How to calculate min distance between parts

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#1

How to calculate min distance between parts? No from midpoint to midpoint, but from closest to closest point? Actually Im more interested to calc the smallest distance from given point A to Wedge closest point! Sound very difficult. Ufff

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Getting the points for the minimum distance between two parts
#2

Sircfenner has answerd this here: Finding the closest Vector3 point on a part from the character - #3 by sircfenner

Using his solution, you can do:

local p1 = ClosestPointOnPart(part1, part2.Position)
local p2 = ClosestPointOnPart(part2, part1.Position)
local minDistance = (p1 - p2).magnitude
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#4

Btw I think this works only with rectangular parts.

#5

No. This uses vector positions to calculate the distance between the objects. Doesn’t take into account the mesh or part.

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