Placing a brick directly atop another brick server-sided.

[otto-san]

I'm no good at vector math, how would I do this?

ie. put a 1x1x1 brick atop a x4 cube

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[phflack]

randomly on top, or where specificaly?

[otto-san]

randomly on top, or where specificaly?

Exactly atop the brick as exactly as possible aligning to the grid.

Disregard the example in the OP and let's pretend it's a x4 cube atop another x4 cube.

[phflack]

Exactly atop the brick as exactly as possible aligning to the grid.

Disregard the example in the OP and let's pretend it's a x4 cube atop another x4 cube.

oh, that's better
i just don't remember how to though

[Headcrab Zombie]

I'm not sure exactly what your problem is, but I'm guessing it has to do with the brick not always being in the correct place on the Z axis with different height bricks?

[phflack]

i think he wants to find the coordinates of the first brick, then add to the Z to build on top

[Headcrab Zombie]

I had this problem with the bricktext event, I needed the StaticShape to always be a little bit above the top of the brick
Here's what I set for position inside the 'new StaticShape...' :

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position = vectorAdd(%this.getPosition(),"0 0" SPC %this.getDatablock().brickSizeZ/9 + "0.166");
Maybe that, minus the '+ "0.166"' with %this being the brick your building on top of?

[otto-san]

That helps a lot, it was exactly what I was looking for, thanks!