koobas.hobune.stream
Select from an array based on values
I have an array of distances from the player to the enemy spawn point from which I am looking to pick out a value. Instead of choosing the closest value, I am looking to randomly select a distance based on its proximity, so if all the values were very similar, any could be chosen, where as if they were radically different, the chosen value would mostly be the closest value. Thanks!
I don't understand what you're trying to do. Can you explain why?
I'm spawning an enemy every 5 seconds from any one of the spawn points around my map. To avoid enemies only spawning from the closest point which the player can currently just camp around, I'm looking for some code which will add a chance that other spawn points will be chosen, with the likelihood of being chosen linked to their proximity.
You necessarily need to define a 'tolerance' value which defines 'proximity' and then, you necessarily need to scan the whole array every time.
So you can solve this by a sorting algorithm, or by simply scanning the array every iteration, picking out the nearest value, then picking a random value, and seeing if such value is 'close enough' or if you need to fall back to the nearest value.
