Defining Player area with two points.

Hey,
I need a way to detect when a player places a block in a certain area.
At the moment players can define 2 points and it writes this to a file.

NameOfArea = x1,y1,z1,x2,y2,z2

That all works fine.
Thing is i just can't figure out how to detect where the block placed is in that area.
What i mean is that the block is placed.
A method then gets the location of this block and compares it to every area.
This is what i cannot figure out. I have tried listing all the areas and then checking each one but it dosn't want to work.

My head hurts
Can anyone help me

 

I'm not exactly sure what you mean.. do you mean is it inside the box defined by those two points ?
I'm actually working on something right now where I needed that. I can give you my method if you want.

 

Yes to see if the block is inside the box define by those points.
If you could that will be great

 

Zone is a class that I made that has two bounding Locations just replace z.getBound... with your two bounds.
The boolean _Dirs are defined :

Code:

xDir = bound1.getBlockX() < bound2.getBlockX();
yDir = bound1.getBlockY() < bound2.getBlockY();
zDir = bound1.getBlockZ() < bound2.getBlockZ();

Code:

public boolean isLocationInZone(Zone z, Location loc){

        int locX = loc.getBlockX(), locY = loc.getBlockY(), locZ = loc.getBlockZ();
        boolean insideX = (z.xDir ? locX >= z.getBound1().getBlockX() : locX <= z.getBound1().getBlockX());
        boolean insideY = (z.yDir ? locY >= z.getBound1().getBlockY() : locY <= z.getBound1().getBlockY());
        boolean insideZ = (z.zDir ? locZ >= z.getBound1().getBlockZ() : locZ <= z.getBound1().getBlockZ());

        if(insideX && insideY && insideZ){

            insideX = (z.xDir ? locX <= z.getBound2().getBlockX() : locX >= z.getBound2().getBlockX());
            insideY = (z.yDir ? locY <= z.getBound2().getBlockY() : locY >= z.getBound2().getBlockY());
            insideZ = (z.zDir ? locZ <= z.getBound2().getBlockZ() : locZ >= z.getBound2().getBlockZ());

            return insideX && insideY && insideZ;

        }

        return false;

    }

Probably not the best way to do stuff but it works for me.

 

The bukkit Vector class has an isInAABB() method that does exactly the same thing if I'm not mistaken.

http://javadoc.lukegb.com/BukkitAPI/df/d08/Vector_8java_source.html#l00319

 

Ooh that could be useful.
Thanks Crash + Eisental.