dist calculations

[Eglin]

It is usually better to calculate distance squared, since you eliminate the root op.

Originally Posted by Scorpious2k

Took a little time to look at the dist calcs... in Mob::Dist it reads

float Mob::Dist(const Mob &other) {
    double xDiff = other.x_pos - x_pos; 	
     double yDiff = other.y_pos - y_pos; 	
     double zDiff = other.z_pos - z_pos;
     return sqrt( (xDiff * xDiff) 
 	           + (yDiff * yDiff)
                     + (zDiff * zDiff) ); 
}

Which looks about as efficient as you can get without going to assembler... but if you went to that level it might look like
...<snip>...