I have a script that spawns enemies in random positions. But they occasionally spawn inside other objects or on top of other enemies. How do I handle this problem? 

local enemies = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").NPC.Enemies
local clonePlace = workspace.NPC.Enemies
local enemycount = script.Parent.EnemyCount
local enemytype = script.Parent.EnemyType
local maxnumber = script.Parent.MaxNumber
local delaytime = script.Parent.Delay
local increment = script.Parent.Increment

local spawner = script.Parent


while wait(delaytime.Value) do
	if enemycount.Value < maxnumber.Value then
		enemycount.Value = enemycount.Value + 1
		
		local clonedEnemy = enemies:FindFirstChild(enemytype.Value):Clone()
		clonedEnemy.Parent = clonePlace
			
		local minX = spawner.Position.X - increment.Value
		local maxX = spawner.Position.X + increment.Value
			
		local minZ = spawner.Position.Z - increment.Value
		local maxZ = spawner.Position.Z + increment.Value
			
		clonedEnemy.Head.CFrame = CFrame.new( math.random(minX, maxX), spawner.Position.Y + 15, math.random(minZ, maxZ) )
	end
end
Anonymous

2 comments

0

I would insert the positions into a table and every iteration you would check if the new position - any position in the table is less than 10 studs (or whatever) from your position (using magnitude) then you would retry again until it gets a new position.

Anonymous#
0

That would work, and you could also spawn them in the sky and drop them until they hit the ground so that they don't spawn inside of other objects.

Anonymous#