Topic: AI: init.lua blocks the game

I did not know about break... Also goto will be much usefull one time in future

Thanks for advices!

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Tibor wrote:

Today I spent some time on a road algorithm, though an algorithm itself is logical and reliable, to put it into lua is too complex for me. I am thinking about other approach now...

BTW, what is miss most in LUA is break and continue

As mentioned before I also got intrigued and though about writing some AI stuff in Lua. So I started with a road connection algorithm - also I was interested how much work it would be to pull this off in Lua. It is a little rough around the edges, but basically works. I agree that the engine should provide this to Lua instead of this needed to be written in Lua, but oooh well. For now you can find my little script here:

https://gist.github.com/SirVer/8773693

I think I will drop it into the repository, probably in infrastructure.lua. But not before b18 and not before I wrote some tests for it. In the meantime, I hope it is useful.

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that function should be easy to write. Something along these lines could work:

function connect_to_nearest_flag(flag)
   for i=0,10 do
      for idx, f in ipairs(flag.fields[1]:region(i+1,i)) do
         if f.immovable and f.immovable.name == "flag" and
            f.immovable.owner == flag.owner
         then
            if connect_flags(flag, f.immovable) then
               return true
            end
         end
      end
   end
   return false
end

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If you come up with a bunch of nice algorithms I think we should put them into infrastructure.lua or something similar. This road building algo for example might be useful for scenarios too.

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