Creating a Square Area

I'm trying to work on a land claiming area. I was going to use two locations that I pick and then create the area that way but I don't really know how to do that. Any hints or nudges in the right direction would be appreciated.

EDIT: I don't need a cube, the Y direction is not relevant in this case.

 

Apart from the fact that tons of claiming plugins allready exist, i would simply store important information about the region in a config file. I.E. region-id, owner, location1, location2.

 

Its not just a claiming plugin. What exactly do I do with the two locations. How do I loop through the blocks from those 2 locations to create a square?

 

Now i got it. You need to put two for-loops together. In one, you begin with the lower x coordinate (from the 2 locations) and loop until it reaches the higher x coordinate. And the same with the z-coordinate.

PHP:

for (x = lowerX; x < higherX; x++)
    for (z = lowerZ; z < higherZ; z++)

 

maybe you should use Vectors...?

 

Thats my main problem. How do I figure out which one is my lowest and highest? Players are going to be doing this on the fly so it's going to be a problem.

EDIT: So this is what I want to do. Very much like factions claiming (except no chunks). I want to check if people are in a certain "claim" or region so I can do different things. I hope that made things easier to understand.

 

where do I get that from?

 

@Irantwomiles
Math.min();

 

@Irantwomiles

You know both x's, just compare them?

 

k. I'll give it a try

EDIT: So will it look something like this.

Code:

for(int x = 0; x< Math.max(loc1.x, loc2,x); x++) {
for(int z = 0; z < Math.min(loc1.z, loc2.z); z++ {

}
}

 

@Irantwomiles

That would work, yes. Assuming you were starting from zero, and you were going to the lowest values.

Although I would think you mean to go from the minimum to the maximum, not zero to minimum.

 

oh, yes you're right. I have another question though, how would I check if a certain person is within this square?

 

@Irantwomiles

Vectors have a method called "isInAABB" which will check that (just make sure they're at y =0 and y = 255 if you don't want to consider Y).

 

Ok thanks. I'll look into it tomorrow morning!