How to get the positions in tiles in a part

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#1

I was working on A* path finding until I thought of a problem, i need to get the positions in tiles in a part.

So take the reference image as an example of a 5X5 part, so I want to get the positions of each red dot, but I can only figure out how to get the positions of the center and the 4 corners.

I tried making each block 1X1 but it’s not a great solution for my game I’m currently working on. Any recommendations on how should I code it to make it possible for me to get the positions of every red dots? Thanks?

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#2

If you have all the tiles as seperate parts you could do something like this:

Tiles = {}

for _, tile in pairs(game.Workspace.Tiles:GetChildren()) --Change the bit within the brackets to be where the tiles are
    table.insert(Tiles, tile.Position)
end
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#3

Use for loops to iterate over every X, Y and Z coordinate. E.g.:

local TILE_SIZE = 1

function getTileCoordinatesInPart(part)
    local coordinates = {}
    
    -- local corner1 = Vector3.zero --Part center
    --     - part.Size / 2 --To corner
    --     + Vector3.one * 0.5 * TILE_SIZE --To tile center
    
    local corner1 = -part.Size / 2 + Vector3.one * 0.5 * TILE_SIZE
    local corner2 =  part.Size / 2 - Vector3.one * 0.5 * TILE_SIZE
    
    for x = corner1.X, corner2.X, TILE_SIZE do
        for y = corner1.Y, corner2.Y, TILE_SIZE do
            for z = corner1.Z, corner2.Z, TILE_SIZE do
                local coordinate = Vector3.new(x, y, z)
                table.insert(coordinates, part.CFrame:PointToWorldSpace(coordinate))
            end
        end
    end
    
    return coordinates
end
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#4

Worked, tysm! Really appreciate it

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