Help with finding the nearest part

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#1

I have made an egg hatching system that needs to determine the nearest player to the egg so it can work. However, it only either prints the name of only 1 of the eggs or just prints “Cannot hatch”. Please help, I’m open to any suggestions!
Script:

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
		if canHatch == true and player.Character ~= nil then
			local nearestEgg
			local plrPos = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
			
			for i, v in pairs(Eggs:GetChildren()) do
				if nearestEgg == nil then
					nearestEgg = v
				else
					if (plrPos - v.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude < (v.PrimaryPart.Position - plrPos).Magnitude then
						nearestEgg = v
					end
				end
			end			
			print(nearestEgg)
		else
			print("Cannot hatch")
		end
	end
end)
#2

Use the debugger to step through the code and see the different variables step by step. You should discover that some variables don’t have the values you expected, indicating where the bug might be. It’s easy to guess though, because the only way “Cannot hatch” can print is if canHatch == true and player.Character ~= nil fails. Since the character probably exists, you must be setting canHatch wrong somewhere else.

#3

canHatch works, it’s just that i made a cooldown for it so that you can’t hatch over and over again. It’s the position that’s not working.

#4

you’re compaing one thing to itself. (a - b).Magnitude always equals (b - a).Magnitude. You should compare the distance from v to the player to the distance from the nearestEgg to the player.

#5

Would I write that like

(v.PrimaryPart.Position-plrPos).Magntude
#6 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer

local Folder = workspace:WaitForChild("Folder")

local function FindChildClosestToPlayer()
	local ClosestChild, ClosestDistance = nil, math.huge
	for _, Child in ipairs(Folder:GetChildren()) do
		local Distance = Player:DistanceFromCharacter(Child.Position)
		if Distance < ClosestDistance then
			ClosestChild = Child
			ClosestDistance = Distance
		end
	end
	
	if ClosestChild then
		return ClosestChild, ClosestDistance
	end
end

local Child, Distance = FindChildClosestToPlayer()

Here’s an example script of how you’d go about finding the closest instance of a folder of instances to a player’s character.

#7

I am also having a similar problem.
@Forummer

local function findNearestEnemy()
	getTargets()
	
	for i,v in pairs(targets:GetChildren()) do
		local distance = (script.Parent.hemalurgicSpike.Position - v.Position).magnitude
		if previousDistance > distance then
			target = v
			previousDistance = distance
			target.Name = "TARGET"
		end
	end
end

For some reason, both the target’s names are TARGET