I'm working on an enemy called a "Charger". The idea is that once the player gets within 250 pixels of it, it will charge in a straight direction for 240 pixels, not altering its path until it is finished charging. HOWEVER. I have noted the following behaviour:
Either
a. The charger does absolutely nothing.
or
b. The charger moves in a vertical line for a second, then stops. It never moves again.
The idea is a little bit ahead of my coding abilities, so I'm not entirely sure of what I'm doing while I write this. Here is the class (it's a fair bit of code, bear with me):
What am I doing wrong? Or is the idea just beyond me at the moment? I'm fine with it if I have to give up on it, there's lots more types of enemies I'm going to code.
public class Charger extends Enemy
{
Room room;
Stats stats;
Character character;
String collisionSide;
double realXloc, realYloc;
double health = 10;
int chargeRemaining = 0;
int recharge = 0;
double moveSpeed = 4;
double yMomentum, xMomentum, xDistance, yDistance = 0;
private String chargePlayer = "false";
public void act()
{
damageTimer();
checkCollision();
chargeAtPlayer();
moveMe();
//findPlayer();
}
public void damageTimer()
{
if(recharge > 0)
{
recharge = (recharge - 1);
}
}
public void addedToWorld(World world)
{
room = (Room)getWorld();
stats = room.stats;
character = room.character;
realXloc = getX();
realYloc = getY();
}
public void checkCollision()
{
collisionSide = detectCollisionReturnSide((int)moveSpeed, (int)xMomentum, (int)yMomentum);
if("Right".equals(collisionSide) || "Left".equals(collisionSide))
{
//determine up or down
if(yDistance > 0) {
yMomentum = moveSpeed; }
else {
yMomentum = -moveSpeed; }
xMomentum = 0;
}
if("Up".equals(collisionSide) || "Down".equals(collisionSide))
{
//determine right or left
if(xDistance > 0) {
xMomentum = moveSpeed; }
else {
xMomentum = -moveSpeed; }
yMomentum = 0;
}
}
public void findPlayer()
{
xDistance = (character.getX() - getX());
yDistance = (character.getY() - getY());
if(Math.abs(xDistance) > Math.abs(yDistance) && Math.abs(xDistance) < 250)
{
chargeRemaining = 60;
chargePlayer = "x";
}
else if(Math.abs(yDistance) > Math.abs(xDistance) && Math.abs(xDistance) < 250)
{
chargeRemaining = 60;
chargePlayer = "y";
}
else
{
chargePlayer = "false";
}
}
public void chargeAtPlayer()
{
if("x".equals(chargePlayer))
{
if(xDistance > 0) {
xMomentum = moveSpeed; }
else {
xMomentum = -moveSpeed; }
yMomentum = 0;
chargeRemaining = (chargeRemaining - 1);
if(chargeRemaining <= 0)
{
chargePlayer = "false";
}
}
if("x".equals(chargePlayer))
{
if(yDistance > 0) {
yMomentum = moveSpeed; }
else {
yMomentum = -moveSpeed; }
xMomentum = 0;
chargeRemaining = (chargeRemaining - 1);
if(chargeRemaining <= 0)
{
chargePlayer = "false";
}
}
if("false".equals(chargePlayer))
{
yMomentum = 0;
xMomentum = 0;
findPlayer();
}
}
public void moveMe()
{
realXloc = realXloc + xMomentum;
realYloc = realYloc + yMomentum;
setLocation((int)realXloc, (int)realYloc);
checkBoundaries();
if(getOneIntersectingObject(Character.class) != null && recharge <= 0)
{
recharge = 60;
stats.damagePlayer(1);
}
}
public void damageEnemy(double amount)
{
BloodSplat bloodsplat = new BloodSplat();
getWorld().addObject(bloodsplat, getX(), getY());
bloodsplat.setTrans((int)((10 - health) * 25.5));
health = (health - amount);
if(health <= 0)
{
getWorld().removeObject(this);
}
}
}
