This is my first post here and it will be fun the see how fast you can crack this little problem of mine: I am creating a actionpacked game with a game engine simular to Blood Omen: Legacy Kain. It all works fine with the layers and so on(using CDX to wrap DirectX). Now heres where I have messed up. All the character is supossed to be turning with the same funtion but I dont get it to work. So here is the layout. Every guy has 8 positions: 1:Up 2:Diagonal RightUp 3:Right 4:Diagonal RightDown 5:Down 6:Diagonal LeftDown 7:Left 8:Diagonal LeftUp When you press RIGHT the guy shall turn his body around so he faces right and then walk. But he shall turn the fastest way. For example: If he is at postion 7:left and we press UP he should rotate to the right(+1) and not to the left(-1). I really want the whole thing to be with only ONE ''if''. Something like this: if (x - y = 1) { rotate(left); } else { rotate (right); } x where he is, y where he wants to get. I know this isnt the right formula to use and that is what I want you to help me with or if you have another solution.

Worked like a charm. Even cleaner code then I wrote(almost a page...) Tnx alot.

[edited by - tgn376j on April 20, 2004 9:45:52 AM]

And cleaning up the math a bit (just some basic algebra on the internal conditions):

if (x > y){  if (x - y > 4)    rotate(right);  else    rotate(left);}else if (y > x){  if (y - x > 4)    rotate(left);  else    rotate(right);}

shmoove

This is amzing, in just one hour all this great response.

[edited by - tgn376j on April 20, 2004 10:47:02 AM]

No. Try y=8 and x=1 for instance. The original rotates left and your examples rotates right.
It can be done in one if with a more complicated condition, but that would have no advantages, and it would make the code uglier.

shmoove

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this reply is to lemurion of course
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[edited by - shmoove on April 20, 2004 10:47:38 AM]

Just tried that one and that was the result I got when trying to do the whole thing in one if.