How to make boat shoot nearest other boat

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1

What do you want to achieve: I want to make a boat (its a union) that just shoots the nearest boat if its named a certain thing.

What is the issue?: I can’t find out how to find the nearest part, how would I get it?

So I’m making a boat that is a Union, it shoots the nearest boat if its name is Boat.
Please keep in mind, i want the boat to shoot only OTHER boats, and not the boat the script is inside of.

local part1 = -- i dont know

local part2= script.Parent

while true do

wait()

local magnitude = (part1.Position - part2.Position).magnitude

if magnitude < 50 then

--nothing here yet

wait()

end

end
2

You can use a simple minimum algorithm

local allBoats = --get all boats in a table
local min = 50 --also serves as maximum shooting range
local target = nil
for i,boat in next, allBoats do
    if theBoatThatsShooting ~= boat then --check if same boat
        local distance = (theBoatThatsShooting.Position-boat.Position).Magnitude --distance between two
        if distance < min then --if distance less than minimum distance so far
           min = distance --set new minimum so far
           target = boat --keep setting target for minimum so far until you reach the end 
        end
    end
end
--target variable is the boat to shoot, if no boat in range its nil
3

I’ll try this, thanks, It’ll help alot in my game.

4

Theres gonna be tons of boats, like they will be cloned. Is it possible to get every boat in a folder into the table?

5

folder:GetChildren() will give you a table of everything in the folder

6

Thanks a bundle, and i’m guessing theboatthatsshooting is just script.Parent?
(PS; this script is inside the boat)

7

Hey, sorry to bother but it says this.
Workspace.BoatsAndMore.inhabitnpc.Boat.Script:7: attempt to perform arithmetic (sub) on Vector3 and nil
I have no idea what this means.
heres the rest of my code

local allBoats = {workspace.BoatsAndMore:GetChildren()}
local min = 70 --also serves as maximum shooting range
local target = nil
local theBoatThatsShooting = script.Parent
for i,boat in next, allBoats do
	if theBoatThatsShooting ~= boat then --check if same boat
		local distance = (theBoatThatsShooting.Position-boat.Position).Magnitude --distance between two
		if distance < min then --if distance less than minimum distance so far
			min = distance --set new minimum so far
			target = boat
			target:Destroy()
		end
	end
end
8

You dont need the {} around the getchildren, it makes a table in and of itself
Also yes its the scripts boat