I was wondering what would be the most optimized and best way to go about checking for a player near another player, for interactions like reviving or executing. Here’s an example from Combat Warriors of what I mean:
Magnitude checking. From player A’s character’s position to player B’s character’s position
Yes, that would be a good way to see if you’re near enough to another player, however, I would have to loop through every player’s character and check the magnitude for each to actually detect the player first, and I feel that isn’t the most optimized way to do this. I might be wrong, though. Is there any other better way?
I would just loop through all the players and see how far you are.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()
local root = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
for _, otherPlayer in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local otherCharacter = player.Character
if not otherCharacter then continue end
local otherRoot = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
if not otherRoot then continue end
local dist = (otherRoot - root).Magnitude
if dist < 10 then
print(string.format("%s is close (%.1f studs away)", otherPlayer.Name, dist))
end
end
I mean, no? yes there are other ways but I’m not convinced they’ll be faster
It is insanely fast to calculate magnitude. If you have less than 10,000 players in your game it will never show up in your performance monitoring.
Using something like Spatial Query could work? Considering you don’t want to check distance from every player
Okay, I was wrong then, I thought that wouldn’t be very optimized. Thanks for the solution.