Arch / Wave effect using sin

[tribal zephyr]

Hey, so I'm gonna try using sin to see what's possible

[sand nova]

ok look this

this is the sin function

[tribal zephyr]

Oh right, yeah that's the sort of effect I want

Is it worth me learning more about the Math class?

[sand nova]

idk

I am in a similar position than you

[tribal zephyr]

It's just generated https://i.imgur.com/rQ8FPJp.jpeg lol

[sand nova]

try using that function @tribal zephyr

experiment a bit with it and try understanding it

[tribal zephyr]

I mean that's with the sin function

[sand nova]

you can also do stuff like this

to change the degree of the slope

[sand nova]

my knowledge of maths doesn't go that far

:p

[tribal zephyr]

I wish finnbon was on, they know everything 😛

[sand nova]

lol

why the A B C and D?

what do they do

[tribal zephyr]

Looks like I want y = sin(1 x 0.5) but I gotta somehow put that into maths

[sand nova]

so for example

you say

I want to draw a wave from x = 0 to x = 10

you do a for loop

for (int x = 0; x <= 10; x++) {
  y = sin(x * 0,5)
  // set block at x, y with those values
}

@vital mauve how could you make so it starts the wave at one point and it ends at another instead of having it continuing?

[tribal zephyr]

Ok I got some progress

[sand nova]

show it

[tribal zephyr]

https://i.imgur.com/CLXglxY.png

[sand nova]

yep

[tribal zephyr]

I need need to work out how to cut this red part out though https://i.imgur.com/xV9TTv5.png

[sand nova]

you only want so they go up?

[tribal zephyr]

yeah

[sand nova]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/x9VGwd7BZEo1XA-1eGtlBORl6p9t5lZCB9hw_ZeQRqc/https/i.imgur.com/cYGFh0m.png?width=1272&height=700

btw this was made using the new blocks

[tribal zephyr]

Oh yeah my bad 🤦‍♂️

new blocks?

[sand nova]

let me search the name

I haven't experimented with them

[tribal zephyr]

They use a pack to do that I know that for sure

I just remembered how they do it btw, they use trapdoors

[sand nova]

idk the blocks name

you could also use floating blocks without gravity

[tribal zephyr]

The server I play on makes it like this, I saw it when the texture pack glitched https://i.imgur.com/jSmyND9.png

[sand nova]

but that's just a stair

[tribal zephyr]

They use trap doors I'm pretty sure

[sand nova]

search for floating blocks

[tribal zephyr]

I mean spawning a bunch of floating blocks with cause performance issues no?

[strong fiber]

not that much

[tribal zephyr]

Do you mean falling blocks? Because I can't anything for floating blocks

[strong fiber]

sth like this?

for (int x = 0; x <= 10; x++) {
            double y = Math.sin(x * 0.5);
            Location loc = new Location(world,x,y,z);
            BlockDisplay bd = (BlockDisplay) world.spawnEntity(loc, EntityType.BLOCK_DISPLAY);
            bd.setBlock(Bukkit.createBlockData(Material.STONE));
        }

@tribal zephyr

[tribal zephyr]

What's a BlockDisplay 🤔

[strong fiber]

new feature in 1.19.4 that allows block and item displays

they can change size, rotation and so on

[tribal zephyr]

size 🤔

this ain't gonna end well, lol

[strong fiber]

u need to modify the block they displaying

[tribal zephyr]

I tried that and it caused a lot of performance issues