Best Place To Place Code To Close a Shop Based on Distance

[Honkeysimons]

Hey All,

In my game a player can click on a store monitor to bring up a store menu for purchasing items. The store menu is a GUI with Frame and Buttons. Clicking the Buttons will take you to additional store areas. Pretty straight forward. I have about a dozen different store area Frames that a player might make Visible.

What I need to create is a simple way to close any of the Frames that might be visible if the player moves too far away from the store monitor.

Within a LocalScript, I was thinking of creating a table to hold all the shop Frames. Then setup a function/event to detect the distance between the player and the shop monitor. I’ve seen use of RunService and Magnitude to do that. If the distance exceed a specified value, then loop through the shop Frame table and make all the Frames Visible = false.

Where should I add this code? Should this code be placed in a script by itself or merged with the main shop LocalScript? I’m afraid that if I add it to the main shop LocalScript, monitoring for distance might interfere with the rest of the script from running properly.

Any other suggestions or considerations to this setup?

[Feedekaiser]

Use a part and use the Touched event.

[Huggedi]

Note that if you set frame.visible to false, all children will not be visible as well. No need to loop through a table unless you are using the table for a different reason. Also a suggestion for checking the distance: you can connect the humanoid.running event to make it check the distance when the player moves, that means that you don’t have to have a while loop running all of the time

[Clueless_Brick]

Bad idea considering how unreliable Touched events are and especially TouchEnded.

I highly recommend Region3 since you get more accurate results in detecting the region of where the player is in.

[Feedekaiser]

I never mentioned using TouchEnded. Using boolean and Touched works.

[Clueless_Brick]

TouchEnded fires when you Equip/Unequip a tool

TouchEnded isn’t really a reliable Event to use for Touch tbh. Can you add more detail to what you are trying to do so we can think of a better way to script this?

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[7kayoh (kayoh)]

Make it client-sided and make use of Humanoid event, and Magnitude. (Or Region3, Raycast, whatsoever)