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Player Proximity Detector

This script gives all enemies anti gravity while they are chasing the player.

registerType("Enemy")
registerType("PlayerProximityDetector")
registerType("PlayerProximityDetector+ProximityEventEventArgs") -- nested type
registerType("MemeItem")
registerType("Rigidbody2D")
registerType("EventsForModScript")

local worldObj = getCurrentItem().transform.parent
local enemies = worldObj.GetComponentsInChildren(getType("Enemy"))

local proximityDetectors = {} -- so we can unsubscribe in cleanup even on enemies that were destroyed mid game (where .GetComponent doesn't work, but C# PlayerProximityDetector script still exists in memory, so we will store references to those here)
local gravityScalesBefore = {} --dictionary where key is id wihtin level and v

function handleProximityEvent(sender, eventArgs)
local id = sender.GetComponent("MemeItem").IdWithinLevel
local rb = sender.GetComponent("Rigidbody2D")
if eventArgs.ProximityEvent == 1 then -- on start chasing
gravityScalesBefore[id] = rb.gravityScale
rb.gravityScale = -0.169
elseif eventArgs.ProximityEvent == 2 then -- on stop chasing
if gravityScalesBefore[id] ~= nil then
rb.gravityScale = gravityScalesBefore[id]
end -- if nil, it hasn't done anti gravity yet before so don't do anything
end
end


for i, enemy in ipairs(enemies) do
local playerProximityDetector = enemy.GetComponent("PlayerProximityDetector")
if playerProximityDetector ~= nil then
proximityDetectors[i] = playerProximityDetector
playerProximityDetector.ProximityEventTriggered.add(handleProximityEvent)
end
end


function cleanup() -- called when exiting the level
for i, proxDetec in ipairs(proximityDetectors) do
proxDetec.ProximityEventTriggered.remove(handleProximityEvent)
end
end

This might be of use to you:

public enum PlayerProximityEvent
{
None = 0,
StartChasing = 1,
StopChasing = 2,
StartAttacking = 3,
StopAttacking = 4,
StartAnimating = 5,
StopAnimating = 6,
StartAudio = 7,
StopAudio = 8
}

...although the same information can be found in the API reference: