How would I calculate this?

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#1

Hello everyone!

I’m making a rope grapple for my group;

And I need the length of the rope to be enough based on where the player is standing, to where they click. However, I’m lacking the idea of how I would go about scripting that. Any ideas?

Thanks in advanced!

#2

What do you mean by “enough” ?

You can get the straight distance between two points using
(posA - posB).magnitude
And you could roughly add some leeway by adding a bit, like 5.

#3

Well, say I click from 50 studs away. I want the length of the rope to be perfectly straight. Same if I were to say click from 30 studs away.

#4

Yeah, just subtract the two positions of the ends of the ropes, then use .magnitude to get the length of that vector.
local ropeLength = (attachment1.WorldPosition-attachment2.WorldPosition).magnitude

#5

Thanks a ton! I’ve never used Magnitude before. I’ll look into it, seems to give me a good read.
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