Find closest player from myself

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#1

Hi i need to find the first player instance to myself and i do not have a clue how
there is probably a answer to this already i cant find so help will be greatly apricated
thank you

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#2

Use distancefromcharacter , works for me

#4

Iterate through all characters and calculate the magnitude between your HRP and theirs. Then get the character with the closest distance.

#5

You need to set a distance to inf first with a closepart value to nil
then use for loop on a part’s folder then check if the part is near to us, so if it’s near, we gonna set a closet distance and a closetpart to that part, now wait for the loop to done then you finally got it

#8 
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	if v.Character and not Player.Character then
		
		local Distance = Player:DistanceFromCharacter(v.Character.Humanoid)
	end
end

Not sure if this works i havent tested it

#9

You can use magnitude since it can be used to calculate the distance between two positions and would work in many other instances.

(Position1 - Position2).magnitude -- Distance from two positions

#10

Indirectly it does have that as a rule:
About the Scripting Support category

If you can’t provide code, provide methods and other things you’ve tried, as a bare minimum.

But I do think the OP could’ve elaborated on the issue a little more, or at least showed some more effort.

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#11

thanks for telling me. ill delete that reply.

#12

No need! Many people forget to read the first pinned post.

#13 
local PlayerDistances = { }
local LocalPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer

for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
    if player ~= LocalPlayer then
        local Character = player.Character
        local HumanoidRootPart = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
        local LocalPlayerCharacter = LocalPlayer.Character
        local LocalPlayerHumRootPart = LocalPlayerCharacter:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
        
       local Magnitude = (HumanoidRootPart.Position - LocalPlayerHumRootPart.Position ).Magnitude
       table.insert(PlayerDistances, Magnitude)
    end
end

print(math.min(unpack(PlayerDistances)))
#14

I need help with scripting is that what scripting support is for?

#16

What if you dont know and just need help

#17

then you should try to atleast learn the basics of lua, watch some tutorials or read the dev hub

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