(JustinS) Bed direction to vector

[misty bone]

I'm trying to make NPCs seem like they're sleeping in bed, but I have some problems with a bed's direction.
See, the locationtag.direction does not work on beds. It's always south. To get the direction, I need to use locationtag.material.direction, which will return NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, or WEST. Now... annoyingly enough, these directions don't work like direction.vector... you can't apply .vector to this (it just gives an error).
So, does anyone know how to get the vector from a bed's direction, so that I can face the NPC away from the bed?

[summer mirage]

(JustinS) Bed direction to vector

[summer mirage]

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[misty bone]

Currently using <map[north=<location[0,0,-1]>;east=<location[1,0,0]>;south=<location[0,0,1]>;west=<location[-1,0,0]>].get[<player.cursor_on.material.direction.to_lowercase>]> but this is so extremely cursed, please let me know if there's a better way

[thorny flame]

i mean nothin wrong with that

although direction to vector as a helper tag wouldn't hurt I suppose

[misty bone]

I guess this would be a feature request then? Very very simple pr I think

[coarse sun]

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[still dew]

!tag LocationTag.direction

[jaunty venture]

Tag: <LocationTag.direction[(<location>)]>

Returns the compass direction between two locations.
If no second location is specified, returns the direction of the location.
Example returns include "north", "southwest", ...

Group

math

Returns

ElementTag

[still dew]

!tag Materialtag.direction

[jaunty venture]

Tag: <MaterialTag.direction>

Returns the current facing direction for a directional material (like a door or a bed).
This includes materials that Spigot classifies as "directional", "orientable", or "rotatable", as well as rails, dripstone, and jigsaw blocks.
Output is a direction name like "NORTH", or an axis like "X", or a rail direction like "ASCENDING_NORTH".

Group

properties

Returns

ElementTag

Mechanism

MaterialTag.direction

[still dew]

See, the locationtag.direction does not work on beds. It's always south
this only will return south because you're using the location without a proper yaw in the locationtag

a player's location has yaw, the location a material is at does not typically have a yaw or pitch to reference (it defaults to zero)

south is Z+, which is also yaw: 0

you want the bed's location's material's direction

[misty bone]

I need to use locationtag.material.direction, which will return NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, or WEST. Now... annoyingly enough, these directions don't work like direction.vector... you can't apply .vector to this (it just gives an error).

[still dew]

oh i see

<map[north=<location[0,0,-1]>;east=<location[1,0,0]>;south=<location[0,0,1]>;west=<location[-1,0,0]>] is a bit rough, you could alternatively for the moment have a data key on your script or a data script container to reference?

my_script:
  data:
    directions:
     north: 0,0,-1
     east: 1,0,0
     south: 0,0,1
     west: -1,0,0

this would let you do any of:

• <script.data_key[data.directions.<[direction]>]>
• <script[my_script].data_key[data.directions.<[direction]>]>
• and:

- define directions <script[my_script].data_key[data.directions]>`
- define vector <[directions].get[<[direction]>]>