Tutorial Space Shooter Enemies not coming on screen

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I can’t find anyone who has this problem. My enemies don’t move when outside of the screen canvas. But they will move when on the screen canvas.

I followed the instructions which are:
Condition
The X position of Enemies >= CameraX()+450

Action
Add to Enemies an instant force, angle 180 degrees and length: 200 pixels

Anyone know why they only move on the canvas?

Instructions:

" Finally, we need to give a force to move enemies . However, we should provide a force when they are on the camera. Hence, we will add a new condition to perform our idea. In this condition, we are looking at the Enemies’ X position when it is less than the center Camera X position + 450 . Make sure that less or equal to is selected in the sign of the test."

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That says “Greater than or equal to”. The tutorial say “less than or equal to”


Also, it only moves when on screen because that’s what the tutorial says:

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I type the wrong thing on here, but I finally found it, I had left Timedelta with small d and didn’t see.

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Also Instant Force means it’ll instantly snap to where you want it. You want Permanent Force I think.

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Urm, applying force doesn’t teleport it because there is not X Y position, just direction an speed. I’m new to this software but I’m very sure permanent means it keeps applying the force even when the condition isn’t true. It’s good for bullets.

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To clarify on this, Instant force means the force is applied once, for a single frame, if all conditions are true. If the conditions are true every frame it’ll keep having a force applied.

Permanent force means that the force is applied every frame regardless of conditions, after it is applied.

Neither have anything to do with snapping to the destination.

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Sorry about that! I was thinking of a different engine, been playing with several lately. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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