Bug or Me? (Stranded in the Dunes - Automated) [Python]

Bugs
1

Hi All,

Hoping someone can help me out here; trying to complete “Stranded in the Dunes” in Python and, whilst I don’t believe it’s a bug per se, I’m really not sure how to complete it without using flags.

The problem being that when I use self.pos.x+1 to move the character right, that’s all well and fine up until it hits the right border and the scene changes, but that currentPos = self.pos isn’t updating, because the last x point is held over from the previous screen.

This can be demonstrated in a particularly horrible and simple loop I used to narrow down the issue here:


loop:
    enemy = self.findNearestEnemy()

    if enemy:
        self.attack(enemy)
    else:
        currentPos = self.pos
        self.say(currentPos)
        self.moveXY(currentPos.x + 1, currentPos.y)

Without knowing how (or being able?) to edge detect, I’m not really sure how to do this level without using flags, which I was hoping to do.

Kind Regards,
WryZed

2

Get rid of the variable currentPos and just use self.pos. That way, the hero will be constantly updating its position and you shouldn’t have this problem.

3

Tried that already unfortunately:

loop:
    enemy = self.findNearestEnemy()

    if enemy:
        self.attack(enemy)
    else:
        self.moveXY(self.pos.x + 1, self.pos.y)

Same result.

I did actually manage to find “something” of a workaround, although not particularly elegant, which was this:

loop:
    enemy = self.findNearestEnemy()

    if enemy:
        self.attack(enemy)
    else:
        currentPos = self.pos
        self.say(currentPos)
        if currentPos.x > 117:
            self.moveXY(currentPos.x +0.4,currentPos.y)
            self.say("Hmm!") # Seems you need a pause here for the screen right transition kick in.
            self.moveXY(1,currentPos.y)
        else:
            self.moveXY(currentPos.x + 1, currentPos.y)

Which I’m not going to lie, is horrible, but going to expand on it a bit and see if it holds true to other screens as it progresses right.

4

Ok, so this actually works, which is the cleanest I can get it at this stage:

    else:
        if self.pos.x > 118:
            self.say("Next!") # Pause required to allow screen transition to right
        else:
            self.moveXY(self.pos.x + 1, self.pos.y)