Calculate Front Of Part Position

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I need to calculate where is the front of a part (position).
  2. What is the issue?
    The Position property is in the middle not at the front of the part.
  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I have tried some math, but I am not really good with it.

The Part Position is in the middle, but I need the front of the part’s Position!

    local Part = Instance.new("Part")
	Part.Name = "TestPart"
	Part.Parent = workspace
	Part.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1)
	Part.CFrame = CFrame.new(script.Parent.IKPart1.Position, script.Parent.GrabPart.Position)
	Part.Anchored = true
	Part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255,0,0)
	Part.Transparency = 0.5

This is probably some math, but I am not good with math.

#2 
local Front = Part.Position + Vector3.new(Part.Position.X / 2, 0, 0)
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#3

I tried that, but the part is way off.

#4

wdym? can you provide a screenshot?

#5

Blue is where is it suppose to be. Red is what the part did.

MyPartIsBuiltDifferent

#6

what is the name of the part you want to get the front of

#7

It’s called IKPart1. This is what I did:
The Part being made is the Red Part.

local Part = Instance.new("Part")
	Part.Name = "TestPart"
	Part.Parent = workspace
	Part.Size = Vector3.new(1,1,1)
	Part.Position = script.Parent.IKPart1.Position + Vector3.new(script.Parent.IKPart1.Position.X / 2, 0, 0)
	Part.Anchored = true
	Part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255,0,0)
	Part.Transparency = 0.5
#8

In case it’s oriented, you can just use the LookVector

local position = part.Position + part.CFrame.LookVector*5 --note that it will get the position of 5 studs in front of the part. You can just remove the '*5' part and leave nothing, and it'll return the position of one stud in front of the part's LookVector
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#9

This seemed to work, but what if the parts are different sizes? How could I make sure that it goes exactly to the front?

Also, thank you.

#10

My previous solution didnt worked bc i accidentally changed size to position when dividing by 2.
Using rubixxman solution’s it will look like that

local Front = script.Parent.IKPart1.CFrame.LookVector * (script.Parent.IKPart1.Size.X / 2)
#11

My X is 1, so doing that only moves it 0.5.

#12

um just wondering why all of you are using the x axis but assuming you want the front of the z axis:

local Front = Part.CFrame.LookVector * (Part.Size.Z / 2)
#13

yea, it gets the position that the part ends
use this instead:

local Front = script.Parent.IKPart1.CFrame.LookVector * ((script.Parent.IKPart1.Size.X / 2) + Part.Size.X / 2)
#14 
local frontpos = script.Parent.IKPart1.CFrame.LookVector * script.Parent.IKPart1.Size.X/2

works for me

#15

Actually, this is the correct script:

local Front = script.Parent.IKPart1.CFrame.LookVector * (Part.Size.X / 2)
#16

How would I make it so it looks at the top of the part and not the front?