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[Wolfrug]

For you math wizards!

Scenario:

A person steps outside a circle, and is subsequently teleported back inside it (activated in a trigger's On Deactivation field, basically). This could be done simply by moving the unit, say, 5 meters in the direction of the centre of the circle (getPos TriggerName). What math wizardy would I need to perform to be able to do this rather simple operation? I suck at math, so all I basically need is the function, explanations will be useless (I bet it involves tan and sin and all those scary buggers).

Tried to search for this, but failed. So thanks!

Wolfrug out.

[laggy]

I suck at math as well  

But, why not run a script on the unit measuring:

Code:

while {true} do
      {
      if (myUnit distance myCenter > 95) then {_spot = getPos myUnit};
      if (myUnit distance myCenter > 100) then {myUnit setPos _spot};
      sleep 1;
      }

Sorry if I got it completely wrong... It is late on a Friday night

I guess that could make the player/unit slowly "crawl" out of the wanted zone, if really persistant.

[JamesF1]

It's too late in the day for me to do math (it doesn't come as naturally to me as I'd like ), but you could make use of CBA and BIS functions thus (if in doubt, leave the real math to people who can do it ):

Code:

_initial = getPosATL player;
_trigger = getPosATL yourTriggerName;
_direction = [_initial, _trigger] call BIS_fnc_relativeDirTo;
_vector = [5, _direction, 0] call CBA_fnc_polar2vect;
_position = [_initial, _vector] call CBA_fnc_vectAdd;
player setPosATL _position;
player setDir _direction;

I've not tested that, but that should take them 5 metres towards the centre.  If not, then please do blame my late night attempts at comprehending questions and providing answers

[Mr.Peanut]

Code:

_r = 5;
_xt = (getPos _trigger) select 0;
_yt = (getPos _trigger) select 1;
_xu = (getPos _unit) select 0;
_yu = (getPos _unit) select 1;
_dx = _xu - _xt;
_dy = _yu - _yt;
_dir = _dy atan2 _dx;
_dx = _dx - _r * cos _dir;
_dy = _dy - _r * sin _dir;
_unit setPos (_xt + _dx, _yt + _dy, 0);

[Wolfrug]

I forgot to say thank you to Mr. Peanut: thank you! That solved it, no problems whatsoever. Now all I'd need would be a command to setdir the player in the exact direction of the centre of the trigger, but that's really a secondary matter after all

Thanks again everyone!

Wolfrug out.

[bedges]

You may find that _dir in Peanut's example above is the angle you seek.