for evading. Once the Character A is far enough from Character B, the walking speed will be reset to normal.

Action Part “Stop Evading Character”

This action part makes a character (Character A) stop evading another character. You may want to add this to the “At end of scene” action.

• Character
  Select the character that you have used as Character A in the “Evade Character” action part, and that you want to stop evading another character.

Limitations

• As of v1.0, Character A can only evade one other character at a time. Using multiple “Evade Character” action parts on the same character will likely cause unexpected behavior.
  However, multiple characters can evade the same Character B.

Version history

v1.1

• Fixed typos
• Extended README

1.0

• First version of “Evade Character”

Copyright / license

Released under MIT License

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