[Dr. Greg House]

This topic comes up once every week for the last two month. Use the search.

[NRG21]

Sorry but i can't find anything, i wouldn't ask if i had found something

[LeGone]

You could create a trigger. Than hook the touch function of that trigger.
Am I going too far, if I would call that the "engine-way" of doing sth like that?

[blaacky]

Originally Posted by NRG21 Thanks blaacky! I don't understand the CreateZonePoints-function (generate 8 zone points from just 2), can you give me an example how to use this with only 2 zone points?

Generally when creating a zone, you add one point that marks one corner of the zone, you go somewhere else and create the second corner of the zone. At that point you only have 2 corners of the whole zone but you need 6 more in order to draw the zone. Those 6 points are created with the CreateZonePoints function.

[friagram]

You can use a minimum xyz and maximum xyz coordinate, translate this to your origin, calculate mins and maxs fro the translated origin, and send that to a trigger. Hook touch thr trigger and done.

[ShufflexDD]

A while ago I did a picture for Minecraft, but it's still easy to understand which 2 coordinates you should choose.
By choosing this 2 coordinates plugin above will automatically select other angles, and will create a zone between them(in this case - a house).

[NRG21]

Originally Posted by blaacky Generally when creating a zone, you add one point that marks one corner of the zone, you go somewhere else and create the second corner of the zone. At that point you only have 2 corners of the whole zone but you need 6 more in order to draw the zone. Those 6 points are created with the CreateZonePoints function.

Yes but i don't understand your code!
The function doesn't return something, so how can i use this to calculate the other points from 2?

[Doodil]

it fills the float array you pass in the parameter with data. It doesn't return anything, but it still changes the values

[blaacky]

PHP Code:

/*
* Generates all 8 points of a zone given just 2 of its points
*/
CreateZonePoints(Float:point[8][3])
{
    for(new i=1; i<7; i++)
    {
        for(new j=0; j<3; j++)
        {
            point[i][j] = point[((i >> (2-j)) & 1) * 7][j];
        }
    }
} 


If I have a global array like Float:g_fZone[8][3] where g_fZone[0] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0} and g_fZone[7] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0}, the g_fZone array can be passed in the CreateZonePoints parameter and every point from 1-6 in the g_fZone array will be given their correct coordinates just by doing the function CreateZonePoints(g_fZone);

[friagram]

You dont need 8 points, you need 2. Send them to a trigger, or just do basic subtraction to see if the origin of the entity you are tracking lies between them.