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How do you find the magnitude between two frames inside an ScreenGui?

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UnleashedGamers 257 Moderation Voter
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

Using ROBLOX's WIKI page for magnitude I manged to make it work for bricks, now trying to find the magnitude between frames is not working as well :

WIKI : (http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Magnitude)

WORKING CODE :

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1local center = game.Workspace.center
2local short = game.Workspace.short
3local long = game.Workspace.long
4local magnitude = (center.Position - short.Position).magnitude
5print(magnitude)

Now the working code is ONLY for the bricks, but I am trying to make this move over to a ScreenGUI + ImageButton.

Would I need to make my own Vector3 values in order to get the position, because using [(frame.Position - frame2.Position).magnitude] gives me an error

This leads me to that fact I need to get in individual values of the UDim2 properties, which I don't know how to do and that's why I came here.

ERROR : magnitude is not a valid member, did you forget to capitalize the first letter? 13:30:37.945 - Script 'Players.Player1.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.ImageButton.Script', Line 5

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Answered by
patrline5599 150
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

You can use the Pythagorean theorem here. Simply plug in the X and Y values for the two objects .

dist = sqrt((x2 - x1) ^ 2 + (y2 - y1) ^ 2)

This formula only works if your parts are positioned using the Offset property.

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1local center = game.Workspace.center
2local short = game.Workspace.short
3local long = game.Workspace.long
4 
5-- dist = sqrt((x2 - x1) ^ 2 + (y2 - y1) ^ 2)
6 
7local magnitude = math.sqrt(((center.Position.X.Offset - short.Position.X.Offset) ^ 2) + ((center.Position.Y.Offset - short.Position.Y.Offset) ^ 2))
8print(magnitude)
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Do you mind giving me a filled in example, I am not very good at math, my apologies. UnleashedGamers 257 — 8y
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Wil do - gimme a minute or so patrline5599 150 — 8y
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No problem, take your time. Thank you. UnleashedGamers 257 — 8y
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Did this end up helping you? patrline5599 150 — 8y
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Thanks! UnleashedGamers 257 — 8y
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It sure did! UnleashedGamers 257 — 8y
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