How do I find how faraway a player is from a part?

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#1

I made a peace of code to get ever part in the workspace and loop through them all, but how would I see how far away the player is from a part if it has a certain name?

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#2

Subtract one part’s position from another part’s position and then read its .Magnitude property

local part1 = workspace.Part1
local part2 = humanoidRootPart -- character's humanoid root part
local distance = (part1 - part2).Magnitude
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#3

You could use magnitude to check the length between both objects’ positions.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local Object = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("EnemyPart")
local Distance = (Object.Position - player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude

print(Distance)
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#4

This code can work if you want to repeatedly get the closest part with a specific name in a loop.

local PS = game:GetService("Players")

local player = PS.LocalPlayer
local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HRP = char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local targetNames = {"swisscheese", "zombie", "robloxguy"}

local function GetClosestPart()
	local target = nil
	local distance = nil

	for i,v:BasePart in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") and table.find(targetNames, v.Name) then
			local mag = player:DistanceFromCharacter(v.Position)
			
			if target and distance then
				if mag < distance then
					target = v
					distance = mag
				end
			else
				target = v
				distance = mag
			end
		end
	end
	
	return target, distance
end

If you’re dealing with players, it’s better to use player:DistanceFromCharacter() instead of .Magnitude because it is more performant and less intensive.

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