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My script that judges distance of blocks in a group and the closest one is printed is not working?
Im trying to make something judging by the distance of the parts, here is what I have so far,
local lastdist, lastv, closestdist
group = script.Parent
for i,v in pairs(group:GetChildren()) do
lastdist = distance
distance = (game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Torso.Position - v.Position).magnitude
if lastv ~= nil then
lastdist = (game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Torso.Position - lastv.Position).magnitude
end
if lastdist ~= nil and distance < lastdist then
closestdist = distance
end
lastv = v
end
print(closestdist)
There is no error but it isnt printing it. Please help!
PS: it's in a local script
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You have no defined distance so lastdist = distance will be nil each time. Since you check that lastdist ~= nil closestdist is never assigned a value meaning it will be nil each time.
I feel that you are over complicating this. We only need to store the players position, the closest part part and distance ( so we do not need to calculate it each time) then loop and check each parts position.
Example:-
-- you should make a function if you use the code more than once
local function findClosestPart(group, position)
local closestPart, closestPartMagnitude
local tmpMagnitude -- to store our calculation
for i, v in pairs(group:GetChildren()) do
if closestPart then -- we have a part
tmpMagnitude = (position - v.Position).magnitude
-- check the next part
if tmpMagnitude < closestPartMagnitude then
closestPart = v
closestPartMagnitude = tmpMagnitude
end
else
-- our first part
closestPart = v
closestPartMagnitude = (position - v.Position).magnitude
end
end
return closestPart, closestPartMagnitude
end
print(findClosestPart(script.Parent, game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Torso.Position))
I hope this helps.
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thanks! Benified4Life 2 — 7y