The Tamian Coordinate System | Difficulty: 🟨 (Version 2.0)

[gimmaster12345]

I tried that, nothing happened.

[ClicClac]

Well, give me about two hours. I have class, the I can look at this.

[Zane7655]

Did this for a map I’m working on but used seeds to keep track of what square your on to reduce the amount of block code I would need so I could save space.

[Dragontamer]

That’s really smart! I didn’t think of doing that.
But I see a few drawbacks…

1. You only have as many spots as you do (1/2 * numberOfSeeds)^2 [assuming its a square].
2. You’d need a lot of item managers to stop the constant item notifications.

[Zane7655]

I just used the same colored seed and granted the player different amounts of seeds. The item manager would then be able to update a property - [Position]

Note: It’s a 9x9 grid. It still takes up a good mount of space though but I need all the space I can get!

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Little messy though

[getrithekd]

I improved this to not use inventory item managers or blocks

Improved Version of Tamian Coordinate System

So we have a coordinate system. It’s fine, but it uses way too many blocks, like if you have an m by n rectangle, it will use 700*(m+n) memory! So this guide will NOT use blocks but will rather use the beloved PCPs to overcome this issue. Here is the coordinate system I referred to: Zones Make all the zones in that guide. Now, make them all broadcast on “[axis letter][number]”. Make a counter for each zone. Make the most be for the x zones edit the x coordinate property, and the ones for th…

[Zane7655]

Smart! Will keep this in mind if I ever need to make one again

[getrithekd]

Oh I also made a rookie mistake in this

@getrithekd

first increment on its zone’s channel, and then decrease on the same channel

you need it to increase, and make the target one more than it’s default and then have that reset the counter.

[Dragontamer]

This is the perfect kind of mess. You can’t change my mind that this is not the perfect clutter.

[Zane7655]

Beautiful isn’t it?

[BobTheGOD]

Man this guide is awsome, BUMP

[AllFather_ofDeath]

@Dragontamer this is a wonderful guide but could you make one that has a way point showing your last location on the grid?

[Dragontamer]

That’s an interesting idea! I think what I would do is have a property that remembers your last position, and then when you move, it uses concatenation to specify a singular waypoint.
I could just be spouting gibberish, but I think this would work.

[Here_to_help]

Can’t you just use the waypoint setting for that?
If, however, you mean that your last location somewhere, say, in a grid, but you teleported out, but you had a waypoint tracking your last location in a specific place, you could just cover the map in waypoints, using the ‘track where device is’ and when it updates it activates the waypoint that is associated with that, and deactivates all others, so it keeps on rendering where you are.
Also probably spouting gibberish.

[ClicClac]

This would be an interesting addition to the system, as the waypoint would always be one square away from the player at all times, like the world’s most memory inefficient trail.

[Dragontamer]

Oh yeah! You could make it work like a trail.

[Zvstheworld]

The new coordinate device makes this guide irrelevant now

[Dragontamer]

I know. That’s why I haven’t been bumping this and instead letting it drift into the realm of forgotten guides.

[AllFather_ofDeath]

but you could make a guide on my question from earlier

The Tamian Coordinate System | Difficulty: (Version 2.0)

@Dragontamer this is a wonderful guide but could you make one that has a way point showing your last location on the grid?

[teapot]

Not absolutely. The coordinate system is still more memory efficient in less precise areas, for example, which section the player is at on the map rather than tile to tile measurements.