Detect any blocks or models near the player

[crisgamer3YT (Taitansito)]

hello scripters

I’m trying to detect the blocks close to the player, but I’m not talking about a specific block, I’m talking about any block, it can be a part or a model, I have no idea how to do it and thanks in advance

something like this

[me7474]

set up a hitbox. Take a part and weld it to the player, set it too massless, make it transparent. Then just use .Touched.

[Com3t_06 (Comet)]

iterate over everything in workspace, then check the distance between the part and the player.

function checkClose(plr, maxDist)
    closeBlocks = []
    for i,v in pairs(game.workspace:GetDescendants()) do
        local pos = nil
        if v:IsA("BasePart") then
            pos = v.Position
        end
        if v:IsA("Model") then
            if v.PrimaryPart then
                pos = v.PrimaryPart.Position
            else
                pos = v:GetChildren()[1].Position --get a part within the model to be the reference point
            end
        end
        if pos then
            if (plr.Character.Position - pos).Magnitude < maxDist then
                table.insert(closeBlocks, v)
            end
        end
    end
    return closeBlocks
end

Something like this would be called every time you look for nearby parts, it returns a list of parts within a certain distance from the player.

[CrimsonForce (Kyle)]

I believe you can just use GetPartBoundsInRadius and filter out the player’s character so it detects everything but the player.

[me7474]

this works also! depends on if you want a physical hitbox or not.

[domboss37 (TSL)]

I was thinking about recommending this but I didn’t for 1 reason:

It might cause performance issues, constantly looping through everything in the workspace. Especially if it’s a large game/map.

[crisgamer3YT (Taitansito)]

If at the time I thought the same, I’m still trying things

[crisgamer3YT (Taitansito)]

I already found the answer, I post this in case someone has the same question, the solution was the following

local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local plr = Player.LocalPlayer
local chr = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local rootPart = chr:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")


while task.wait(0.25) do
 local extents = 8 * Vector3.one -- 8 is Radius
 local region = Region3.new(rootPart.Position - extents, rootPart.Position + extents)
 local np = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3WithIgnoreList(region,{character,camera}) --Save nearby objects in a list

 for _, p in np do -- check nearby objects one by one and print them
   print(p)
 end

end