Snake Enemy

[Ansimuz]

Hi,

 

What would be the logic or best way to create a entity followed by other entities to create a snake made of linked entities.

 

For example a head entity that will be followed by other entities that form the body of the snake.

 

BTW i am using impactJS

 

[Antylum]

Hi!

I think it depends on movement type - if it will be like on your picture, than it's approximately  body.y = k*sin(body.x)

 

 

Here is some information about movement types:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/reptiles-amphibians/snake3.htm

http://ealexeckman.webs.com/

[Ansimuz]

 Thanks for i am thinking in something simple. Something like the animated gif in this post.

 

I need the logic to make the body entities to follow the head entity and make a chain.

 

[Rezoner]

So this is what I did here http://rezoner.net/labs/superrotoshooter

 

There is an invisible dot that follows some path - and each let's say 25 ms this dot is spawning a point

this.points.push[this.x, this.y];

Also remember this

if (this.points.length > this.segments.length) this.points.unshift();

Now the only thing that left is to pass these point positions to corresponding segments and make them move towards new destination.

 

You can realize this using some kind of tween (easing) or implementing simple physics with velocity.

 

I am pretty sure that there are more (clever) ways to do this tho.

[pato_reilly]

Here is a solution I worked out in Phaser:

 

http://www.patricko.byethost9.com/phaser-master/examples/_site/view_full.html?d=pato_reilly&f=pp_snake.js&t=snake

[Ansimuz]

So this is what I did here http://rezoner.net/labs/superrotoshooter

 

There is an invisible dot that follows some path - and each let's say 25 ms this dot is spawning a point

this.points.push[this.x, this.y];

Also remember this

if (this.points.length > this.segments.length) this.points.unshift();

Now the only thing that left is to pass these point positions to corresponding segments and make them move towards new destination.

 

You can realize this using some kind of tween (easing) or implementing simple physics with velocity.

 

I am pretty sure that there are more (clever) ways to do this tho.

 

Your game looks amazing!

 

By the time a read your post i implemented a solution. This is what i did i spawned the body parts with a delay each part follow the same path so it looks like they are linked even thought they are just one after another following the same path. Like cars in a road.

 

You implementation is a clever way. It may work to others.

 

Thanks for everybody for your help.