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well that broke, lets try with code tags -_-

First up, distance finding ^_^ I'm out to make a function that can return the distance (as one value) between 2 points based on an x/z axis (as the terrain for my game is always flat, y is not important). So something like Get_Dist(x1, z1, x2, z2) - Any ideas? I can of course compare the two x's and z's, but i figured I would have to combine them into one value some how.. like to adverage them or something.. or perhaps will just adding them together work? like a = x1 + z1, b = x2 + y2... and then something like if a > b then return a - b else return b - a... im not sure, my head hurts whenever i think about it for some reason -_- Guess im not having a good day! but just to calrify it would be used in this kind of way:



this is for my ai routine to decide if a target is nearer ^^

About constants.. they dont seem to be working for me :/ Check this out:



That does not work.. but if i replace Case SHELL_TYPE with Case 1 then it DOES work.. -_- Also, pressing F1 on #constant causes the help system to error as it cant find the page *_* real annoying for me because i use constants ALOT in my programming :/

Anyone have any ideas about any of these two things? Thanks in advance for your time ^_^

(Sorry for broken first message, i hope the code tags fixed it)

This function will do the trick:



The constants are not broken, you need to drop the = sign, so:

#CONSTANT SHELL_TYPE = 1

becomes:

#CONSTANT SHELL_TYPE 1

ahh! Thankyou so much! I really appreichate that ^_^

Oh! you need the blasted '#' hey? That might just help me, thx!