Question Enemy Teleporting not MovingTowards

Hey guys, having some trouble. I have a Vector2.MoveTowards, and it seems not to work. It seems to be moving the sprite immediately to the new spot with no walking or moving. Any help would be great!

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     private float x;
8.     private float y;
9.     public float minX;
10.     public float maxX;
11.     public float minY;
12.     public float maxY;
13.  
14.     public Animator animator;
15.  
16.     public float enemySpeed = 5f;
17.  
18.     public bool move;
19.     public bool patrol;
20.  
21.     private float waitTime;
22.     public float startWaitTime;
23.  
24.     public Transform EnemyTransform;
25.     public Transform StartTransform;
26.  
27.     Vector3 startPos;
28.     Vector2 characterScale;
29.     float characterScaleX;
30.     Vector2 movement;
31.  
32.     void Start()
33.     {
34.         characterScale = transform.localScale;
35.         characterScaleX = characterScale.x;
36.         animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
37.  
38.         waitTime = startWaitTime;
39.  
40.         //StartTransform.position = this.transform.position;
41.         startPos = this.EnemyTransform.position;
42.         move = true;
43.     }
44.  
45.     void Update()
46.     {
47.         animator.SetBool("Patrol", patrol);
48.  
49.         //transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(StartTransform.position, EnemyTransform.position, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
50.         //transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, EnemyTransform.position, enemySpeed * Time.deltaTime);
51.  
52.         if (move == true)
53.         {
54.             Patrol();
55.         }
56.  
57.         if (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, EnemyTransform.position) < 0.2f)
58.              {
59.                if (waitTime <= 0)
60.                {
61.                 waitTime = startWaitTime;
62.                 move = true;
63.                 UnityEngine.Debug.Log("Idle done");
64.             }
65.               else
66.               {
67.                 waitTime -= Time.deltaTime;
68.                 patrol = false;
69.               }
70.             }
71.  
72.  
73.  
74.  
75.         movement.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
76.         movement.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
77.  
78.         if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0)
79.         {
80.             characterScale.x = -characterScaleX;
81.         }
82.         if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0)
83.         {
84.             characterScale.x = characterScaleX;
85.         }
86.     }
87.  
88.     void FixedUpdate()
89.     {
90.         transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, EnemyTransform.position, enemySpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
91.     }
92.  
93.  
94.     void Patrol()
95.     {
96.         x = Random.Range(minX, maxX);
97.         y = Random.Range(minY, maxY);
98.         patrol = true;
99.         //EnemyTransform.position = StartTransform.position + new Vector3(x, y);
100.         EnemyTransform.position = startPos + new Vector3(x, y);
101.         move = false;
102.         UnityEngine.Debug.Log("It's working");
103.     }
104. }

 

Sprinkle some more Debug.Log() statements in to find what code is running, and why that code is running.

Is it perhaps your enemySpeed is really big? Is it perhaps your

move

boolean is not what you expect? etc. etc.

 

Oh my programming works perfectly. The enemy patrols the area, and sits idle for a little bit and goes back to patrolling. My problem is that instead of walking to the next point, he just immediately teleport there and my knowledge of C# is not enough to understand why that's so. Do I need to put a rigid body 2D in my script?

 

This is an interesting script. It says it's for the EmemyMovement. yet in some places is checks transform.position and EnemyPosion. and it has player input checks.
which tells me that script is attached to the player

line 100 is the only place that I can see that moves the enemy. and this line would teleport the enemy to a random position.
EnemyTransform.position = startPos + new Vector3(x, y);

so, you need to convert this into a MoveTowards() just like you did for the player.

and even better would be to create a script for the enemy and attach it to the enemy. but like you said. you're new and still learning.

 

Thank you. My script is destined for a enemy prefab that is patrolling. He then spawns in a small area randomly so I need him to walk in a -5 by 5 square. The script moves perfectly between his little patrol and an idle animation, the problem is he’s just teleporting to the next spot not walking towards it that’s all