Getting the distance between two parts without looping

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Hello, so I’m currently working on a Press E to open door script to practice my scripting, and I was wondering if there was any way to get the players distance from the door without constantly using a while loop. I have tried searching it up and most topics I saw say to use Region3 but I was wondering if there’s a way to use Magnitude.

  • Any answers/Help are very appreciated. :relaxed:
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local distance = (door.Position - character.Position).Magnitude

This will return the distance in studs from the door to the character

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I already know how to do that, I’m trying to get the distance from the player without looping but thx for your reply. :slight_smile:

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If this only happens while pressing E, then just do the check when they press. This removes the need for a while loop.

Example pseudocode:

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
    if they pressed e and are near the part then
        the code
    end
end)
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I’m trying to use the ContextActionService not UserInputService. I’m trying to make sure the character is less than 10 studs away from the door then I’m binding the E key to the Opendoor function.

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Then just do the check within the bound function and just change it to work with context action service? I don’t see why you want to use a loop?

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OMG I’m soooo dumb. Thx for making me realize this :slight_smile:. This is what happens when I don’t get enough ZZZ.

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