Convert direction to angle on a circle

[Puzzled3d (Puzzled)]

I am trying to make a GUI that takes the direction from a Player to a point, in this case an enemy, and turns it into a position on a radial GUI. This also would include rotating the indicator to face where it would be in world space.

The best example of what I am talking about is the detection system in Entry Point by Cishshato

[Plasmacticus]

i think this should be helpful

How to check if an object is within an angle of the front of a player’s characters?

The first thing you want to do is to work out which direction the player’s character is facing: local Facing = Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector Then you want to get the direction from your character to the object: local Vector = (Object.Position - Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position).unit Then you can get the angle between those two vectors using the equation:

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What this means is that the cosine of the angle between vectors u …

[Puzzled3d (Puzzled)]

Thanks! I used roblox’s formula to convert it into a point on a circle and it works.

[Puzzled3d (Puzzled)]

i have decided to make this a seperate post