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copied!<p>I'm just doing this to try improve my skills a little, I'm trying to recreate a game I thought of years ago when I was bored in school.</p> <p>Basically it's kinda like a 3d connect 4, also supposed to flip over so it'll screw up your ideas if your spacial awareness isn't great. I've tried making a very basic display in python (I know how to build things in maya, not in python, so for now I'll stick with a rubbish looking design until I get it working), and it can also lookup the points and place them in.</p> <p>However, I'm stuck on actually reading these points to find any rows of 4. I know I could physically type it all out, but I'm sure there would be a much better way.For example, each corner point could go either x, y, z, xy, xz, yz, or xyz, I don't expect anyone to do the code for me, but it'd be appreciated if you could tell me a way of calculating this without typing out each possible combination (I think there's 76 in total unless I missed any)</p> <p>I would have done a loop if not for the diagonals, but I have no idea how I'd go about checking these</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>The code so far is here -</p> <pre><code>#x(width),z(depth),y(height),playernum points=[1,4,1,1],[2,1,3,1],[4,4,1,2],[3,4,1,2],[2,4,1,2],[1,1,2,1] for j in range(1,5): #set indent spaces=" " #draw top print spaces + "________________" #search points on certain level validPointsY=[] for point in points: if point[2]==5-j: validPointsY.append( point ) #draw middle for i in range(1,5): #search points on certain row validPointsZ=[] for point in validPointsY: if point[1]==5-i: validPointsZ.append( point ) #place points in correct box point1=" " point2=" " point3=" " point4=" " for point in validPointsZ: if point[0]==1: point1=str(point[3]) if point[0]==2: point2=str(point[3]) if point[0]==3: point3=str(point[3]) if point[0]==4: point4=str(point[3]) #remove one from space spaces = spaces[:-1] print spaces + "/ "+point1+" / "+point2+" / "+point3+" / "+point4+" /" spaces = spaces[:-1] print spaces + "/___/___/___/___/" </code></pre> <p>Just for the record, the game is quite fun if you have nothing to do, obviously it's not gonna look great at all from this though haha</p>

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