Can't Calculate The Distance Between Models

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#1

Hello everyone,

I’ve been dealing with this problem for a couple of hours and I finally gave up.

The Problem : Well I created a model of a Tree and I want to spawn it around the border, well I managed to do that but I want to have some king of distance between the trees so that wouldn’t collide with each other.

can anyone help me with that?

Code:

local Border = { 
	MinX = -500,
	MaxX = 500,
	
	MinY = 30,
	MaxY = 34.5,
	
	MinZ = -500,
	MaxZ = 500
}

local MaxTrees = 200
local TreeRespawnTimeMin = 10 --60
local TreeRespawnTimeMax = 20 --180
local DistanceBetweenTrees = 12


while true do
		wait(0.1)--[[.random(RespawnTimeMin, RespawnTimeMax)]] 
		if #game.Workspace.GameTrees:GetChildren() < maxTrees then
			
			--Models
			local Tree = TreeModel
			local TreeClone = Tree:Clone()
			
			--Positioning
			TreeClone.Parent = game.Workspace.GameTrees
			TreeClone:PivotTo(CFrame.new(math.random(border.MinX, border.MaxX), math.random(border.MinY, border.MaxY), math.random(border.MinZ,border.MaxZ)))
			
			--args
			local distX = 0
			local distZ = 0
			local bool = true
			
			repeat 
				wait(0.1)
				for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace.GameTrees:GetChildren()) do

					distX = math.abs(v.PrimaryPart.Position.X - TreeClone.PrimaryPart.Position.X)
					distZ = math.abs(v.PrimaryPart.Position.Z - TreeClone.PrimaryPart.Position.Z)
					
					wait(0.1)
					
					print("----------------------------")
					print("dist X:" .. distX)
					print("dist Z:" .. distZ)
					print("----------------------------")
					
					if distX < DistanceBetweenTrees and distZ < DistanceBetweenTrees then
						--TreeClone:PivotTo(CFrame.new(math.random(border.MinX, border.MaxX), math.random(border.MinY, border.MaxY), math.random(border.MinZ,border.MaxZ)))
						bool = false
					end
					
				end
				
				if not bool then
					TreeClone:PivotTo(CFrame.new(math.random(border.MinX, border.MaxX), math.random(border.MinY, border.MaxY), math.random(border.MinZ,border.MaxZ)))
				end
				
			until(distX > DistanceBetweenTrees and distZ > DistanceBetweenTrees)
			
			print(TreeClone:GetPivot())
		end
	end
#3

Hmm, this is a tricky one.
You could make a hitbox for the tree, basically just a big invisible part that resembles the size of the tree.
Now say that a tree spawns to close to the other tree, if its touching this hitbox, then delete the tree.

After a bit of searching, this topic might help you, Trees spawning inside eachother

#4

Have you tried using Magnitude to get the distance between the primary parts of the trees? If not, you can do this, it will returns the length of a Vector3, so by subtracting the first position by the second, it will give us the length of the distance between the two:
(POSITION2 - POSITION1).Magnitude