Get player position

[Chainsaw]

What function in ACS can I use to get the current XYZ coordinates of yourself?

[Linguica]

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=GetActorX
http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=GetActorY
http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=GetActorZ

[Chainsaw]

This just returns the co-ordinates of the thing with the given Thing ID. Is it possible to give a thing ID to a player?

[Linguica]

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Thing_ChangeTID

although tid of 0 will give the player's coords in most instances.

[Chainsaw]

The following script should teleport you every 5 seconds back to where you just teleported from. TID's 2 and 3 are ZDoom map spots. I cannot make them move and take the place of the player was. The player always teleports to where they are placed on the map. I have also tried it with teleport destinations with the same effect:

script 1 (void)
{
int destID = 3;
int leftID = 2;
Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1);
while(1)
{
TeleportOther(leftID, 1,0);
TeleportOther(1, destID, 1);
if(destID == 2)
{
destID = 3;
leftID = 2;
}
else
{
destID = 2;
leftID = 3;
}
delay(5 *35);
}
}

I have also tried Thing_Move, but again to no avail.
any ideas?

[Linguica]

I don't think you can teleport map spots. Every 5 seconds just delete the spot with Thing_Remove and make a new one with Spawn at the player coords or whatever it is you're doing.

[Chainsaw]

Well, I finally got it doing what I wanted using THing_move(). it even works with map spots, but for some reason it wont move an object to you if you're standing next to a wall.