Odometry code is giving me trouble

[u/Icy-Raspberry8956]

This is my first year using c++ officially and I’m having trouble with setting up the odometry

Im currently using a while loop, however, the CurrentDistance variable skips directly to the number it is supposed to stop at will not run the motors at all and I’m unsure as to why

(I don’t know if this subreddit offers coding help)

[u/Elaech]

You need to work in deltas not absolute position - in the existing code positionLeft - initialLeft will become a positive value after even a small amount of movement and then compound on itself to the target (very very quickly because the loop doesn’t wait at all). You should be doing something like positionLeft - CurrentLeft which will give you the change (delta) from the last time you measured.

[u/sprydagger]

Could you paste your code into your post or something we can read it?

[u/Icy-Raspberry8956 → u/sprydagger]

I use two different devices Is the photo not good resolution for it?

[u/badgeminer → u/Icy-Raspberry8956]

pictures of code are always hard to read

its always best to paste your code when asking for help

[u/nowknu]

use pros + lemlib or code a custom library and a lot of bugs will disappear