The act method is for what you want the actor to do between each frame of the animation. You will need to employ some if statements to determine what action should be done at any point in the animation.

Thanks for the reply danpost. I know this isn't correct as I keep getting a syntax error but would it be something like this; or Then continue that for every movement?

Well ... there is no getLocation method in the Actor class. Otherwise, you would be on the right track. Helpful hints: (1) you can combine conditions within a single if conditional using conditional operators (middle of page) ; (2) you could get the existence of leaves in the world or even get a count of how many there are; furthermore you can get references to them and get their location coordinates; You may not be able to make use of (2) as I do not know what methods you may be restricted to (I am thinking your Ladybug class consists of two classes extending from Actor -- one provided with methods you can use and the one in which you add code into the act method). You may even have some extra fields that I am not aware of in that intermediate class. You could use one if statement for each line of code; however, you should try to find ways to reduce the amount of code that would produce.

I had a play around for a while but couldn't quite grasp it yet. I still don't know enough to understand it. I'll try it again over the next few weeks. Thanks again.

As a starter, you could use: Hopefully, you can make use of getRotation (that is, the direction the actor is facing) as part of the condition for turning.

If you really only want to see the movement going on, you can put "Greenfoot.delay(10);" after each statement and adjust the number inside to your favour. However, this is a pretty lazy and bad way to achive this, and you should ONLY use it for stuff that does not run while the simulation, because this will pause everything and will stop other things from doing stuff, too.

A more complex but later on more conveniant way of doing this would be like this: This way of doing it will move the object one tile per frame. You can easily add another option by adding a "case" the same way that they are right now and add the number you chose into the array at the position you want.

I do not think this is basic enough for a beginner (using arrays and switch statements). This will also prevent the user from stopping the scenario before the ladybug reaches its final location That is, if using delay and Pause is clicked on, the act method will complete, skipping the delays (which is probably an unwanted behavior).

I know it's not the easiest thing. Arrays are pretty basic though. Also, I think it is better to show straight away that you should not hard-code stuff like this.

Its like pushing trig on someone who barely knows geometry; or calculus on someone who barely knows algebra. I am just saying -- take it easy, man. The code you have given IS a hard-coding; just in a more advanced style.