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Negative Radii and Delta Coordinates

There should be a way to set a negative radius and negative delta coordinates. I know you can currently type a negative number in, but it just acts like a positive number.

A negative radius would work like this: the command would affect everything outside of that area. Anything inside the area wouldn't be affected.

Ex: Let's say I want to give everyone outside of spawn a diamond. If I set the radius to -50, it will give everyone outside of a 50 block area a diamond.

Negative delta coordinates would work similar, but with the way delta coords usually work.

Ex: I want to make a particle effect where the particles are thicker/start at the edges instead of the center. I set the dx, dy, and dz to -1. With the use of negative d-coords, the particles would now start at the edges rather than starting at the center.

This would be useful in mapmaking and I think it would make things a whole lot easier for certain builds.

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• April 30, 2020 15:26
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  • April 21, 2020 18:28
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  I'm going to be honest here. This makes no sense.

  The radius argument (or distance argument) checks how far an entity is from a certain location. It has nothing to do with the entity entering or leaving the location. If we extend the distance argument to accept negative numbers, the logical conclusion would be that the game checks if an entity is a certain negative distance (?????) away from a certain location. If you think about it from a mathematical perspective, however, positive radii should work exactly the same as negative radii (graphing r=1 gives the same circle as r=-1).

  In either case, that's just not how negative numbers work.