Archer Strats for melee

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Does anyone know how to make archers move back and surround a melee unit when they come close?

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Hmm… I think you’d have to use maths and modulo / a for loop

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try using the code from the Skating Away level. The vectors there are used to make the code :slight_smile: tell me if u need more help

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for loop wouldn’t do anything, but I have an idea of how to do it with math

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That level isn’t very useful for this, maybe brew ball would be

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bro the vectors help alot bro

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I need some more help on vectors. Why should you normalize a vector and multiply it by 10? (I made the mistake of copying someone’s code so didn’t learn the concept.)

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here,
if enemy:

                goalPoint = friend.pos
                goal = Vector.subtract(goalPoint, enemy.pos)
                goal = Vector.normalize(goal)
                goal = Vector.multiply(goal, 2)
                distance = friend.distanceTo(enemy)
                yV = Vector.subtract(friend.pos, enemy.pos)
                yV = Vector.normalize(yV)
                yV = Vector.multiply(yV, 2)
                goal = Vector.add(yV, goal)

thats the vectors u need to use

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you dont want to do that, you only want to multiply it by 2 or not even multiply it

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Should you command that friend to move goal?

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yea, if you don’t understand why this works, I can explain. Please dont use it without knowing why it works tho :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, I didn’t really understand vectors yet

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Heres why it works, the code above calculates the distance between the enemy hero and the archer (basic distanceTo)
this part:

goal = Vector.subtract(goalPoint, enemy.pos)
goal = Vector.normalize(goal)
goal = Vector.multiply(goal, 2)
distance = friend.distanceTo(enemy)
yV = Vector.subtract(friend.pos, enemy.pos)
yV = Vector.normalize(yV)
yV = Vector.multiply(yV, 2)
goal = Vector.add(yV, goal)

calculates the best position for the archer to move to.

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Oh, so the vector is the value/point when subtracted from an value

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yup, your catching on rlly fast!

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Thx bro, it helps :slight_smile: (20 chars lol)

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There’s a bug when I put the code in my loop:
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(It says “target an x and y value”)
I also have programmation V, so vectors aren’t the problem

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dont do goal.pos, a vector is already a pos, so ur techincally doing

x.pos.pos,y.pos.pos

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also instead of if goal, do if distance<=#whateverNumber

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Oh yeah, because I think it would go to the enemy, not away

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