I need the parts to spawn around the object at a certain radius, how can I do this?
✓ ANSWER ACCEPTED
How to make a position on a circle?
1 answer
✓ Accepted answer
It's possible with using sine and cosine, using them you can generate sine waves which is all you need for the circle, i am very good at geometry so i can't really explain how it's doing it, however, i can show you a code on how to do it:
local CIRCLE = math.pi * 2
local RADIUS = 20
local original_part = workspace.Part
local function generate_random_angle()
return math.rad(math.random(0, 360))
end
local function create_part()
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Anchored = true
part.Size = Vector3.new(1, 1, 1)
return part
end
local function create_part_around_circle(original_position, angle, radius)
local part = create_part()
part.Position = original_position + Vector3.new(math.sin(angle) * radius, 0, math.cos(angle) * radius)
part.Parent = workspace
end
create_part_around_circle(
original_part.Position,
generate_random_angle(),
RADIUS
)
pi * 2 is 360 degrees but in radians. generate_random_angle generates random angle from 0 to 360 and converts it into radians using math.rad so it can work with sine and cosine, in create_part_around_circle function the position is the original part's position + offset, the offset is random sine and cosine number multiplied by the radius, the radius is defined in studs, sorry but this is all i can explain.
This discussion is preserved as it was. New answers, comments, and votes are closed.

3 comments
assuming you know how sin and cos work in a triangle, consider this circle with a radius of 1. using the inner angle, any point always has a horizontal position of cos and and a vertical position of sin. since this is a 1 radius circle, just multiply by radius. https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/images/unit-circle-sin-cos-tan.svg
that's why sin and cos look like waves with a maximum of one, because they are showing the offset of some point on this circle.
oh shoot mate thanks, i knew why they were making the waves but after looking on the image i am now pro math B)