Moving form one point to another

Hi,

I am stuck on this problem and would appreciate any help given here.

I had created 3 objects: 1 ghost and 2 tombstone.

I would like the ghost to move from one tombstone to another and return to the previous tombstone repeatedly. Sort of like ghost patrolling from one point to another repeatedly.

However I could only made the ghost to travel to 1 tombstone and when it return it does not stop, instead it go right through.

Anyone kindly help please? Thanks.

I attached my code for viewing here. Thanks

After the ghost turns and once is again two meters away from tombstone2 the program goes back to just doing the true part of your if statement (which is just a move forward statement).

Hi,

Thanks for replying but I had also tried various distance in front or others distance methods to no avil.

Would appreciate any help given! thanks.

There’s always multiple ways to program something. In this case I’d might use a Boolean variable to keep track of which tombstone the ghost was facing.

Set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to false.

While …

  If  ("Is ghost going toward tombstone 1")  then
    if  (ghost is a least 2 meters from tombstone1)  then
        ghost move forward 0.5 meters
    else
       ghost turn to face tombstone2
       ghost move forward 0.5 meters
       set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to false.

  Else
    if   (ghost is a least 2 meters from tombstone2)  then
     ghost move forward 0.5 meters
   else
     ghost turn to face tombstone1
     ghost move forward 0.5 meters
     set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to true

(But there are probably better ways to do this.)

Hi,
I tried your method but it seem that the ghost will stop moving after it turn to face tombstone 2. this is properly due to the boolean valur turning to false.

Is it possible to help try amend the code to achieve what I needed.

I am so lost.

thanks.

Originally Posted by Digimath

There’s always multiple ways to program something. In this case I’d might use a Boolean variable to keep track of which tombstone the ghost was facing.

Set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to false.

While …

  If  ("Is ghost going toward tombstone 1")  then
    if  (ghost is a least 2 meters from tombstone1)  then
        ghost move forward 0.5 meters
    else
       ghost turn to face tombstone2
       ghost move forward 0.5 meters
       set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to false.

  Else
    if   (ghost is a least 2 meters from tombstone2)  then
     ghost move forward 0.5 meters
   else
     ghost turn to face tombstone1
     ghost move forward 0.5 meters
     set "Is ghost going toward tombstone 1" to true

(But there are probably better ways to do this.)

I modified your program with some changes that now make the ghost patrol between the two tombstones