Homing missiles

Hi, could you please tell me how to create homing missiles in platformer? I tried RTS behavior, but they keep acting strange: for one thing, their trace isn?t even close to the real-life missile trace (more on the straight line side) and sometimes when fired from a position too close to the enemy, they slow down and start hovering around the target instead of hitting it.

Apparently, I have to program custom movement and arrays for displaying a large number of missiles simultaneously. However, I?m no programmer, and would be extremely grateful if you guys could help me out. A piece of code or a sample CAP file would do just great.

Thanks.

Just give them a simple ball behavior and make them always turn towards their target.

... Unless you're trying to make them actually find a path around several obstacles?

I've made this example

It's little commented, you'll have to add collisions, player movement etc., but basics are there.

Thank you very much. Example was very helpful.