Positioning Help

[DingoLingo]

Just need a bit of help with the positioning of things I'm spawning from my component.

I've had the idea to try making some kind of portable base, something the player can carry around and take through shards.
Currently, I just search for entities, store them in a table, and remove them from the world.

But when I spawn them back into the world, I can't figure out how to keep their spacing at the new location. So I just dump them into a single spot at the moment. I'm not really any good at math, so if anyone can help with that, it would be amazing!

PocketInterior:

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function PocketInterior:Recreate_Test()
	if next(self.interior_storage) ~= nil then		
	
		--Currently the component owner. Swap this for a valid interior location eventually.
		local target_x,target_y,target_z = self.inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
	
		for i, v in ipairs(self.interior_storage) do
			--==Spawn==--
			local spawned_object =  SpawnSaveRecord(v)

			--==Reposition==--
			local x,y,z = spawned_object.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
		
			--Math... Need to relocate to our target position, WITHOUT messing up our spawned_object'a spacing.
			x = x
			y = y
			z = z

			--Just dump all our stuff into a our target spot for now. Fix later.
			spawned_object.Transform:SetPosition(target_x, target_y, target_x)
			
			--==Print New Location==--
			print("Spawned: -"..v.prefab.."- at location : X:"..target_x.." Y:"..target_y.." Z:"..target_z)
			
		end
	else
		print("We don't have anything to make our rebuild our interior!")
	end
end

 

 

[_zwb]

Just save the relative position of objects to the Pocket Interior thing

[DingoLingo]

Alright. How though?

I've tried making the spawned objects position relative to 0,0,0 by subtracting the component owner's position from the spawned objects, then adding the owner's position again to get the actual target position. But that wildly changes if I move around while carrying the item with my PocketInterior component.

 

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function PocketInterior:Recreate_Test() --Cleaned it up a bit.
	if next(self.interior_storage) ~= nil then		
	
		--Currently the component owner. Swap this for a valid interior location eventually.	
		local target_pos = Vector3(self.inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
		print(target_pos)
	
		for i, v in ipairs(self.interior_storage) do
			--==Spawn==--
			local spawned_object = SpawnSaveRecord(v)

			--==Reposition==--
			local object_pos = Vector3(spawned_object.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
			
			local new_x = object_pos.x - target_pos.x
			local new_z = object_pos.z - target_pos.z
			
			spawned_object.Transform:SetPosition(new_x, object_pos.y, new_z)
			
			--==Print New Location==--
			print("Spawned: -"..v.prefab.."- at location : X:"..new_x.." Y:"..target_pos.y.." Z:"..new_z)
			
		end
	else
		print("We don't have anything to make our rebuild our interior!")
	end
end

 

 

Edited June 10, 2024 by DingoLingo
Forgot to add snippet.

[_zwb]

32 minutes ago, DingoLingo said:

How though?

I don't know without the full code.

[DingoLingo]

Oh, right! My bad.

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local PocketInterior = Class(function(self, inst)
	self.inst = inst
	self.interior_storage = {}
end)


--===========================--
--==oO REMOVE / RECREATE Oo==--
--===========================--

function PocketInterior:Remove_Test()
	--==Clear Interior Storage==--
	print("Forgetting current Interior...")
	self.interior_storage = {}
	
	--==Search for things to store==--
	--Currently the component owner. Swap this for a valid interior location eventually.
	local x,y,z = self.inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
	
	local ents = TheSim:FindEntities(x, y, z, 20, nil, { "player", "INLIMBO", "FX", "pocketinterior_item" })
    for k,v in pairs(ents) do
        if v then
			--==Save and Remove==--
			local stored_object = v:GetSaveRecord()
			table.insert(self.interior_storage, stored_object)
			v:Remove()
        end
    end
end

function PocketInterior:Recreate_Test()
	if next(self.interior_storage) ~= nil then		
	
		--Currently the component owner. Swap this for a valid interior location eventually.	
		local target_pos = Vector3(self.inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
		print(target_pos)
	
		for i, v in ipairs(self.interior_storage) do
		
			--==Spawn==--
			local spawned_object = SpawnSaveRecord(v)

			--==Reposition==--
			local object_pos = Vector3(spawned_object.Transform:GetWorldPosition())
			
			local new_x = object_pos.x - target_pos.x
			local new_z = object_pos.z - target_pos.z
			
			spawned_object.Transform:SetPosition(new_x, object_pos.y, new_z)
			
			--==Print New Location==--
			print("Spawned: -"..v.prefab.."- at location : X:"..new_x.." Y:"..target_pos.y.." Z:"..new_z)
			
		end
	else
		print("We don't have anything to make our rebuild our interior!")
	end
end



--=====================--
--==oO SAVE / LOAD Oo==--
--=====================--
function PocketInterior:OnSave()
    return
    {
        interior_storage = self.interior_storage,
    }
end

function PocketInterior:OnLoad(data)
	if data ~= nil then	
		self.interior_storage = data.interior_storage
	end
end

return PocketInterior

 

 

[_zwb]

--==Save and Remove==--
local stored_object = v:GetSaveRecord()
-- stored_object.x/y/z is from v.Transform
stored_object.relative_x = stored_object.x - x
stored_object.relative_y = (stored_object.y or 0) - y
stored_object.relative_z = stored_object.z - z
table.insert(self.interior_storage, stored_object)
v:Remove()


--==Spawn==--
local spawned_object = SpawnSaveRecord(v)

--==Reposition==--
local relative_x = v.relative_x
local relative_y = v.relative_y
local relative_z = v.relative_z

spawned_object.Transform:SetPosition(relative_x + target_pos.x, relative_y + target_pos.y, relative_z + target_pos.z)

 

Edited June 10, 2024 by _zwb