Help With Retrieving Coordinates

Been working on a computercraft project recently and I need to be able to pull player coordinates and store them. I tried setting up a rednet connection to a pocket computer that would return its coordinates when prompted, but even when it locates it doesnt save the coordinates. Any idea on how I could store those values to variables in the pocket computer? I already know how to send them back.

You need to capture the values in variables, like so…

local x, y, z = gps.locate()

You can find more information here.

Dog, on 05 February 2017 - 06:35 AM said:

You need to capture the values in variables, like so…

local x, y, z = gps.locate()

You can find more information here.

I understand this. I set up a gps host, and the gps program worked, but when I did

local x, y, z = gps.locate()

And then try something like

print(x)

It just prints out a blank space with a one on the next line.

EDIT: just did a bit more reading and it appears that I need multiple computers running gps host

Yes - you need at least 4 computers (2 each at different altitudes). If you want an 'easy' way to build a GPS cluster for your world you could try Lyqyd's Project Builder or GPS-Deploy. Please note the link to GPS-Deploy is shameless self-promotion (it links to the version I just released). If you'd prefer to use the original version of GPS-Deploy, go here.