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Detect Player When Near Door?

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Icy_Qube 29

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

I'm using Region3 for this this door that I'm creating. The door opens perfectly fine when the player is inside the region. When it comes to closing it, I'm having a lot of trouble. How would I go about seeing if there are no players in the region?

Here's a general gist of the code opening the door

local region = Region3.new(pos1, pos2)

while true do
    wait(1)
    local partsInRegion = game.Workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region, nil, math.huge)
    local playersFound = {}

    for _, part in pairs(partsInRegion) do
        if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
            print("PLAYER!")
            playersFound[part.Parent.Name] = part.Parent
        end
    end

    for plrName, char in pairs(playersFound) do
        if char then
            if opened == false then
                Door1Open:Play()
                wait(openWait)
                opened = true
            end
        end
    end
end

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Answered by

LucarioZombie 291

5 years ago

I think it would be easier if Player:DistanceFromCharacter() was used.

I would go about it like this

local function GetPlayersInDistance(vec, dist)
    local players = {}
    for name, player in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do
        if player.Character and typeof(vec) == "Vector3" and type(dist) == "number" then
            local dis = player:DistanceFromCharacter(vec)
            if dis <= dist and dis > 0 then
                table.insert(players, player)
            end
        end
    end
    return players or {}
end

-- Example for returning a table of all players, 50 distance from door.Position (vector3)
local distance = 50
local nearby = GetPlayersInDistance(door.Position, distance)

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