Something wrong with my update function?

Scripting Issues
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So I have a function to move my zombies (about 11 at first):

def update_zombie(self, task):
        
        for i in self.zombie:


            zdummy = self.zdummy[i.getPythonTag("ZDummy")]
            zdummy.setPos(self.zombie[i.getPythonTag("ZDummy")].getPos())
            zdummy.lookAt(self.cam)
            zdummy.setH(zdummy.getH()-180)

            if i.getPythonTag("justHit") == False and i.getPythonTag("next2Protag") == False:
                i.setH(zdummy.getH())
                i.setY(i, -.2)
            if i.getPythonTag("next2Protag") == True and i.getPythonTag("justHit") == False:
                i.setPythonTag("justHit", True)
                self.playerHP = ((self.playerHP)-10)
                i.setPythonTag("justHit", True)
                self.taskMgr.doMethodLater(.5, self.resetZombieHit, "reset zombie hit")
            
        return task.cont

I have it added to task manager. self.zombie is a list of zombies. I use zdummy to make sure zombies don’t look up or down. My zombies aren’t moving though. What’s wrong?

2

Hmm… Have you checked the “justHit” and “next2Protag” tags? Perhaps those aren’t being set properly?

Another thing that occurs to me is that you’re not accounting for the time between updates: you’re moving the zombies by -0.2 no matter how quickly the task is running. You might want to get the time between updates (I think that the global clock provides this - get the global clock object via “getGlobalClock()” and get the time between frames via “.getDt()”; see here and here for more) and multiply your movement speed by that; since said time between updates is likely to be very small, you may also want to increase the movement speed.