Help with getting a non-player object to move another

[Alexander Tyson]

Hi, I'm making a sokoban-style game and I have the player character as well as another character which moves in the opposite direction to the main character.

The player moves blocks fine, but when the "opposite" interacts with the blocks they don't move until the next turn (and you can't seem to use a "late" command on a movement)

[ > RegPlayer ] [ NegaPlayer ] -> [ > RegPlayer ] [ < NegaPlayer ]

[ >  RegPlayer | BlueApple ] -> [  >  RegPlayer | > BlueApple  ] 

[ >  NegaPlayer | BlueApple ] -> [  >  NegaPlayer | > BlueApple  ]  

This is what I have in the rules, does anybody have any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong?

Many thanks,

Alexander

[Alan Hazelden]

Can you post a link to a working example? That looks like it should work, which means the problem is probably somewhere else in the rules.

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[Alexander Tyson]

http://www.puzzlescript.net/editor.html?hack=d1323f07264dbc86d2d2d8b3d5359717 Here you go. I'm still very new to the world of PuzzleScript so apologies for my code being a total mess!

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[Alan Hazelden]

Your problem is that you need to have the [ > RegPlayer ] [ NegaPlayer ] -> [ > RegPlayer ] [ < NegaPlayer ] rule before the other rules - rules are executed in order, so when the NegaPlayer pushing apples rule gets checked, the NegaPlayer hasn't yet been told to be walking towards the apple, so the rule doesn't apply.

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[Alexander Tyson]

Ah wonderful, thank you!

Just noticed another problem that I'm stuggling to find a solution to. When the Regular Player moves into a wall, the "opposite" still moves in the other direction despite the regular one not moving. Is there any way to fix this?

[Hand-E-Food]

Add the require_player_movement keyword at the start of the file, in the same region where you have the title.  This will cause the turn to cancel if the player finishes where it started.

[Alexander Tyson]

That's sorted it, thank you!