I have a question. Say I have a picture of an ant
bitblt'ed onto the form. I want that ant to be able to turn a full 360 degrees and walk in whichever direction it is facing.
the only problem is, with what i know, i can only get the ant to walk a choppy sort of line in the 8 cardinal directions. (up down left right and the in-between angles)
I was wondering if there was a (fairly) easy way to do this?
(so I don't have to draw a HUGE number of ants just to do the animation)
also. is there a way to define an "invisible" circle around the "ant" and check to see if "food" is within that circle, and if it is, the ant would walk in that direction...
In case you were wondering, i'm working on an a-life program, and right now it's pretty good, but the graphics just show little dots on the form where the life forms are, and I'm really trying to get the graphics a little better.