Detect if square in grid is within a diamond shape
- by myrkos
So I have a game in which basically everything is a square inside a big grid. It's easy to check if a square is inside a box whose center is another square:
*** x
*o* --> x is not in o's square
***
**x
*o* --> x IS in o's square
***
This can be done by simply subtracting the coordinates of o and x, then taking the largest coordinate of that and comparing it with the half side length.
Now I want to do the same thing but check if x is in o's diamond, like so:
*
**x
**o** --> x IS in o's diamond
***
*
What would be the best way to check if a square is in another square's surrounding diamond-shaped area, given the diamond's half width/height?
