Telekenisis How to control the length from players character to the mouse

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#1

Hi My goal here is to obtain a good working telekenisis tool. But i have one issue, i want to make the person that the player is controlling not to go far away far away from the player that is controlling him. Is there any way i can archive this?
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In my script, i am using a bodymover(Body Position) to set the position of the victim to the mouse position But for example: if i look up, the players goes all the way to the end of the world because of the mouse position.

#2

while seeing some code would be nice, you can simply use .Magnitude to get the distance, for example:

if (PlayerPos - MousePos).Magnitude >= SomeValue then
    StopHolding()
end
#3

Yea that makes it so that the victim stops moving if he passes the max magnitude even though i am still holding the key that controls the victim. What i want is to make the victim to be in the mouse’s position but near the character, not far away

#4

you can use a custom implementation of the mouse with raycasting, camera:viewportpointtoray, and userinputservice’s envents.
To get the mouse’s position we use InputChanged
next, we use ScreenPointToRay
Then we update it.
This is an example using a part in workspace:

function MovePlayerToPosition(Position)
	workspace.Part.Position = Position
end
local MaxDist = 50
local ignore = RaycastParams.new()
ignore.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
ignore.FilterDescendantsInstances = {workspace.Part}
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputChanged:Connect(function(Input, gpe)
	if Input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseMovement then
		local UnitRay = workspace.Camera:ScreenPointToRay(Input.Position.X, Input.Position.Y)
		local Result = workspace:Raycast(UnitRay.Origin, UnitRay.Direction * MaxDist, ignore)
		if Result then
			MovePlayerToPosition(Result.Position)
		else
			MovePlayerToPosition(UnitRay.Origin + (UnitRay.Direction * MaxDist))
		end
	end
end)
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#5

Wow! Thanks!, i still havn’t learnt Ray, i dont know a better way to but anyway
it worked :slight_smile: