Posts made by DarkDestry

@mrfaul Are you sure? the flee flag works in creep.moveTo? The last time I tried it didnt work.

@w4rl0ck Except in my case the "Correct direction" was to run into a wall.

Something in my code was suppressing the error. It does return -2 but not every tick. How much of the Pathfinder.search() opts can be used in creep.moveTo()?

I wasnt even trying to punish the pathfinder lol. It was using legacy creep.moveTo() code. I was wondering why it wasn't moving to the target.

Yes. I realise that the issue can be circumvented by reducing complexity. But this is happening on 'creep.moveTo()' and there isnt an incomplete flag in that function. Neither is it returning any error codes. I was confused for a good 4 hours wondering why it was doing that. This needs to be better documented. Its just a room that any beginner can encounter and there are no indications when the path is incomplete using creep.moveTo() (Unless im missing that documentation)

The issue here is not whether the parameters of the pathfinder can be altered to fix the issue, but rather why the pathfinder is returning single position arrays as the incomplete path.

I have the following code

creep.moveTo(target.pos, {range: 1, ignoreCreeps: false, swampCost: 5, visualizePathStyle: {...}});

it results in the creep pathing through the wall to
Replay link: screeps.com/s/igfwWp

Changing the swamp cost to 4 results in the following incomplete path

Verifying with Pathfinder,

Game.rooms["E33N33"].drawPath(
    PathFinder.search(
        new RoomPosition(16,34,"E33N33"), 
        {pos: new RoomPosition(10,32,"E33N33"), range:1}, 
        {swampCost: 6}
    ).path
)

The following incomplete path is drawn with a swamp cost of 6

The following single RoomPosition path is returned when the swamp cost is 7

console.log(
    JSON.stringify(
        PathFinder.search(
            new RoomPosition(16,34,"E33N33"), 
            {pos: new RoomPosition(10,32,"E33N33"), range:1}, 
            {swampCost: 7}
        ).path
    )
)

[2:03:09 PM][shard3][{"x":16,"y":35,"roomName":"E33N33"}]

@mrfaul Thanks for the suggestion. Seems to work in simulation.

Further reading of the documentation at Pathfinder.CostMatrix does state that pathfinder only considers terrain data when finding a path. That should be further emphasized in Pathfinder docs. Reading of the sample code given at the side does show it generating a cost matrix and marking all structures as 0xff.

Proposed solution:
Introduce flee to creep.moveTo OR
make all structures untraversable in the default costmatrix OR
just make the documentation clear on that part.

I have the following code

    //If there is literally no more construction targets, Hide somewhere away from everything
    if (!target) {
        var path = PathFinder.search(creep.pos, creep.room.find(FIND_STRUCTURES).map(s => {return{pos:s.pos, range:5}}) , {flee:true, ignoreRoads: false} ).path
        creep.moveByPath(path)
        creep.room.drawPath(path) // My own function to visualize the path
        return;
    }

I get the following result

Am I doing something wrong? Why is it pathing through solid structures?