Finding total distance of multiple part in a table?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
,
1

So I’m trying to find the total distance between multiple part in a table as shown below.

	local path = {}
	local currentPoint = spawnPart
	
	--select a path
	while #currentPoint:GetChildren() > 0 do
		table.insert(path, currentPoint:GetFullName())
		local nextPoint = currentPoint:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #currentPoint:GetChildren())]
		currentPoint = nextPoint
	end

	--calculate total path length
	local totalPathLength = 0
	for i = 1, #path - 1 do
		totalPathLength = totalPathLength + (path[i + 1] - path[i]).Magnitude
	end

The problem is the path[i+1] will return nil on the last one. The solution that I came up with is just to pcall() that part but I think there’s a better solution or method to do this…?

2

what are you trying to achieve there? more information is needed honestly

3

Trying to find the total length of the distance between each part
image

4

This image should be clearer. I’m trying to find the distance of all the part combined
image

5

I don’t see anything wrong with the code, even the problem you gave doesn’t seem to exist since you went to #path-1??

6

GetFullName returns a string not an instance so you can’t use it to get the distance between two part instances.
table.insert(path, currentPoint) --insert part into array instead

7

This topic was automatically closed 14 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.