How to make a tycoon game “find the closest button”

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#1

I’ve seen a couple tycoon games implement this but I have no idea how. I’ve searched but haven’t found anything yet so any ideas would be helpful.

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In this particular game, the red arrows are animated and moving towards the button.

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#2

So do you want feedback/ideas from your game or rate it?

#3

If I had to make a guess, when you press a button to activate viewing of buyable objects,

  • It loops through all available objects that can be bought
  • It then raycasts each part to your humanoidrootpart and creates a beam with that arrow texture that leads towards the button
  • It then deletes it since it’ll be updated next frame until you press the button again to stop showing
#4

The game @jstackman shown a screenshot of is not his, it’s to show the thing he wants to recreate for his I believe

#5

Oh alright I am not sure what’s he asking for then well let me read his sentence again.

#6

He’s asking how he can recreate the feature in the game he’s shown to make it so that beams appear from the torso/humanoidrootpart that lead the buttons he can buy to progress in the tycoon

#7

Will so he is asking for the coding/script for droppers and the conveyor

#8

Not exactly, he’s just asking how he could code it so whenever you press a guibutton, beams appear from the humanoidrootpart of the player’s character that lead to buttons that the player can purchase to keep building the tycoon

#9

Well why does he needs it it’s kinda useless unless there is newer players that are younger

#10

Honestly I played tycoons since I was 8 years old.

#11

We don’t usually want to complain about if features are unneeded unless they’re asking for feedback, in this case they just wanna know how to make a feature like that, not if it’s needed or not.

#12

Ok I am go on a different forum

#13

Ah, thank you! I didn’t think of that. A beam is probably how it’s done, I’ll give that a try.

@supersheep9000 My tycoon game is quite large and has rebirths so it can be useful if you can’t find a button.

#14

I was able to find this post once I understood that it was a beam: https://scriptinghelpers.org/questions/83462/make-a-player-part-beam

Thanks again!

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