getPos within X and Y

[bangabob 41]

Hello. I am trying to make a unit spawn within a marker area. However this is harder than it seems.

If the marker is a perfect circle then i can use the following code since the marker is the same for both X and Y axis.

_eosMkr="m1";
_eosPOS=markerpos _eosMkr;
_eosMkrSizeX= getMarkerSize _eosMkr select 0;
_eosMkrSizeY= getMarkerSize _eosMkr select 1;

_spwnposNew = [_eosPOS,_eosMkrSizeY , random 360] call BIS_fnc_relPos;

However, if the marker is a rectangle or non-symmetrical then i can get positions outside the marker zone since my current code only draws distance from the Y size of the marker.

Thanks for reading. Any help is appreciated

[Coding 12]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/markerShape

if (markerShape YOURMARKER == "ELLIPSE") then//dont know if uppercase or how it is written...

{

//your code

}

else

{

//code to spawn in rectangle

}

[spunfin 34]

I use this method to check if something is inside ELLIPSE or RECTANGLE. Perhaps you can adapt it too.

[cuel 25]

Try this by Shuko

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?89376-SHK_pos