[SOLVED] How to measure distance between two entities in script

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as in, calculate the distance between two objects and if the distance is less than a certain number do something.

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Hi @ALUCARD!

Here is an example.

var distance = entityOne.getPosition().distance(entityTwo.getPosition());

if (distance < 10) {
    // do something
}
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alright i will try it

4

I keep getting an error stating “Can.getPosition is not a function”. It works when i use a name but does not work when I use a tag
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Can you tell me what the problem is?

5

Probably because findByTag is returning an array of entities.

You can try the line below to use the first entity of the array.

var Can = this.app.root.findByTag('bottle')[0];
6

that does not seem to work I get this error
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘getPosition’)
this problem exists even when there is only one entity with that tag

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And I need it to return multiple entities, and use whichever number is the lowest.

8

Strange. What if you do it like below?

var Can = this.app.root.findByTag('bottle');
var Distance = Player.getPosition().distance(Can[0].getPosition());

This requires some extra logic that I don’t know at the moment.

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Yes I figured it out