Solved [MATH] Teleporting a player randomly in a defined radius

In one part of my plugin, I need to teleport a player 500 to 1000 blocks randomly away from a location. Sadly, I'm not good enough at math to do this Can anyone help me out?

 

how about this (The only very easy method I could think of that would work in one go, in my current state of tiredness xD):

Code:java

double areaRadius = 1000; //Or any radius you want
double minRadius = 500; // This would give me a radius between 500 and 1000
double t = Math.random() * Math.PI;
double radius = Math.random()*(areaRadius - minRadius) + minRadius;
double x = Math.cos(t) * radius;
double y = Math.sin(t) * radius;
double z = Math.sin(t) * radius; // If you want z aswell

 

How would I include the original coordinates of the player in this? I have gotten their coordinates and want to teleport them randomly, centered on the player's coordinates. Thanks a lot for the help though!

 

By the means of 'translation' (as it is called in mathematics).

Code:java

// Addition to the previous
Location to = player.getLocation().clone();
to.add(x, y, z); // Its just a matter of adding the x, y and z
player.teleport(to);

 

Code:java

 
Thanks a lot! I used your code and finally got this working! :) I'm taking pre calculus next semester so hopefully i will learn how to do this math myself T_T

 

My calculus course was no that bad, until the exam...

 

You aren't going to get much randomness with that algorithm, this is how it looks if you spawned a goldblock at the position instead of teleporting a player there:


How i used it:

Code:

Location location = ((Player)sender).getLocation();
     
        for(int i = 0 ; i < 500 ; i++) {
            double areaRadius = 100; //Or any radius you want
            double minRadius = 50; // This would give me a radius between 500 and 1000
            double t = Math.random() * Math.PI;
            double radius = Math.random()*(areaRadius - minRadius) + minRadius;
            double x = Math.cos(t) * radius;
            double y = Math.sin(t) * radius;
            double z = Math.sin(t) * radius; // If you want z aswell
         
            location.add(x,y,z).getBlock().setType(Material.GOLD_BLOCK);
         
            location = ((Player)sender).getLocation();
         
            logger.debug("GOLDBLOCK! " + x + " " + y + " " + z);
        }

I would recommend something like this instead:

Code:

Location location = ((Player)sender).getLocation();
       
        for(int i = 0 ; i < 500 ; i++) {
           
            int max = 100;
           
            double x = Math.random() * (max * 2) - max;
            double y = Math.random() * (max * 2) - max;
            double z = Math.random() * (max * 2) - max;
           
           
            location.add(x,y,z).getBlock().setType(Material.GOLD_BLOCK);
           
            location = ((Player)sender).getLocation();
           
            logger.debug("GOLDBLOCK! " + x + " " + y + " " + z);
        }
        

That ends up with this:

 

LucasEmanuel true I should have used 3 random t's, then it would work perfectly fine