Function to determine direction player facing

[darerd]

I need a function to figure out whether a player is facing north, east, south or west and then return 0, 1, 2 or 3. Also, if you could add in what this would be co-ordinate wise, that would be helpful too. Thanks

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[Port]

I am not that good at trigonometry and thus can't help you find the current direction, but I could reference what the different direction rotations are.

0		North				1 0 0 0
1		East				0 0 1 90
2		South				0 0 1 180
3		West				0 0 -1 90

[Nexus]

this is from Client_BuildBot, so it is client sided code

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function getplayerdirection()
{
if(isObject(%p = serverconnection.getcontrolobject()))
{
%va = getword(%p.getforwardvector(),0);
%vb = getword(%p.getforwardvector(),1);

if(mabs(%va) > mabs(%vb))
{
if(%va > 0)
return 0;
else
return 2;
}
else
{
if(%vb > 0)
return 1;
else
return 3;
}
}
else
return 4;
}
0 = east