I decided to remake the way the enemies move in this as enemies play a bigger part in this version of Ikarus compared to the previous version. While it would be nice to have complex movement paths it could over complicate things for now.

I did some experiments with rotating track points using a tracking script that gives each enemy a different value to move towards.

I eventually found that the most successful way to do this was to have a point behind the player that the enemies are trying to reach, so I created this script that mirrors the player’s movement (minus the rotation as that caused some serious problems, enemies could essentially all be controlled through aiming). I couldn’t do this via attaching it to the player as it would count as killing the player when the enemies reached this point.

Code (Move towards cube):

	public GameObject target;

	void Update () 
	{
		{
		target = GameObject.FindWithTag("EnemyTarget");
		transform.LookAt(target.transform);
	        }
	}

This goes on each enemy.

Code (Mirror player’s XY position):

	public Transform playerme;

	public Vector3 posFollow = new Vector3(0,0,0);

	void Start () 
	{
	
	}
	
	void Update () 
	{
		this.transform.position = playerme.position;
		this.transform.position = this.transform.position + posFollow;
	}

This goes on the cube behind the player.

I started making simple enemy specific movement paths by making the enemies have invisible rotating parent objects.

While experimenting with alternative approaches to water I discovered that the cloth component I was using also worked with the enemies.

I set constraints on the main body of the virus and left the limbs unconstrained so that they could flop about like tentacles, giving the virus an alien-like feel to it.

The result was a spider-like virus that seemed completely alien. The rotating movement path helped to keep the limbs constantly moving. This was well recieved by the team and from outside feedback so we may keep this enemy for the final build of our game, or build upon it while keeping this characterstic.