Can't figure out what's wrong

1

Well, this lvl looked very simple to me, so I was doing a mockup that would pickup coins at least there was an enemy near me, in which case I would to to the teleporter, how ever, the hero seems to ignore the enemy instruction and just go and pickup coins, what’s wrong? :frowning:

loop:
index = 0
enemies = self.findEnemies()
enemy = enemies [index]
items = self.findItems()
coin = items[index]

if enemy and self.distanceTo(enemy) < 5:
    self.moveXY(7, 20)

elif coin:
    self.moveXY(coin.pos.x, coin.pos.y)
2

Your code will only have your hero move to (7, 20) if:

  • The enemy indexed as [0] (not necessarily the closest) is within 5

  • You aren’t moving towards a coin.

Is there a reason you aren’t using self.findNearest() or self.move() ?

3

No particular reason for no using nearest, just wanted to get better at the while function. Is there any reason to use self.move instead of self.move(x,y)?

4

Right there would be two ways to check to see any enemy is within 5:

  1. Go through the enemies one a time to see if any are within 5. This would require a loop that goes through each enemy to see if it is in 5. You would want to use a for loop for this (although you don’t have to)

  2. Only check to see if the nearest enemy is within 5 (because if the closest isn’t in 5, no enemy is within 5)

The second one is easier to code.

The difference between move() and moveXY() is that move only moves 1 step at a time and allows for other things to happen. moveXY() will move you to the point before other code will happen (like checking to see if enemies are close)