#(talfein) Grab the location of a teleporting display entity.

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empty sorrel
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Hello again everyone, working off another post to do a similar thing. I'm currently creating a projectile for my magic system by spawning a display entity and then upon a suggestion of a helper, teleporting it with a teleport_duration adjustment. It works wonderfully and looks great, however the issue is I wanted to upgrade my Particle script block to only play the particle exactly where the projectile was currently. The problem was anytime I tried to use the Display Entity's location it would only output the Ending location where it was being teleported. I wanted to cut down on the possible lag since I have the particle and targeting checking every 0.5 between the start point and end point and I know that could possibly be laggy running so often depending on the range of the spell.

Here's the entire script: https://paste.denizenscript.com/View/125656

As always, if it's just not feasible please let me know as this will probably take my whole night working on it otherwise.

PS. I will happily take recommendations to fixing the particle system or targeting itself as I want to change that up as soon as possible since it's supposed to be modular.

Projectile Script | Paste #125656 | Denizen Pastebin

Content of Denizen Script Paste #125656: Projectile Script... pasted 2024/08/16 22:43:04 UTC-07:00, Paste length: 1313 characters across 30 lines, Content: Runestone_Projectile_Task: type: task

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(talfein) Grab the location of a teleporting display entity.

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novel turtle
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you'll have to math it out yourself

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you have point a and point b, and you have the time it takes to get across

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assuming constant speed, no change in direction and zero acceleration, congrats you have all you need to find out where, using only when as input

empty sorrel
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Oooh, math. Pain

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I'll prob just stick with what I have for now then revamp it later. The good ol procrastination. I was given a timeframe of 2 months by the build team so I have plenty of time lol.

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I was just hoping there was an easy tag to grab it while it was teleporting, but I assume it actually does instantly teleport on the backend.

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novel turtle
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in fact just wrote it in little under 20 minutes

novel turtle
novel turtle
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it's got some redundancy, but it's for the sake of readability and understandability

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if it aint work tell me and i shall bear the shame

empty sorrel
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Haha, yeah reading this script while drunk really doesn't help trying to understand math. But I relatively get it. Thank you greatly for the comments. I'll take a look at this when I'm not giving my liver a stab. (I'm not an alcoholic, just very light weight)

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empty sorrel
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Yeah I sadly don't have the time to work on projectiles anymore, stuff is actually ramping up and I have a new project, a regenerating dungeon schematic.