#Portals
fallow dawn
many portals in one chunk
proper phoenix
ah ok, but seperate portals, you just want to find all connected blocks in a portal?
fallow dawn
yeah
proper phoenix
ok thats not hard
fallow dawn
when I have tried I've got an infinite loop
proper phoenix
if you have one block, you simply do a N/S/E/W search for a block next to teh start block
expanding out
you shoudl also include up and down to cover upright portals
haughty maple
^ i was kinda saying that in general chat basically troop through x and y coordinets in a sense
proper phoenix
I've done this algorithm for claimed plots
slightly more complex but the same idea
haughty maple
Yeah thats just a very basic way to do it, im not the best at algorithms, but something like that wouldn't be too hard on the CPU
fallow dawn
so a tree with 4 nodes?
haughty maple
Okay just wanted to drop by and put that info in here, gnight you 2
fallow dawn
@proper phoenix
proper phoenix
no
you have 6 directions you have to search
you will need to create some helper methods...
List<BlockFace> cardinal = Arrays.asList( BlockFace.NORTH, BlockFace.EAST, BlockFace.SOUTH, BlockFace.WEST, BlockFace.UP, BlockFace.Down );
public static List<Block> getNeighbourPortals(Block block) {
List<Block> portals = new ArrayList<Block>();
for (BlockFace direction : cardinal) {
Block test = block.getFacing(direction);
if (test.getType() == Material.PORTAL)
portals.add(test);
}
return portals;
}```basically search around a block for any portal blocks
you will have to fix the Material check to look for any portal block types
Then the algorithm part
fallow dawn
thank you
proper phoenix
Untested but somethgin like ```java
public static List<Block> getAllConnected(Block block) {
Set<Block> tested = new HashSet<Block>();
List<Block> toTest = new ArrayList<Block>();
toTest.add(block);
/*
* Loop until we have tested all connected blocks.
*/
while (!toTest.isEmpty()) {
Block test = toTest.get(0);
toTest.remove(0);
tested.add(test);
for (Block portal : getNeighbourPortals(test)) {
if (!toTest.contains(portal) && !tested.contains(portal)) {
toTest.add(portal);
}
}
}
return Collections.unmodifiableList(new ArrayList<Block>(tested));
}```
if you call getAllConnected passing it a portal block it should return a list of all connected portal blocks
let me know if it works
as it was just thrown together