access trains Thread - TrAInsported

Hi,

is there any interface to access the current details of my own trains?

e.g. get the current position/direction?

If not: Do trains move at a constant speed (time per tile), so i could calculate the current position by time and last position? (or maybe some other hint)

thanks for this nice "game"

i'm looking forward to finishing my first competetive ai.

Trains does have .x and .y as current position and .dir as direction.
But you only get the train object when its delievered by the function.
Trains can be blocked and then they do not move.

Trains also slow down when picking up and dropping off passengers. So you can't calculate the exact position.

However, every time the train Object is passed to one of your function, you can get it's .x and .y value to see where you're currently at.

To see what values an object has, try this code (for the trAIn objetct):

function ai.chooseDirection( train, dirs )
	for k, v in pairs(train) do -- iterates through all the key, value pairs in the table "train"
		print(k, v)
	end
end

I think this is explained somewhere in the depths of tutorial three.

Edited by: Germanunkol

thanks for answers

guess have to estimate the exact position between relevant calls then...

btw. slowdown on drop / pickup ain't a problem as i get the exact position right at this event

i'm just trying to calc the "passenger value" for each train on newPassenger, so i can decide witch train might change it's way