Hello, I’ve been at this for like 3 hours now and no matter what I cannot do it so I gave in and I’m asking people for help and I do not like doing it but I have too at this point so
The problem I am having is that I’m trying to make a system where it’ll place objects around the map but if a area is already taken it will not place it there if its 50 studs away like this
If CheckIfFarEnough(Start, Last, 50) it should return true if start and last are 50 studs away from one a other.
This is what I have so far
local function CheckIfFarEnough(Start: Vector3, Last: Vector3, MinSpacing: number)
local _CloseX = (Start.X - Last.X)
local _CloseZ = (Start.Z - Last.Z)
if _CloseX >= MinSpacing and _CloseZ >= MinSpacing then
return true
else
return false
end
end
This is where I’m stuck and I’m not even sure if my CheckIfFar is even right I am not good with math at all
for i=1, _Amount do
table.insert(PickedAreas, __init__.GetRandomWorldArea())
end
for First, v in pairs(PickedAreas) do
if PickedAreas[First - 1] then
if CheckIfFarEnough(PickedAreas[First - 1], v, 50) then
MakeDebugPart(PickedAreas[First])
end
end
end
Your first code was wrong calculated but i fixed that for you.
local function CheckIfFarEnough(Start: Vector3, Last: Vector3, MinSpacing: number): boolean
local distance = (Start - Last).Magnitude
return distance >= MinSpacing
end
and on the second code you Provided i added Several things.
i’ve added an table with vector3 areas to check if the area is blocked by an already existing area.
i’ve also added an MaxAttempts value to have an maximum attempts value. (if you doesnt it would count like FOREVER)
local placedSpots: {Vector3} = {}
local MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_SPOT = 100
for i = 1, _Amount do
local spotPlaced = false
for attempt = 1, MAX_ATTEMPTS_PER_SPOT do
local candidatePos = __init__.GetRandomWorldArea()
local isClear = true
for _, existingSpot in ipairs(placedSpots) do
if not CheckIfFarEnough(candidatePos, existingSpot, _MinSpacing) then
isClear = false
break
end
end
if isClear then
table.insert(placedSpots, candidatePos)
MakeDebugPart(candidatePos)
spotPlaced = true
break
end
end
end
