//Determine who the next active player is, and return the associated state.
BalloonPopGameStates DetermineNextActivePlayer(int currentPlayerPosition)
{
//Create the return value. Assigns a value to prevent compiler errors.
BalloonPopGameStates nextActivePlayer = BalloonPopGameStates.PlayerTurn;
//To handle looping around, we'll use a bool to determine if we need to loop around at all.
bool hasDeterminedNextPlayer = false;
//Create the int to hold the next player's position.
int nextPlayerPosition = 0;
//If this is the last player, there's no one ahead to look at.
if (currentPlayerPosition != 3)
{
//Check if the players ahead of the current player are active.
for (int i = currentPlayerPosition + 1; i < 4; i++)
{
if (activePlayers[i] == true)
{
//This player is active. Set the player position, set the determination bool to true, and break out of the loop.
nextPlayerPosition = i;
hasDeterminedNextPlayer = true;
break;
}
}
}
//Next, handle the players behind the current player, if none ahead were active.
if (!hasDeterminedNextPlayer)
{
for (int i = 0; i < currentPlayerPosition; i++)
{
if (activePlayers[i] == true)
{
//This player is active. Set the player position, and break out of the loop.
nextPlayerPosition = i;
break;
}
}
}
//By this point, we know the next active player by the position we have.
switch (nextPlayerPosition)
{
case 0:
nextActivePlayer = BalloonPopGameStates.PlayerTurn;
Debug.Log("Player turn.");
break;
case 1:
nextActivePlayer = BalloonPopGameStates.AI1Turn;
Debug.Log("AI 1 turn.");
break;
case 2:
nextActivePlayer = BalloonPopGameStates.AI2Turn;
Debug.Log("AI 2 turn.");
break;
case 3:
nextActivePlayer = BalloonPopGameStates.AI3Turn;
Debug.Log("AI 3 turn.");
break;
default:
Debug.Log("DetermineNextActivePlayer returned a non-existent player.");
break;
}
//Return the proper game state.
return(nextActivePlayer);
}
