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[The Cubbies]

I have a function that has the bot warp a player to a random spot on the map. As I have it now, the spot it chooses could have a tile on it. I want to avoid these areas. Is there a way to determine before warping if that spot has a tile? I looked though the map.cpp but couldn't really find what I was looking for. (I'm using Merv).

[D1st0rt]

Code: Show/Hide if(map[getLinear(x, y)] == vieNoTile) //from the MapTileFormat enum defined in map.h

should do the trick
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Ships are not 16x16, so you need to actually check a box worth around the location you want to warp to, one extra tile in all 8 directions.

Code: Show/Hide x x x x S x x x x

[The Cubbies]

I had already tried Distort's method before posting and I got this error:

spawn.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "unsigned long __cdecl getLinear(unsigned long,unsigned long)" (?getLinear@@YAKKK@Z)

I was confused by it, so I posted this topic. I just realized that I needed to #include "..\map.cpp" Sorry for the annoyance.

[Bak]

Lemme try this...

Code: Show/Hide const int mapSize = 1024; const int clearTiles[] = {   0 /* blank */,                      170 /* flag */,                      171 /* safe zone */,                      172 /* soccer goal */,                      173, 174, 175 /* fly over */,                      176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184 /* fly under opaque */,                      185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190 /* fly under transparent */ }; int xTile, yTile; for(bool foundGoodTile = false; !foundGoodTile;) {    // pick a random tile not on the border    xTile = 1 + rand() % (mapSize - 2);    yTile = 1 + rand() % (mapSize - 2);        // check if there's any walls near it    for (int dy = -1; dy <= 1; ++dy) for (int dx = -1; dx <= 1; ++dx)    {       int curXTile = xTile + dx;       int curYTile = yTile + dy;       int curIndex = curXTile + mapSize * curYTile;       bool isClear = false;       foundGoodTile = true; // this spot is good unless we prove otherwise              for (unsigned int c = 0; c < sizeof(clearTiles) / sizeof(clearTiles[0]); ++c)       {          if (clearTiles[c] == map[curIndex])          {             isClear = true;             break;          }       }              if (!isClear) // this spot is no good, jump out of both for loops and try a new spot       {          foundGoodTile = false;          goto end_checking_walls;       }    }        end_checking_walls: ; } sendPrivate(p, "*warpto " + (String)xTile + " " + (String)yTile);

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