How Do I Get my Enemy to face and then follow my player in a 2D Top Down Shooter

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1

I currently have a very simple 2D Top Down shooter on the X, Y plane
W A S D are used to move the player and he always faces the mouse
I have implemented a basic enemy (green square)
I would like to know what script I could add to it to get it to face and then travel towards the player
i have seen another question on this page BUT it didnt work for me because it was based on the X, Z plane and would travel towards the player but rotate weirdly
Many Thanks in Advance

2

Hope this helps, make sure your freeze your other axis if you don’t want him to turn on a certain axis(you can do this in your hierarchy for your enemy), if you do want him to rotate then don’t freeze axis and still try this code, do you mind c#, i used this in my Top Down Rpg @4_Tuna

if you want to freeze an axis in your script use this: Freeze rigidbody position in script - Unity Answers

public class FollowAI : MonoBehaviour {

public static bool moving;
public GameObject Player;
public float speed = 2f;

void Start () 
{
	Player = GameObject.Find("Player");
	Debug.Log("PlayerFound");
}

void Update () 
{
	moving = true;
	transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, Player.transform.position, speed*Time.deltaTime);
}

}

3

And to look at enemy use

enemy.transform.LookAt(player)
    enemy.rotation.x = 0;
    enemy.rotation.y = 0;

Or change those two lines depending on which axis you want your enemy to spin.