Legend of Zelda style blade trap movement trigger

[NecroVirus]

Was hoping to have some spinning blade traps that only move vertically or horizontally like the rook in chess. Anyone know the trick to getting a unit to move in the direction of an angle?

 

[Cheshire]

do you want them to move on a set path, or with some varying function?

either way shouldn't be too difficult. set points using the angle you want and order them to move to there.

If you don't like that then you can just have them move with some variation of a "knockback system" where the only ways they can move are vertically and horizontally.

if you want them to be player-controlled, then maybe give them a seperate ability to go each seperate direction with a pushback type movement mechanic. and if you want it to work automatically, you can just bump the unit vertically and horizontally (separately) untill it reaches the point it was ordered to go to.

 

[NecroVirus]

I was gonna have the trap be placed by players anywhere but now I'm thinkin it will be way easier to just give it hard set pathing as a hazard for everyone

 

[Uncle]

You can always just tell the unit to Patrol between two points. You could give it the Locust ability and Permanent Immolation for a simple but effective setup.

 

[NecroVirus]

You can always just tell the unit to Patrol between two points. You could give it the Locust ability and Permanent Immolation for a simple but effective setup.

That's way easier than what I planned to do, thanks!