Detecting Actors Positions Without Overlapping

micma

Hey GS Community,
I'm making a game where I need to detect which actors are up, down, left, and right of the main actor (not diagonal). The actors are not touching each other though. Is there any way I could detect the positioning through maybe a table or attributes?

Thanks,
Micma

P.S. I have released my first app to the App Store. It has been 4 days with no update, but from what I read, it usually takes around 6

RThurman

If (self.position.x - otherActor.position.x) is greater than 0 
   then 
      otherActor is left 
   otherwise 
      otherActor is right

If (self.position.y - otherActor.position.y) is greater than 0
   then 
      otherActor is below 
   otherwise 
      otherActor is above

micma

@RThurman said:
If (self.position.x - otherActor.position.x) is greater than 0
then
otherActor is left
otherwise
otherActor is right

If (self.position.y - otherActor.position.y) is greater than 0
then
otherActor is below
otherwise
otherActor is above

Thank you so much! There are more than one actors that will be above/below or left/right, but the actors are 50x50. So I can figure out from here how to detect if only one actor is above/below or left/right. Sorry if that didn't make any sense.