Kwakstur
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I've been doing a lot of messing around with orientation and have found some nice tricks you may find useful, so here's a few things you can do to _O and _MyO.

Here's the values of _O based on facing.

   _O
 0  1  2
 3  4  5
 6  7  8
 Facing

This also matches the values for script commands that can use _MyScript vars to change orientation, so you can use _O as a parameter. The central number, 4, is Central facing, and will be omitted from all future matrices because these functions are meant for things that have a direction.

N or S, E or W?
Let's split the orientation "vector" into its X and Y components.
Dividing your oriention by 3 gives a number according to vertical facing.
Modulating your orientation by 3 gives a number according to horizontal facing.
Subtracting 1 from these yields more useful values(-1,0,1 instead of 0,1,2).

(_O%3) - 1    (_O/3) - 1
 -1  0  1      -1 -1 -1
 -1     1       0     0
 -1  0  1       1  1  1
X-Component   Y-Component

You can use these to find the tile in front of you (your sword's location), for instance.

The other way
Here's something simple to give the opposite direction (NW to SE): Subtract it from 8. Useful for if you're scripting a Slayer, or if you want a Game Effect to spew backwards.

 8 - _O
 8  7  6
 5     3
 2  1  0
 Reverse

There are also ways just to mirror your facing vertically or horizontally; make NE become NW, for instance. Here's how: E and W values differ by 2. N and S values differ by 6. We can tell the game to add or subtract these numbers to find the related directions.
To tell the game whether to add, subtract, or ignore the 2 or 6, we multiply it by the X or Y component.

_O-(2*((_O%3)-1))   _O-(6*((_O/3)-1))
     2  1  0             6  7  8
     5     3             3     5
     8  7  6             0  1  2
     Flip X              Flip Y

Such a function may see some use in a project similar to Sideo RPG:

Diagonal or Orthogonal?
Here's something else you might find useful.

 _O % 2
 0  1  0
 1     1
 0  1  0
Orthogonal

That's all I have. I'm currently trying to see if I can find an algorithm for directions to the side (examples: N would have W and E, SW would have NW and SE, etc.). My current one has separate formulae for orthogonal and diagonal, and I want just one formula.
If I get any luck, I'll share it.

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[Last edited by Kwakstur at 12-31-2008 03:24 AM]

Kwakstur
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Oh, looking at the Architechopedia shows that Build/Wait for item Force Arrow and Tunnel don't follow this pattern. Force arrows follow the order that graphic tiles do (starting at N and going CW). Tunnels are just wierd.

 Arrows    Tunnels       _O
19 12 13      47       1  2  3
18    14   64    63    3     5
17 16 15      48       6  7  8

I can't give a simple single-line formula for either of them, but here's the shortest algorithms I can come up with, as well as some complicated 1-line iterations of them. I'll update them when I come up with better ones.

Until I come up with really good ones, you may find it easier to just simply code for each direction. But I myself prefer algorithms like this (especially the 1-line formulae) because I always think it's deceiving when I have a 32-line code block to accomplish a small task.

This code is Ctrl+B-friendly.

Convert _O to ArrowO

Convert _O to TunnelO:
Set _MyScriptF to ArrowO or TunnelO when you Build or Wait for Item.

In case anyone wants to know, DROD does follow order of operations. So some of my formulae in this and the previous post can have a few parentheses taken away, but I don't really feel like doing that now (because then I have to make a new hold to test it out to make sure I can still paste it with Ctrl+Shift+B).

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[Last edited by Kwakstur at 12-31-2008 08:52 PM]