Virtual object control method and apparatus, terminal, storage medium, and program product

A terminal, comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing at least one instruction, the at least one instruction being loaded and executed by the processor and causing the terminal to implement a virtual object control method including:

• displaying a game picture of a side-scrolling game, the game picture comprising a first virtual object and one or more movement paths for a user of the terminal to control the first virtual object to move in the side-scrolling game;
• in response to a use operation on a virtual prop, controlling the first virtual object to use the virtual prop for changing a use state of a movement path for the first virtual object to move in the side-scrolling game;
• generating multiple candidate path change solutions from the one or more movement paths based on attribute information of the virtual prop, wherein different path change solutions correspond to different path adjustment manners;
• displaying the multiple candidate path change solutions;
• in response to a user selection operation on a target path change solution of the multiple candidate path change solutions, adjusting a use state of a target movement path of the one or more movement paths comprised in the game picture from an unusable state to a usable state according to the virtual prop having first attribute information to obtain the adjusted target movement path;
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• displaying movement of the first virtual object on the adjusted target movement path in response to a user trigger operations.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing at least one instruction, the at least one instruction being loaded and executed by a processor of a terminal and causing the terminal to implement a virtual object control method including:

• displaying a game picture of a side-scrolling game, the game picture comprising a first virtual object and one or more movement paths for a user of the terminal to control the first virtual object to move in the side-scrolling game;
• in response to a use operation on a virtual prop, controlling the first virtual object to use the virtual prop for changing a use state of a movement path for the first virtual object to move in the side-scrolling game;
• generating multiple candidate path change solutions from the one or more movement paths based on attribute information of the virtual prop, wherein different path change solutions correspond to different path adjustment manners;
• displaying the multiple candidate path change solutions;
• in response to a user selection operation on a target path change solution of the multiple candidate path change solutions, adjusting a use state of a target movement path of the one or more movement paths comprised in the game picture from an unusable state to a usable state according to the virtual prop having first attribute information to obtain the adjusted target movement path;
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• displaying movement of the first virtual object on the adjusted target movement path in response to a user trigger operations.