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SPON_directionName (ACCEPTED)

« on: 16 Oct 2007, 20:38:21 »

SPON_directionName v0.1.0
- Released: 2007-10-16
- SQF function in a single file
- Includes demo mission

Works out the name (e.g. "North North-West") or abbreviated name (e.g. "NNW") of a compass direction given a value in degrees (clockwise from North, as returned from getDir) or a vector (as returned from vectorDir, wind or weaponDirection). The user can specify how many possible directions to take the names from: 4 (N, E, W, S), 8 (adding NE, etc), 16 (adding NNE, etc) or 32 (adding NEbE, etc).

Credits
Based on a small part of a script by [seven]

ChangeLog
v0.1.1 - Correctly accepts degree values outside range of 0-359.
v0.1.0 - First release at OFPEC.

SPON_directionName_v0-1-1.zip (8.82 KB - downloaded 218 times.)
« Last Edit: 27 Oct 2007, 15:01:42 by Spooner »	Logged

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Re: SPON_directionName (READY)

« Reply #1 on: 16 Oct 2007, 22:15:07 »

Mandoble pointed out that the function should accept angles outside of the range 0-359. I'll fix that in the next version.

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Updated with the suggested fix.