Finding the degree from one part to another

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. **What do you want to achieve? Finding the degree from one part to another.

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I want to find the angle in degrees from the origin part to the red yellow green and blue parts. How would I script this?

  1. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I tried a couple of solutions but they would come up with inaccurate results
#2
  1. Get the vector from origin to point A.
  2. Get the vector from origin to point B.
  3. Use vectorA:Angle(vectorB).
    4, Convert the result to degrees with math.deg()
local a = workspace.a.Position-workspace.b.Position 
local b = workspace.a.Position-workspace.c.Position 
print(math.deg(a:Angle(b))) -- 90
#3

MB I messed up in communicating, lets say that north of the origin is 0 or 360 degrees, what is the world angle of the origin part to the green part. I wrote 45 degrees because that’s roughly what it should be

#4

So you mean, similar to a compass?

Here you go

local referenceDirection = Vector3.new(1, 0, 0) -- Reference direction along the x-axis

-- Function to calculate the angle in degrees between the reference direction and another vector
local function calculateAngle(origin : Vector3, target : Vector3)
	-- Calculate the angle in radians between the referenceDirection and the vector
	local angleRad = referenceDirection:Angle(vector - origin)
	return math.deg(angleRad) -- Convert to degrees
end
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