Setting boundaries for moving objects?

So, I'm creating a "game" that has a person moving left to right when "the button is pressed." Problem is, how would you restrict distances you could go? Like not to move past a certain tree so many meters, for instance? Any help would be great, thanks

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ill make an example program and explain that hold on lol

so this is how it works
when the world starts it runs a loop of if statements of
if camera is withing 5 meters of box
then move camera back 10 meters
and it keeps on runing that over and over and over ect. lol
but only 1 bug.
when you backup into it it doesnot work, i dont know howto fix this but when i find out ill post it.

file of example in attachments (: hope this helped

Put an "if/else" statement then "true" and make (under functions) "[object] is with in threshold of[object]"
then under the "if" and "else" parts put the methods you want the world to do.

Originally Posted by Nickto1414

ill make an example program and explain that hold on lol

so this is how it works
when the world starts it runs a loop of if statements of
if camera is withing 5 meters of box
then move camera back 10 meters
and it keeps on runing that over and over and over ect. lol
but only 1 bug.
when you backup into it it doesnot work, i dont know howto fix this but when i find out ill post it.

file of example in attachments (: hope this helped

Yeah, thats happened before to me with the loop . Thanks for the help though.
I think I'll just make the world go black and a "Game Over" message appear after the said object moves past the camera bounds (which I marked with some nice-looking DX7 trees haha.)

The If/Else function sounds like it could work though. But you just might get the loop effect like Nickto1414 said.

Thanks guys, really appreciate it