Magnitude not working?

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#1

Hello,

I’ve been working with magnitude recently to make a Leap Of Faith affect from Assassin Creed, so when I started writing the script I had to check the Z and the Y axis between the player and the hay stacks to make sure the player is above the hay stacks on a high spot, but this is when I ran into this problem magnitude is not working with 1 Axis nor all axis and I’m confused to why this is happening, any help is appreciated.

Hay stacks folder:
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Error:image

Script:
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local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

repeat wait() until character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

local Count = 0

-- Checking if the player is running, crouching, etc
local function CheckBehavior()
	local folder = character.Behavior
	for i, v in ipairs(folder:GetChildren()) do
		if v:IsA("BoolValue") then
			if v.Value == false then
				Count += 1
			end
		end
	end
end

-- Loading Animations
local LoFS = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.LoFStart)
local LoFM = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.LoFMid)
local LoFF = character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.LoFFinish)

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(inpt, UPE)
	if UPE then return end
	
	if inpt.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
		CheckBehavior()
		if Count == 4 then
			Count = 0
			print("epic")
			-- Looping through the hays and comparing positions
			for i, v in ipairs(game.Workspace.Hays:GetChildren()) do
				-- Getting the magnitude between the player and the hay stack
				local UpMag = (player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y - v.Position.Y)
				local DisMag = (player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Z - v.Position.Z)
				print(DisMag, " Non magnitude")
				print(DisMag.magnitude, " with magnitude") -- Error here
				print(UpMag.magnitude) -- Error here
				
				if DisMag.magnitude <= 30 and UpMag.magnitude >= 20 then
					print("Check")
					local Root = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
					local Info = TweenInfo.new(3,Enum.EasingStyle.Quint,Enum.EasingDirection.Out)
					character.Humanoid.Jump = true
					-- Pulling the player to the hay stack
					game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(Root, Info, {Position = v.Position}):Play()
					print("Started")
				end
			end
		end
	end
end)

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#2

You can only use magnitude on Vector3 Values. Since you’re getting only a part of the Vector3 values when indexing UpMag and DisMag, it’s just a number, hence attempt to index number with magnitude.

local StartPoint = Vector3.new(0,0,0)
local EndPoint = Vector3.new(100,100,100)

local Magnitude = (EndPoint - StartPoint).magnitude
#3

player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y - v.Position.Y
The Y values are plain numbers and what this returns is also a plain number.
UpMag.magnitude
There’s no magnitude of a number. If you’re trying to get the absolute value instead (disregarding negativity), you can use math.abs(num).

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#4

How will i interpret math.abs() in my script

#5

math.abs(UpMag) returns UpMag if it’s positive and -UpMag if it’s negative, i.e. the returned value is always positive.

#6

Yes but that will get the absolute number of all axis combined wouldn’t it?

#7

You’re extracting single axes by indexing the vectors with Y and Z. Plain numbers don’t have any further properties / behaviour defined, they’re raw byte data so to say.

#8

So in this case I’ll do this right?

local upmag = (math.abs(rootpart.Position.Y) - math.abs(v.Position.Y))

and it’ll be like magnitude but without using magnitude