Safepos Z min max

[thomasbkdk]

Can someone tell me if this coding line means a position minimum 6km from player ship plus max 2km on the z axis?

<position object="player.ship" z="6km" max="2km"/>

If not, how do i add some randomness into the position on the z axis?
How would it look if it had to be minimum 6km from playership but maximum 8km on the Z axis?

[euclid]

Usually I use create_position as you can set individual (also random) coordinates. For example:

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<create_position name="$pos" space="player.sector" x="[$xmin $xmax].random" y="[$ymin $ymax].random" z="[$zmin $zmax].random"/>

and after that:

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 <position value="$pos"/>

If you want the x and y positions to be the player's ship then use player.ship.position for the corresponding values or set the player's ship as object in the position command.

Cheers Euclid

[thomasbkdk]

I see 'radius' used in some coding.

will something like this work
<position object="player.ship" radius="6km" />

or
<create_position name="$pos" space="player.ship" radius="[3km 5km].random"/>
or just
<create_position name="$pos" space="player.ship" radius="5km"/>

[j.harshaw]

min/max in this context (as well as get_safepos and create_position) adds a random offset to the defined position.

<position object="player.ship" z="6km" max="2km"/>

Not sure what max does by itself (day is done and i'm really trying to not crack open code) but if you also specified min, it would be some random offset in a random direction between min and 2km away from 6km in front of player.ship.

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ship------
           \
            \
            pos