I'm beat, and I'm lazy. I've spent far too long trying to code A*, and I've simply failed, not on the A* part, just coding it, I understand the theory and heuristics, but the code keeps bugging me into depression. I'm making a request like this, except for blitz3d, and I'm sure others could benefit from it. I need something simple and straight to the point, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be able to be used like:
CreateGrid(width, height)
path = FindPath(startx, starty, desinationx, destinationy, diagonal=true)
this way, "path" is a string consisting of numbers in a row, each number resembling a direction to go (1 - up, 2 - down, 3 - left, 4 - right, 5 - diagnal right up, etc.). Something this simple should be able to be used both in 2d and 3d, and be able to be used for pretty much any 2D grid pathfinding issue a blitzer is facing. I found something like this, except it was WAY too slow. Any contributions are greatly appreciated by myself and other lazy bump-on-a-log's like me.
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