/// <summary>
///This function is called to find a tower to send the troops
/// </summary>
public TowerBehavior FindTowerToSendTroops(AIBehavior attackingAI)
{
//gives me a dictionary with numUnits associated with their towers lowest num being at the 0 element
List <List <TowerBehavior> > UnitList = attackingAI.GetUnitPriority();
//gives me a dictionary with distance associated with the tower from the origin. smallest distance is the zero element
List <List <TowerBehavior> > DistanceList = attackingAI.GetDistancePriority();
//create a final list that holds a tower and it's total score from both dictionaries
Dictionary <TowerBehavior, int> finalDict = new Dictionary <TowerBehavior, int>();
//this variable is used for the value that we will give each tower
//we put it outside the foreach loop so that towers in the same
//list are given the same value
int counter = 0;
//go through each list in the unit dictionary
foreach (List <TowerBehavior> list in UnitList)
{
//go through each tower through each list
foreach (TowerBehavior tower in list)
{
//add that tower the the final dictionary with its value
finalDict.Add(tower, counter);
}
//increment counter after going through the list
counter++;
}
//reset the counter
counter = 0;
//go through each list in the distance dictionary
foreach (List <TowerBehavior> list in DistanceList)
{
//go through each tower in each list
foreach (TowerBehavior tower in list)
{
//if the final dictionary already contains the tower
if (finalDict.ContainsKey(tower))
{
//add the new counter to the final value
finalDict[tower] += (counter);
}
//if not, then something is wrong
else
{
#if Unity_Editor
Debug.LogError("DICTIONARY DOESN'T CONTAIN TOWER ALREADY,RETURNING NULL");
#endif
return(null);
}
}
//increment the counter
counter++;
}
//send the dictionary to the function so that the tower can actually be chosen
return(FindTowerToAttack(finalDict));
}