What's the difference: getPos vs getTilePos?

[Bob Irving]

I use this all the time to get the player's position (mc.player.getPos or getTilePos). But I don't know what the difference is.

Why use one over the other?

TIA,

Bob Irving

Porter-Gaud School

Charleston, SC

[Martin O'Hanlon]

Hi Bob,

• getPos - gets the players position.
  
• getTilePos - gets the position of the tile where the player is... The tile being the top of the block the player is standing on.
  

In more practical terms, if your standing the middle of block (1,1,1)

• getPos - gives you a very precise position of the player as decimals (floats), and would return (1.5, 1.5, 1.5)
  
• getTilePos - gives you the position of the block as integers, returing (1, 1, 1)

getTilePos is generally more useful if you want to use the players position to interact with blocks, getPos is generally better for tracking the players position.

Mart