I need some help finding the nearest room

Calfa

Hello everyone!

I use flags to place them in rooms i don't control and then do stuff there. Once the flag is placed, "it" looks for the nearest room and uses its spawn to create desired creeps.

This is how it does...

let minDist = 10;      // A random distance to start with
let distance = 0;      // Starting random value
let targetSpawn = null;

//If the flag aready has a target room...
if(_.isString(flag.memory.targetRoom)){
    targetSpawn = Game.getObjectById(Game.rooms[flag.memory.targetRoom].memory.spawns[0].id);

//But if it doesn't, i "teach" it, and here is where my issue comes...
}else{

    //Here i try to look for the nearest room
    for (let i in Game.rooms){
        if(Game.rooms[i].controller.my){
            distance = Game.map.getRoomLinearDistance(flag.pos.roomName, Game.rooms[i].name, true);
            if(distance < minDist && null!=Game.rooms[i].memory.spawns){
                minDist = distance;
                flag.memory.targetRoom = Game.rooms[i].name;
            }
        }
    }
    targetSpawn = Game.getObjectById(Game.rooms[flag.memory.targetRoom].memory.spawns[0].id);
}

Mi issue is that it seems to consider adjacent rooms as near as diagonal rooms, and this is what i want to (and can't) avoid.

Thanks in advance, dear fellows!!

Flyasd1

I think you can change Game.map.getRoomLinearDistance on Game.map.findRoute(flag.pos.roomName, Game.rooms[i].name). So you will found nearest room by path, not a range. Because some time nearest rooms have very long path to travel between those rooms.