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@fishmonk
That will be difficult. I think I can modify that, just slightly, so that it can have more then one enemy in range. However, it might not work. And making it so that only one would be in range would be difficult, if not impossible.
As for the ring idea, that's perfect, but difficult. To have it be just the right size to match the range... hard.
Thanks for the help, all the same

A tower defense game will not run very well on Scratch. But I will tell you how to properly write the scripts for the towers.

First of all you use know how to properly check series of sprites.

Say we have baddies 1 to 25

We do this, to check which baddie is closest and within range.

//on tower
set i to 0
set nearest_baddie to (baddie1)
repeat 25{
change i by 1
if (distance to (join (baddie)(i)) < distance to (nearest_baddie)){
      set nearest_baddie to (join (baddie) to (i))
     }
}
}

When you are done with that, to fire at the enemy you do this. Each tower needs its own personal bullet for this.

//on tower
if (distance to nearest_baddie < shoot_radius){
broadcast shoot bullet1    //change the number depending on what tower is used
}


Now from this you can see that a tower defense game would require a lot of loops to check things. Scratch performs very poorly and slowly with loops which is why this game won't really work out in scratch.

yo move it to requests

ArrowHead wrote:

My script EDITED:

baddie1:

<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<if><( <distance to[ tower <<> {range of tower} )>
<add [baddie1] to list [threats]>


tower:


<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<if><<  <not><(length of list threats <=> 0  )>  >>
<point towards( item (length of list threats) of list threats)
<broadcast[ shoot  ]and wait c>

The problem with your script is that if the baddie is very far away, but visible, he won't be shot at, (won't be on the list of threats).

Thescratch3 wrote:

ArrowHead wrote:

My script EDITED:

baddie1:

when gf clicked
forever
  if<(distance to[tower v]) < (range of tower) >
  add [baddie1] to [threats v]

tower:

when gf clicked
forever
  if<not<(length of [list threats v]) = (0)>>
  point towards( item (length of list [threats v]) of list [threats v])
broadcast[ shoot v]and wait

The problem with your script is that if the baddie is very far away, but visible, he won't be shot at, (won't be on the list of threats).

well, isn't that the point of having range?  there is always the possibility of very high range (65,536 should be enough)