Get actor by location?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I have this function generating tiles. Is there any quick way to get actor by entering its location. Later I will assign variable to location which will be obtained by some math.

I know how to to access location from array by element. But its still actor to location.

I want location to actor.

I want to assign some values to my tiles and these values will be position dependent rather than my sprite index.

So do we have such option?

Or Do I have to create a function for that ? If yes then

what is best way to do it (less looping kind) as you can see my sprites are in array ?

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Are you expecting to enter the exact actor location, or a rough location?

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I want location to actor.

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Looking at this makes me wonder how annoying it would be to use. At least it’s blazing fast!

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Yes Maybe. I will round the values somehow obtained from math so the location will be exact.

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Thanks I never knew we could define such variables. I will try it

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I want location to actor

Circling back to the other thread where I was so insistent on knowing the ID method, it now turns out it was simply a location. I wouldn’t use a regular vector for this as float components will ruin it; but this could potentially work:

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Never used it like this, worth testing out, though.

Good luck!

Still believe it’d be much easier (and reliable!) with an ID, tag, enumeration… any other method, really.

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I haven’t used enumeration before. I will try all methods though as I still don’t have clear idea about what I am achieving here. Its more of a exploring

Thanks for this answer.