How to get North / South / East / West from a vector

[Resin_Smoker]

This is something I'd liked to have known a long time ago...

Feed in the x and z data from your three point vector...

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local heading = math.atan2( vector[1], vector[3] )
LOG(' heading: ', heading)

A log result of:

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0 = north
- values = east
+ values = west
3 = south

Hence a value of -2.4257481098175 is somewhere south / east of our target. (Relative to the map not the unit)

Note: Used the vector data from unit.lua DoTakeDamage to test this. No engineers were hurt during the testing of this script.

Resin