Enemies running when they should be following.

[Chappy]

I’ve got a basic follow script set up for a set of enemies. The script is supposed to make the enemy look at the player up to a certain distance and, when the player gets close enough, follow the player. The script sort of works, but for some reason, when I set the maximum follow distance to anything above 10, the enemies will run away from the player instead. If I somehow get the player to the with the 10 range of the enemy before they spawn they will follow as they are supposed to.

Here’s the entire enemy code:

public float MaxDistance = 10.0f;
public float MoveSpeed = 5.0f;
public float MinDistance = 0.0f;
public Transform Target;
public float LookAtDistance = 10.0f;
public float Distance;
public float Damping = 5.0f;
private Quaternion rotation;
public bool parenting = false;
private PlayerHealth_Test playerHealth;
private float nextDam;
//private Bank rolling;
public bool rolling = false;
public float DamDelay = 2.0f;
private Leech_Mother_AI_Test spawnCount;
private GameObject LeechMother;



void Start (){

	Target = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("Player").transform;
	playerHealth = Target.GetComponent<PlayerHealth_Test>();
	parenting = false;
	// rolling = Target.GetComponent<Bank>();
	nextDam = Time.time + DamDelay;
	GameObject spawner = GameObject.Find ("Leech_Mother");
	
	spawnCount = spawner.GetComponent<Leech_Mother_AI_Test>();
	
	
}


void OnTriggerEnter(Collider Player)
	{
		transform.parent = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;		
			parenting = true;	
		}
	
void Update () {
		

	Distance = Vector3.Distance (Target.position + Target.transform.forward, transform.position);
		
	if (Distance < LookAtDistance)
	{
		LookAt();
	}
		
	if (Distance > MinDistance && Distance < MaxDistance && parenting == false)
	{
		follow ();
	}
		
	if (rolling == true)
		{
			parenting = false;
			GameObject.Destroy(this.gameObject);
			
			spawnCount.SpawnDown(1f);
		}
		
	if (parenting == true && nextDam <= Time.time)
		{
			nextDam = Time.time + DamDelay;
			playerHealth.CurrentHealth -= 1.0f;
		}	
		
	if (parenting == true && playerHealth.CurrentHealth <= 0)
		{
			parenting = false;	
		}
		
}

void LookAt(){

	rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation (Target.localPosition - transform.position);
	transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotation, Time.deltaTime * Damping);
	
}
	
void follow(){
		
	transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
		
		
}

	
	
}

[tanoshimi]

“when I set the maximum follow distance to anything above 10, the enemies will run away from the player instead”

The reason your enemies “run away” is because, based on these two lines, your enemies only start looking at the player when they are less than 10 units away:

public float LookAtDistance = 10.0f;
if (Distance < LookAtDistance)
{
  LookAt();
}

If you set the “max follow Distance” anything greater than the “LookAtDistance” (currently 10), then they’re still attempting to follow the player (i.e. the follow() routine still executes), but they do so by just walking forward in whatever direction they happen to be facing at the time:

transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);