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Question by joeyrubio · Apr 01, 2011 at 11:50 PM · movementaicharactercontrollerstucknpc

How to check if a character hasn't changed its position in the last x seconds?

In my game, there is a NPC that follows Waypoints in a sort of maze style game. Its movement is done through the Character Controller function : Move. Sometimes it gets stuck. If move gets called every frame (in the Update())... How would you check every 'x' seconds if the object has changed its position by 'y' much?

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Answer by DaveA · Apr 02, 2011 at 12:39 AM

Something like:

var lastCheckTime = 0; var lastCheckPos : Vector3; var xSeconds = 3.0; var yMuch = 1.0;

Update() if ((Time.time - lastCheckTime) > xSeconds) { if (npc.transform.pos - lastCheckPos).magnitude < yMuch) DoYourPanic() lastCheckPos = npc.transform.pos; lastCheckTime = Time.time; }

Note this is untested and won't compile but should give you the idea. Also, it will count as 'unmoved' if the npc moves away but then moves back before the next check comes around. To get around that, check more often, and increment a counter of when it hasn't moved. If that count reaches a certain threshold, then panic.

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Thanks! I'll try it out and let you know how it goes!

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And it works perfectly! Thank you very much!

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