How to know if a object is [top|bottom|left|right] using another object?

[gcmartijn]

H!

I thought it was easy, and I guess I will figure it out but maybe someone already made this?

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function something(x,y, x1,y1, x2, y2)
 -- here I can simply check that x > then x1 and x2 
 -- here I can simply check that x < then x1 and x2 
  -- here I can simply check that y > then y1 and y2 
 -- here I can simply check that y < then y1 and y2 
 -- but the combination I don't understand, to get the output I want.
 
return [top|bottom|left|right]
end

--rect-----
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB A
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB

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local bla = something(a.x, a.y, b.x1, b.y1, b.x2, b.y2)
bla == left

--rect-----
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
A

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local bla = something(a.x, a.y, b.x1, b.y1, b.x2, b.y2)
bla == bottom

[pgimeno]

Do you mean a point with respect to a rectangle, or one rectangle with respect to another?

What happens in this case?

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BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
        A

Is it considered bottom? Right? Doesn't matter?

And what about this case?

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BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
                A

[gcmartijn]

Good point, need to explain it better.

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BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
               A

output: left side

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BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBB
                        A

output: left side

You can say this maybe:
draw virtual 2 horizontal lines and 2 vertical lines around the rect.
And then check on which side the x,y point is.

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--|-------------|-
--|BBBBBBBB|
--|BBBBBBBB|
--|BBBBBBBB|
--|BBBBBBBB|
--|-------------|

For example https://2dengine.com/?p=intersections#P ... _rectangle
There you can see those grey lines.

The only difference would be that in that example two lines light up in the four corners, that needs to be one.

Screenshot 2020-11-22 at 12.27.26.png (17.8 KiB) Viewed 3855 times

[pgimeno]

I'm not sure I'm understanding correctly, but...

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local function pointPosition(x, y, x1, y1, x2, y2)
  if y2 < y then return "up" end
  if y1 > y then return "bottom" end
  if x1 > x then return "right" end
  if x2 < x then return "left" end
  return "inside"
end

is that what you want? The image contradicts what you said about left side, so I'm a bit confused.

[gcmartijn]

Thanks, I see now that this is not a ideal situation for a problem I try to solve.
I will try to avoid this and re-thing about another solution.

Maybe at some point I need to have the same function like https://2dengine.com/?p=intersections#P ... _rectangle so a point can have with multiple output for the corner. For example: [bottom,left]

[RNavega]

You could have two functions, one for a horizontal comparison and another for vertical comparison. So for example the horizontal function just returns if the object is to the left, center, or right of the reference object.