Secuirty Alarm Contact Senor

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

I wish to make like a security alarm door/window contact sensor. So when the magnet is x ammount of studs away from the other part it sets a block of code off. Otherwis eit just keeps checking if it opened.

[MysterySoulESPYT (dud)]

yeah?? whats the problem?
u can use magnitude for that

[GenXMyth]

My noobish way of doing it would be to just use TouchEnded so if the particular parts aren’t touching anymore then off goes the alarm. Or if you wanted it a certain distance apart then make an invisible part in between and use that for the sensor:

part = script.Parent
part.TouchEnded:Connect(function(otherpart)
	if otherpart.Name == "Sensor" then -- Condition
		print("Alarm set off")
	end
end)

Of course the condition could be anything. Attribute, Tags…whatever

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

what is magnitude? Like what is that?

[MysterySoulESPYT (dud)]

the distance between 2 positions

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

explain i am so confused what do you mean

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

All I get is it is distance of 2 objects but like can you epxlian it? @MysterySoulESPYT

[MysterySoulESPYT (dud)]

lets say i have 2 vectors

Vectors
My1stVector = Vector3.new(0,0,1)
My2ndVector =Vector3.new(0,0-,1)

Getting magnitude
(My1stVector - My2ndVector).Magnitude – should be 3 i think

U can check docs to learn more about that
also, if u want someone to do that for u, u could go to talents hub or something like that
U cant tell people to make entire scripts for u

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

i think i get it thx for ur help

[jaydeniamrich2 (aphillar)]

local AlarmValue = false
local Magnet = script.Parent.Parent.Magnet
local Main = script.Parent

local Distance = (Main.Position - Magnet.Position).Magnitude

print(Distance)

if Distance >= 10 then
	AlarmValue = true
	print(AlarmValue)
	
	Main.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
	
else if Distance <= 10 then
		AlarmValue = false
		print(AlarmValue)
		
		Main.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Institutional white")
	end
end

It works!

[MysterySoulESPYT (dud)]

good job!
i recommend watching other topics or seeing the docs before posting a topic because it may already have the solutions u are wanting