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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By : Johannes Stein
Book Image

Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By: Johannes Stein

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Afterword
Index

Time for action – spicing up the AI with fuzzy values


To replace our hardcoded values, we need to use the following steps:

  1. Open the Battlefield.m file.

  2. Add a new method called fuzzyValue, as shown in the following code:

    -(float) fuzzyValue: (NSString *) value
    {
      if ([value isEqualToString:@"Very near"]) {
        return (float) (arg4random() % 40) + 40.0f;
      } else if ([value isEqualToString:@"Quite near"]) {
        result = (float) (arc4random() % 30) + 70.0f;
      } else {
        result = (float) (arc4random() % 50) + 150.0f;
      }
    }
  3. Using the following code, update the hardcoded values with the values from the fuzzyValue method:

    if ([ship checkDistanceToShip:_pirateShip] < [self fuzzyValue:@"Near"]) {
    if ([ship checkDistanceToShip:_pirateShip] < [self fuzzyValue:@"Very near"]) {
    if ([ship checkDistanceToShip:_pirateShip] < [self fuzzyValue:@"Quite near"]) {
  4. Run the example. If we were to insert logging to see what the values actually are, we would see the following output:

What just happened?

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