Enemy Delayed Attack

Overview

DelayedAttackTask() allows an enemy to perform melee attacks on a specified target layer. It is performed whenever a target is within the attack's hitbox, so long as no other tasks have a higher priority. The enemy will then wait until the cooldown is finished before spawning the attack hitbox. The attack is successful if the target collides with the hitbox, and the hitbox will disappear after a certain amount of time.

Usage

DelayedAttackTask() should be called inside of EnemyFactory.java for each enemy that has a melee attack.

The method takes four parameters:

Parameter	Description
target	The entity to attack (player)
priority	The priority of the task
attackRange	The maximum range at which the attack can be performed
attackDelay	The time between beginning the attack task and creating the hitbox
attackDamage	The damage dealt to enemies
attackKnockback	The knockback dealt to entities

When the task is called, the enemy will do nothing until the attackCooldown is finished, at which point it will spawn an attack entity (see Enemy Attack Factory) with the specified attackRange, attackDamage, and attackKnockback values. The attack will dissappear after one second. If any entity from the target's physics layer collides with the attack before it is removed, the entity will receive both damage and knockback.