Finding The Nearest Part To A Main Part

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#1

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I Want To Find The Closest Part To Main Part To Pathfind To
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    I Dont Know How To Do It And I Cant Find Anything
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    Ive Tried Looking Around But I Cant Find What I Need
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local Char = script.Parent
repeat
	wait(0.5)
	local AllParts = workspace.Food:GetChildren()
	for i, IndividualPart in pairs(AllParts) do
		local Distance = (Char.Position - IndividualPart.Position).magnitude
		print(Distance, IndividualPart)
	end
until false

Thanks For Any Help

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#2

Wouldn’t the code that you provided work though?

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#3

I Need To Find The Absolue Closest Part That Just Finds A Part And Tells Me The Distance And Its Name

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#4

It Might Work And I Dont Realize it tho just tested it it doesent

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#5

I see. Maybe something like this should work?

local greatestDistance
local farthestPart
	for i, IndividualPart in pairs(AllParts) do
		local Distance = (Char.Position - IndividualPart.Position).magnitude
		if Distance > greatestDistance then
                     greatestDistance = Distance
                     farthestPart = IndividualPart
                end
	end

farthestPart blah blah code
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#6

The Problem With That Is Distance Is A Vector3 Value

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#7

Try using .Magnitude. I don’t know if it matters what the capital letter is though. BUT magnitude actually returns a number, not vector3

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#8

The Magnitude member of a Vector3 returns the size as a single number.

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#9

Maybe, but I’m sure that if you use the (Pos1 - Pos2).Magnitude it returns the distance. In fact, I just used it yesterday!

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#10

tried your code didnt work but i might have an idea

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#11

Is there any errors? Or anything? In the output I mean

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#12

ill tell you it i thought i had a solution
its that you cant compare a number to nil

MB

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#13

Oh yeah. It has to be
local greatestDistance = 0
Just add that to the top thing where it says
local greatestDistance
And it should work

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#14

Just so ya know this is backwards i need closest distance to pathfind to

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#15

Ohhhhh whoops
Change the Distance > greatestDistance
into a <

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#16

i alr fliped it and fixed it Tysm For the help im not verry flamiliar w/ i loops

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