> Problem is that the landscape is constantly changing. > > I made a mistake when I presented this issue. > Actually the globs don't know where the nearest resource is. > They only know how far away each of their neighbouring squares is > from the next specific resource. > > From a player point of view, we could break that down further: > A glob only knows which is the next square to which it must go and > whether it itself is > the glob that is closest to a specific resource. > I think that is information that the player has as soon as that glob > starts to move. > > > We store the pathways as gradient values on each square of the map. > So the path-finding might not be something that the globs do either. > It could be some property of the ground that the globs learned to exploit. > > We don't recompute that gradient each turn - I think every fifth turn. > So for a second or so a glob can walk in a wrong direction.
We could say that the globules "smell" the resources. Have a nice day, Steph -- http://stephane.magnenat.net _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list glob2-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
