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How to see if player walked near a part?
I have NPC in a game and I want to make it so if you walk near the NPC text will appear on your screen. I know I could just add an invisible part that the player would step on, but that is not very professional.
local part = script.Parent
-- Parts position is -223.845, 21.141, -0.373
local humanoid -- Get the humanoid of the player or something
if humanoid ~= nil then
print("Someone walked near me")
end
The player walks near the part ( like 5 - 10 studs ) and the function will run. It would be great if you included how to get player from the character in the answer.
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Sometimes, you have to go on with not too professional things, if it is possible to make it easier. DangerousKillerTimur 54 — 4y
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Magnitude is what you should use here.
The magnitude of a vector is the vector's length. The magnitude of two vectors is the distance between those two vectors.
So, here is an example of using it in your case:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- This gives us a player object to use
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char) -- This gives us the character object of the player
local part = script.Parent
while true do
wait()
if (part.Position - char.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude <= 10 then -- If the player is within 10 studs of the part...
-- Do something here
end
end
end)
end)
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I don't know if is the best solution, but in these cases I use Touched event in an invisible part welded to the the main part to create an area of trigger.
local part = script.Parent
local TriggerArea = script.Parent.TriggerArea -- as you create one like this
TriggerArea.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent.Humanoid then
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
print("Player near part: " .. player)
end
end)