Alright guys, as many of your know there's a lot of maps in the Foundry that are basically useless because they're so tiered, you really can't place objects in certain places on a horizontal map and be sure you're getting it where it needs to go vertically.

When the Foundry first launched, the way around this was to use the /LOC command line to get the exact placement of where you were standing so you could put your objects in the right place.

Well then someone decided to change all the Foundry measurements to something else, making /LOC entirely useless unless converted with math. What I'm trying to figure out is, what do I need to divide by to get the appropriate number here?

And Foundry devs, why can't we get this functionality built into the Foundry itself so we don't HAVE to do this? Without it, there are SEVERAL maps that are damn near impossible to build on.

provisionally it seems to be (<loc number> / 3.281) = real number. Now if this isnt 100% precise I welcome a refining of it, additionally I welcome this being implemented in the back end so that math isnt required everytime you want to use it

I just divide the X and Z by 3.28. The Y value is unreliable. I don't think there is a math trick for it.

It's simple... /loc reports coordinates in feet. Just convert from feet to meters using one of the formulas kirk and castsbugc posted. I'm not sure what the y value it reports is relative to.

I think of the random Y number (usually something like 1176) as a guess of how many times I'm going to preview that map.

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