Store 2D region

Storing 3D regions is easy but are there any simple ways to store a region that can only be 2D?

 

What's the problem? If you can store 3D you probably can do it with 2D...

 

Store the 3D region, then only look at the x & z coordinates since I assume you want to look from the top down

 

I want to store locations for item frames actually, for top down it would be easy by just storing x and z coordinates but when you are storing "walls" it gets a little complex.

I guess there is just no obvious way to do this? I could just use a 3D region and throw an exception if a region that isn't 2D is used.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Umm.. would think the opposite..

 

I don't really understand the connection between storing a region and storing the location of an item frame.

 

Basically I'm making an API to make "displays" and they need a region to create one and it would be a lot nicer to only have a 2D region instead of assuming that devs have only allowed a 2D region.

 

Are you trying to store the coordinates of an item frame block? Nogtail

 

I'm trying to store the coordinates of the blocks the item frame hangs on, currently I'm storing a 3D region which works fine and throws an exception if a region that is not 2D is used but it would be nicer if you could only have a 2D region.

 

Just use a 3D region and save the BlockFace for the item frames along side with it.

EDIT:
Also if you are going to spawn item frames, currently spawning them is really dodgy. I figured out a way to get it to work some time ago, you can take a look at it here.

 

That's what I'm currently doing, what I was wanting to do with a 2D region was minimise the code a developer has to use to get the display created (not have to check for a 2D region).