Mad Maxer Please Help!

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1 
# Attack the enemy that's farthest away first.

while True:
    farthest = None
    maxDistance = 0
    enemyIndex = 0
    enemies = hero.findEnemies()
    
    # Look at all the enemies to figure out which one is farthest away.
    while enemyIndex < len(enemies):
        target = enemies[enemyIndex]
        enemyIndex += 1
        
        # Is this enemy farther than the farthest we've seen so far?
        distance = hero.distanceTo(target)
        if distance > maxDistance:
            maxDistance = distance
            farthest = target
        
    if farthest:
        # Take out the farthest enemy!
        # Keep attacking the enemy while its health is greater than 0.
        hero.attack(farthest)
        pass

Can someone help?

2

What problem/error are you seeing? Off the top, it looks like you are only attacking the enemy once…you should add a while loop that keeps attacking until it is dead.

3 
# Keep attacking the enemy while its health is greater than 0.

“while its health is greater than 0” is the idea you left out

4 
# Attack the enemy that's farthest away first.

while True:
    farthest = None
    maxDistance = 0
    enemyIndex = 0
    enemies = hero.findEnemies()
    
    # Look at all the enemies to figure out which one is farthest away.
    while enemyIndex < len(enemies):
        target = enemies[enemyIndex]
        enemyIndex += 1
        
        # Is this enemy farther than the farthest we've seen so far?
        distance = hero.distanceTo(target)
        if distance > maxDistance:
            maxDistance = distance
            farthest = target
    
    if farthest and farthest.health > 0:
        # Take out the farthest enemy!
        # Keep attacking the enemy while its health is greater than 0.
        hero.attack(farthest)
        pass

My hero is still dying…

5

i thought the while true loop is a while loop? because i added that but my hero still is dying

6

Oh wait i figured it out by myself

7

Glad you got it figured out :slight_smile:

And, you are right…a while loop is a while loop. However, their importance and/or behavior can be greatly impacted by where they are placed. A single block of code could contain many loops…the first/outer loop is usually the main ‘true loop’ (sometimes not always tho). But inside that main loop, you can nest other loops that control specific, smaller, blocks of code.

As Rheat mentioned:

is one such embedded loop.

You can also step blocks of code by using loops. These are different from nested loops, in that the first step must complete, before the the next one will run. Kind of like:

firstStep == "notDone"
while True:
    while firstStep == "notDone":
        # do things to complete first step
        firstStep == "done"

secondStep == "notDone"
    while secondStep == "notDone":
        # do second step
        secondStep == "done"

Honestly, both of those loops are nested inside the outer ‘true’ loop, but they do (I hope) help to show the concept of stepping.