Enemies not following the player

Beginner Questions
#1

Hi.
I’m new to unity… I’m making a 2D top down shooter game where enemies will follow the player… I implemented the A* pathfinding on my enemy and turned it into a prefab… I then made an enemy spawner script and added the enemy prefab into the script component… But I can’t seem to add the player GameObject into the enemy prefab… I tried to fix the issue by making the player a prefab as well but the enemies only go to one point where the player was… How do I fix this issue? How do I make the spawned enemies follow the player using the pathfinder project? please help me out guys

#2

Hi

You need to assign the actual player object to the target once the enemies have been spawned. This requires a script.

If you assign it in the prefab you will just reference the prefab, not the instantiated object in the scene.

#3

So Basically I can’t use a prefab… But can you give me an idea on how I can achieve my goal using a script? some pseudo codes will do…

#4

Something like

GetComponent<AIDestinationSetter>().target = actualTarget;

I would suggest you read up on some beginner scripting tutorials for Unity to learn more.

#5

Alright man… Thanks a lot for helping me out <3

#6

Hi do you solved the problem? I am new too and i cant find anything that works.