Hi all,
I’ve never posted on here before, so please bear with me. I’m not entirely sure how well I can explain my problem, but I’ll try and hopefully can get something that makes sense to people.
I have an actor that follows the player around with holds a 2d array of cubes, each of these cubes holds some detail about the area it resides in. Due to the world size I can’t have a cube for every spot of the map so it’s a limited size (I’ll do a mock up below).
So the cubes will sit like this below (in reality I currently have it at 16x16, but 5x5 will be fine for my explaination). (The P is the player)
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When the player moves to the left by the size of a full cube it would sit like this:
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But I have the system follow the player - which is great! However all of the data in the cubes also follows the player at this point and that’s what I’m looking to change.
So if I have this set up:
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] ][P] ] ]
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And then I move to the left and it adjusts I will get this still:
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] ][P] ] ]
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Whereas what I actually want to occur is:
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I thought about moving the rows/columns of the array based on the movement - but if I do that it then jumbles up the array significantly and I can’t get my head around the process of re-sorting it all. I’m struggling to find anything out there on this too - as I don’t really know the terminology besides it being a 2d array.
Hopefully the diagrams explain it better than words could - any input/direction is greatly appreciated and apologies if it’s really obvious!
Cheers.