Dynamic Coordinates issue

[Zibele 18]

Hey guys,i was writing a script on a minigame and each time i enter an instance of this minigame the coordinates of the specific spot within the instance would change?Could someone help me on how i would go about pathing dynamic coordinates?

[Im A Baller 348]

you need to find a specific entity on the island that you can relate everything to, in terms of position. pest control had the same issue, and that was how i made a functioning script for it.

[rokaHakor 171]

I think Player owned Houses have the same issue. Not sure how the construction and teletab scripts work around this.

[Zibele 18]

How would i relate the entity in terms of position if coordinates keep changing?

[Im A Baller 348]

How would i relate the entity in terms of position if coordinates keep changing?

 

you get the entity's position when you first enter the instance, and instead of using direct tile numbers, shift your tiles and areas proportionally to the entity's position

 

e.g. 

walk(entity.getX() - 10, entity.getY() + 5, 0) //very basic example

[Zibele 18]

Interesting,is there no other way?

[Im A Baller 348]

Interesting,is there no other way

thats probably the simplest way. it's not that difficult to do (??)

[Zibele 18]

The entities are also dynamic,and i need to create a area within the instance to solve the instance,so yeah that probably wont be enough,but i will figure it out.

[Dreamlicker 750]

If you tell us what area you're working with, we can help more. I'm sure there's an entity in that area whose position doesn't change relative to other entities.

[Notorious 342]

Interesting,is there no other way?

 

 

There is a few ways you can do it, but as @Im A Baller was saying, using a GameObject as reference and offsetting your positions from that object would probably be easiest. If you know a bit of programming and math, you could create your own local pathfinder using the loaded tile region. But it's much more work than simply offsetting them.