How to find player closest to the mouse and reference them

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#1

Hello! So here’s a little background information. I’m trying to make a move where the closest person to the mouse in a certain range, will get effects done to them. Such as lift them into the air and slam them into the ground. I’m not sure where to start or how to reference the player that the mouse is closest too. I’d really appreciate if you’d help me.

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#2

Is this in a local script or server script?

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#3

use mouse.Hit.p and the players Position with .Magnitude. This would be the best way. ex:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = plr:GetMouse()

mouse.Button1Click:Connect(function()
    local closestplr
    local closestpos
    for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
        if v.Character then
            local mag = (mouse.Hit.p - v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.Position).Magnitude
            if  mag < closestpos then
                closestplr = v
                closestpos = mag
            end
        end
    end
    
    print(closestplr.Name)
end)
#4

Theres no code that actually does anything atm. Im not exactly sure where to put anything right now lol

#5

Im working on something that might work but i need to know will this in a local script or server script

#6

If i used that, how would i be able to reference the player that im aiming at or close to aiming at?

#7

I would start off with a LocalScript and as @Kaid3n22 said use mouse.Hit.p and then compare it to other players positions using Magnitude

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#8

Alright, how would I compare the positions? I’m not asking for spoon feeding just don’t know how to do it at all.

#9

@TJimt Suggested a local script, so ill go with that

#10

this might work im not sure tho

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

local maxDistance = 10

while true do
	wait(1)
	local nearestPlayer, nearestDistance
	for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local character = player.Character
		local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(mouse.Hit.p)
		if not character or 
			distance > maxDistance or
			(nearestDistance and distance >= nearestDistance)
		then
			continue
		end
		nearestDistance = distance
		nearestPlayer = player
	end
	print("The nearest player is ", nearestPlayer)
end

MAKE SURE TO PUT IN A LOCAL SCRIPT

#11

Just gonna point this out, you forgot the () after :GetMouse

#12

Kind of what I need, I just need it to be the closest person to my mouse.

#13

Oh shoot well @majaed06 make sure to do that

#14

I Added a script to my first post, that should work for what you need you just need to mash it in with your other stuff.

#15

I don’t know how lol, thats my main problem atm. I don’t know how to reference to closest person to my mouse.

#16

Your best bet would either be to loop through every player and check if Player.Character and if so compare the distance between the mouse’s position and their humanoidrootparts position. An alternative to looping through every player would be to create a table containing every players character.

How .Magnitude works is you can do for example (Vector3.new(1,0,0) - Vector3.new(0,0,0)).Magnitude and that would be equal to 1 as it is getting the difference between the two positions and then returning the distance all in one number.

#17

the nearestPlayer variable in the script I posted above is the player that is closest to the mouse’s position

#18

Alright, I’ll see if it works. I’ll make sure to let you know.

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#19

Do you know how you’re gonna start these effects. Like, does a certain key have to pressed or the user clicks their mouse for the nearest player to the mouse have an effect to them?

#20

Yes, when the player hits the key “E” it’ll pretty much lift the player closest to the mouse into the air and slam them into the ground. Finding and referencing that player is my issue right now.

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