Math.huge crashing Roblox Studio

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As of recently, whenever I have tried to call math.huge within a variable, my Roblox Studio would crash immediately after running the game.

I can confirm this as I have replaced the math.huge with a normal number like “10000”, ran the game and it didn’t crash. It also immediately crashed once again shortly after I put math.huge back.

What happened to math.huge? I sharply remember how it didn’t used to crash my Roblox Studio before. If you have answers it would be much appreciated.

2

Can you give me an example script where this happens?

This doesn’t sound like a math.huge issue, as math.huge is usually just a value, but an issue somewhere else that uses math.huge. I’m certain that Roblox did not change math.huge out of the blue.

3

Are you calling the variable inside a loop?

4

math.huge just returns the number (or concept) inf

So even if you do this?

local Ex = math.huge
print(Ex) --> "inf"
6

The initial variable is empty, but the variable would be set to math.huge every 0.1 seconds in a while true do loop yes.

(It’s pretty confusing as I have run this script without crashing before, so it would be pretty weird if all of a sudden putting this in a loop is the reason it’s crashing)

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Used it for this simple pathfinding script:

local collection = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local zombie = script.Parent
local zombieHRP = zombie.PrimaryPart
local humanoid = zombie:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local myTag = collection:GetTags(zombie)[1]

local currentTarget
local closestDistance

while true do
	task.wait(.1)
	closestDistance = math.huge
	currentTarget = nil
	local inRange = workspace:GetPartBoundsInRadius(zombieHRP.Position, closestDistance)
	for i,v in ipairs(inRange) do
		if not v.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then continue end
		if collection:GetTags(v.Parent)[1] == myTag then continue end
		local distance = (v.Parent.PrimaryPart.Position - zombieHRP.Position).Magnitude
		if distance < closestDistance then
			closestDistance = distance
			currentTarget = v.Parent
		end
	end
	if currentTarget then
		humanoid:MoveTo(currentTarget.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
	else
		humanoid:MoveTo(zombieHRP.Position)
	end
end
8

Use code format blocks!

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9

Just do closestDistance == nil or distance < closestDistance

10

As of now, math.huge no longer crashes. The issue has solved itself.

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