Moving Waypoints (Research?)

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First of all, I’m scared to add tags. Maybe we should add a rule to BH’s additional rules topic saying, “Have regulars add tags to your topic for you.” Idk.
Anyway, I was thinking we could use the coordinate system to move the waypoint, because the waypoint stands at a coordinate and measures the distance between you and it, right? What if we used the coordinate device’s blocks to possibly move where the waypoint points you.

Crazy idea, I know. I was thinking we could make pings like you do in Roblox Bedwars. Anybody play that?

Questions or answers welcome!

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Ok, first of all, does the waypoint already do this? Doesn’t it already automatically move to point at a player?

Second, explain how a ping works in Roblox Bedwars, because not everyone plays it.

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This part is confusing. What do you mean? What’s doing the moving?

It does, right?
So whatever you’re doing, yeah, you can use a repeater trigger clock to update the position. That’d work.

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What do you mean, “move” the player to “where the waypoint points you”? Are you talking about restricting the player’s movement in 1 direction or teleportation?

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  1. The waypoint can move when locked on players, yes, but I want to know if we can move it on its own.

  2. A ping in Roblox Bedwars works with a keybind, or in this case, an overlay. It’s like an arrow, flying to the closest wall in its direction and saying, “HEY, GO HERE!”

Uh-oh, my auto-translate extension didn’t work. I meant move the waypoint where you want it to go.

Pings work globally, by the way.

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Yea I’m a little confused.

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Oh, so like using the waypoint as an animation to direct the player somewhere? That’s… a really interesting idea. But… how do you move the waypoint… isn’t it attached to either a point or a player?

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The only way the waypoint could possibly move without player movement/action is if it is linked to a ball and a sentry somehow shoots the ball.

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Can’t you put the ball nearly in front of the sentry but when it’s like pointing at you it shoots the ball?

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You could use zones that detect where the player is and then activate/deactivate waypoints into different places

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If we could move past the border, maybe we could exploit the game’s code[1] to move it using blocks or something.

  1. not going into inspect ↩︎

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Could you expand on that idea? I like it very much.

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All devices fail past the border if they don’t follow the center rule, and the ball requires weird buggy hitboxes to force it out with barriers.

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AUGH! I worded it wrong again.
If we achieved moving past the border, then maybe we could achieve this, too.

I worded it wrong, could you read this post?

EDIT: Need to eat.

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I don’t see how moving past the border will change anything. The properties past the border are relatively the same besides devices being forced the follow the center rule.

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I suppose but what will moving pass the border achive for this?

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A ping is easy, even possible with the keybind. Use an overlay to broadcast on a waypoint, which deactivates after a few seconds.

Want a keybinding? A little more difficult, but possible.

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We’d need to make it so that the waypoint can move anywhere in the 600x600 grid, though.

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No LIfe!

Anyways, this seems to be a cool idea.
You just got me inspired with something…

Any waays, what if you turn off a waypoint, then turn on an identical waypoitn somewhere else

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Well, I’m giving you one solution here.

I don’t think it’s possible any other way at the moment, though.