plus-or-minus

[artician]

Hey all, I'm trying to see if a character is within a particular range of another characters Y value. Is there a specific function for 'CharacterA Y = CharacterB Y plus-or-minus 256'?

Or do I simply have to create two separate conditions for checking a 'greater than' and 'lower than' value?

Thanks!

[RickyRombo]

I believe you might just have to make two conditions, but I've been with MMF2 for about 2 years now

It would look like this I think:

*YPlayer < YOther Player + 128
*YPlayer > YOther Player - 128

[artician]

Thanks Ricky. Yeah that's what I was using, but thought a "±" would clean it up a bit and didn't know if it could be done.

[Brandon]

I'm not sure of your situation, but couldn't you simply use absolute value? It would just be Abs(Yplayer - YOther player) is less than (<) 256.

[artician]

That is right. That should work, and is basically the same thing. Thanks for thinking of that!

[Cocodrilo]

Yeah I was wondering that too when I first saw the thread.
Absolute value should do the job.