Lunar style enemies

[mojoaa13]

In the most awesome game Lunar, the enemies appear on the map and if the player gets to close will move towards the player and upon contact initiate battle sequence.

Is there a way for me to set a similar system, using default battle system in RMXP. ie having an enemy sprite move randomly until player is x tiles away and then enemy sprite moves in for the kill.

 

[jbart321]

You could probably just do it with events. I don't think scripting is all that necessary.

 

[tibuda]

This is the way I do.
Add the following script in the script editor somewhere before the Main:

class Game_Event
  def move_type_enemy(range, frequency = 6)
    if (self.x - $game_player.x) ** 2 + (self.y - $game_player.y) ** 2 <= range ** 2
      @move_frequency = frequency
      move_type_toward_player
    else
      @move_frequency = @page.move_frequency
      move_type_random
    end
  end
end

And then, open your enemy event set the trigger to "event touch", and the following script in the custom move route:

move_type_enemy(5, 6)

replacing 5 for the tiles distance you want, 6 for the movement frequency when the enemy is following the player.
And finnaly I add a battle processing command, allowing escape, and if the party wins, i add a Erase event command.