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Absolute Value?

2005-08-19, 3:33 PM #1

Compos Mentis

Posts: 2,331

Is there a quicky easy way to do this in cog? I'm rusty and just touching up an old cog and don't feel like downloading anything to check it out.

facepos = GetThingPos(dummy);
dir = VectorScale(VectorSub(facepos, GetThingPos(victim)), ABS(GetThingMass(victim) - distance));

ACTUALLY SCRATCH THAT
I do want to know the answer to that for future reference, but now I just need an idea on how to make something accellerate faster the closer it gets to it's target. I expect answers when I return (or I'll have to do it myself and that'll take 5 minutes of my precious time)

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2005-08-19, 4:10 PM #2

ProdigyOddigy

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not very hard really

Code:

THEVALUE = (GetThingMass(victim) - distance);

if(THEVALUE < 0)
{
   ABSVALUE = THEVALUE*(-1);
}

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2005-08-19, 4:13 PM #3

Compos Mentis

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I know I was hoping for some magic without an if statement, but thanks

That's the code I ended up with.

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