This video tutorial shows you how to handle homing with multiple targets in GameMaker Studio.
The idea is quite simple. You have multiple targets but want to home into not the nearest one all the time. So what you can do is have a target randomly assigned to each homing rocket in a specific radius with a collision list. If that target is not more you assigne randomly another one and so forth.
Optional: You can have for each target a variable that marks it as being homed in. So when a rocket is being spawned it checks if that one is already marked and if not it reserves plus set this target for this rocket. This is not being shown in this video but a thought to explore if you really want to make this very distinct.
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0:00 Explaining what we will do
0:55 Subscribe
1:05 Concept explained
2:38 Coding part, easy way to only home to the nearest instance/target
5:40 Setting up multi homing where rockets scatter to random targets
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