I want to be able to detect if a part is infront or behind the player, as i’ve made a part-detecting script which basically finds the closest part to the player.
The script also detects parts behind the player, which I don’t want.
local Position_Contain = {}
for Index,Child in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
table.insert(Position_Contain,Index,(Child.Position - Core.Position).Magnitude)
end
for Index,Child in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
if (Core.Position - Child.Position).Magnitude == math.min(unpack(Position_Contain)) then
print(Child)
You can use Raycast for detecting if a part is infront of the player, then filter out the player’s character so it doesn’t consider the character a valid result
not gonna lie, i’ve tried to learn raycasting and it’s super confusing. do you have a video i could use by any chance? i feel like the dev forum overcomplicates alot of things
local function IsPartBehind(Character: Model, Part)
local hrp = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
if hrp then
return math.acos(hrp.CFrame.LookVector:Dot((Part.Position-hrp.Position).Unit)) > math.pi/2
end
end
Just pass the Character and the Part you will check.
I tested this code out and while it does return true if the player’s character is in front of the part,
it would return false sometimes if
The player was in front of the part and also facing the part’s front
And also return true if the player’c character was directly behind the part but facing the complete opposite of the part’s lookvector
math.acos is the inverse function of cosine. If you dont know what cosine is, there are many videos about it. Anyways, what it does (in my code) is take the angle of the Dot product between the two vectors.
ok, i’ve tried that code out, i’ve edited it slightly to be compatible with my code.
its not detecting any part for some reason anymore, im pretty sure its returning false. here’s my new code.
function GetDistanceFromChildren()
if canSwing == true then
local Position_Contain = {}
for Index,Child in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
table.insert(Position_Contain,Index,(Child.Position - Core.Position).Magnitude)
end
for Index,Child in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
if (Core.Position - Child.Position).Magnitude == math.min(unpack(Position_Contain)) then
print(Child)
if Core then
return math.acos(Core.CFrame.LookVector:Dot((Child.Position-Core.Position).Unit)) > math.pi/2
end
I’m not much of an advanced scripter, so I dont really understand this, could I have help putting this into my script to make it work please? Or help understanding how this really works. I’m horrible at math to be honest.
also, with this script i dont get any errors but it still doesn’t work.
Ok, let’s debug this. Debugging is the process of finding the error. Change your “IsBehind” code to this
if Core then
local angle = math.acos(Core.CFrame.LookVector:Dot((Child.Position-Core.Position).Unit))
print(angle/math.pi*180) -- Turn into degrees
return angle < math.pi/2
end
Can you tell me what it prints. Then can you send a screenshot of you and the part you are checking.
Well, if it prints properly then you should be good with this.
local isInfront = false
if Core then
local angle = math.acos(Core.CFrame.LookVector:Dot((Child.Position-Core.Position).Unit))
isInfront = angle < math.pi/2
if isInfront then
-- Do something if it's infront
else
-- Do something if it's behind
end
end
-- You can also access it outside the if statement
if isInfront then
-- Do something if it's infront
else
-- Do something if it's behind
end
by any chance would there be a way to make it so that it searches again for the closest object that IS infront of the player? and to make it so that it can still print objects next to the player?
GetPartBoundsInRadius: This will get you all parts within X of the player.
GetPartBoundsInBox: If you whitelist the parts from the radius test and look at the box in front of the player, the result is all parts in front of the player within X.
