If you’re familiar with Tower Of Hell, there is a height counter thing, and it shows who is the highest. I want to do this but with distance, how can this be accomplished. The only thing I don’t know how to do is calculate how far they are between the start and the end, and then put that onto a frame. Thanks in advance.
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Sorry for being a little unclear, but instead of vertical the frame is horizontal.
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This is quite simple, first get the y of the character position, then get the position of the end of the tower (the top), the divide the top of the tower positions Y, and the character positions Y. To get how far the player is up the tower.
A code example:
local char = (the character)
local topPos = Vector3.new() –– Position of the top of the tower
local dis = topPos.Y/char.PrimaryPart.Position.Y
print(dis) –– this will give you a percentage and then you can move the players icon on the tower gui relative to the percentage```
I made this on a phone, so I haven’t tested it out, and If you need more help just ask.
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I meant distance, sorry if you didn’t understand that ( so left to right )
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Is the tower vertical or horizontal?
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Its not a Tower, and I am not making a tower of hell game. I was just referencing the bar on the side that tracks how far the player is.
Imagine there are two points, and I want to see how far the player is between those two points and put that position on a frame. (From left to right)
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Oh, okay, in that case. What direction is the obby/thing you’re making going in, like x/y/z.
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Ill make an example for you. It’ll take some time.
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Is there a way to make it so that it doesn’t matter, I feel like its kind of irrelevant but for your sake we can say z
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Okay, so just change my code from Y to Z. That’ll give a percentage then on your gui you can put that percentage for the thing that shows where the player is at. Like the position of the gui object.
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How would I move the players image on the frame according to the dis variable
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Udim2.new(), put the percentage on the x axis.
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How would I scale that? Like this? :
playerThing.Position = UDim2.new(frame.AbsoluteSize.X/dis,frame.Y)
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“playerThing.Position = UDim2.new(frame.AbsoluteSize.X/dis, 0, frame.Y, 0)”
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It is saying that X is not a member of a part’s position?? Fixed: oops
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Any clue to why this isn’t working? NO is printing every frame.
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local frame = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("DistanceGui").Frame
local function check(name)
for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if v.Name == name then continue end
return true
end
end
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
for i, v in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local char = v.Character
local dis = game.Workspace.End.Position.X/char.PrimaryPart.Position.X
if not frame:FindFirstChild(v.Name) then
local userId = v.UserId
local thumbType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
local thumbSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
local content, isReady = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(userId, thumbType, thumbSize)
local imageLabel = Instance.new("ImageLabel")
imageLabel.Parent = frame
imageLabel.Image = content
imageLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 420, 0, 420)
imageLabel.Name = v.Name
imageLabel.Position = UDim2.new(frame.AbsoluteSize.X/dis, 0, frame.AbsolutePosition.Y + 1, 0)
end
for i, v in pairs(frame:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("ImageLabel") then
local bool = check(v.Name)
if bool then
print("NO")
v:Destroy()
else
v.Position = UDim2.new(frame.AbsoluteSize.X/dis, 0, frame.AbsolutePosition.Y + 1, 0)
end
end
end
end
end)
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Fixed the no thing, but now the icon just doesn’t come up at all.
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How I would approach the problem is
Find distance is player (humanoidrootpart.position-part.position).Magnitude
1.local a = Find distance to part A
2. local b = Find distance to part B
3. local percent = a/b
4. the UI should accept a percent in either scale or offset forgot which
edit: sorry this is exzact thing the other helper said sorry didn’t read…
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This doesn’t solve the problem of the icon not even showing up.
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So I won’t help you out exactly how you want it, since I want you to learn, but I wrote a script that has some comments in it to explain why it works, but I want you to apply this to your own code without having to have your hand held throughout the whole thing. However if you do need help you can ask here too.
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local Distance = script.Parent.Distance
local Main = script.Parent.Main
local AD = Distance.AbsoluteSize
local AM = Main.AbsoluteSize
local p1 = workspace:WaitForChild("0")
local p2 = workspace:WaitForChild("1")
local pDist = (p2.Position-p1.Position).Magnitude -- Getting the distance between start and end goal
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local root = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
rs.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local plrDist = plr:DistanceFromCharacter(p1.Position) -- Getting the distance between player and start pos (this inverses the gui so that it moves fro left to right)
local percentage = (plrDist/pDist) -- gets percentage the player is from the end position
local XVal = math.clamp((AM.X + Main.AbsolutePosition.X) * (percentage),Main.AbsolutePosition.X,Main.AbsolutePosition.X + AM.X) -- clamps the UI's position so that it doesn't go out of bounds
Distance.Position = UDim2.new(0,XVal,0,Main.AbsolutePosition.Y) -- setting positions
end)
All this script does is calculate the distance between the start and end, and the character and start. Then I divide the two together to get a percentage of sorts, it clamps the values from 0 - 1, which helps a ton when working with UI. I set the UI code in a specific way that it should work with my format but it would work with changes made to its positions and sizes. (ignore that rant if you don’t care) anywho, here’s it working, try to compare and contrast and if you can’t, ask later. Also this won’t work fully as intended, there are slight bugs, but I encourage you to engage with them and figure em out. Enjoy!
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