How to get distance along a line?

[marsh bronze]

Oh I can also post some photos of what I have so far if needed.

[frigid raptor]

to get a distance between 2 objects you subtract position of first object from position of second object and then getting a magnitude of the resulting vector

add a subtract chip
connect 2 "get position" chips to it
connect one of get position to the gun and the other to the slide point
connect the output from the subtract chip to the "vector3 get magnitude"

[haughty rover]

Called Projection

slidee start + (slider direction * Dot(slider direction, target - slider start))

and then u clamp the dot, min being 0 will have the minimum be at the sliders start, negative will allow to go behind the sliders start, positive will allow to go infront the sliders start. And yes its in meters

there are Vector3 Project chips, but you cant clamp it like u can by doing it from scratch unless u use logic or sumn to make it work, but thats dumb

alternatively theres also inverse lerp & lerp. Value is the target, start & end for both inverse lerp & lerp are the same/straight forward

[lean silo]

@haughty rover @frigid raptor @marsh bronze

There is a new chip, Closest Point On Line, all you need is to get the closest point on the line and then get the distance from the line origin to closest point on the line, should be 2 chips

[haughty rover]

but cant clamp

[lean silo]

wdym?

[haughty rover]

i think they said they want for a gun, so needs be clamped

[lean silo]

Closest Point On Line Segment, same thing but instead has a length definition

[haughty rover]

one those pull back things for bullet stuff

[lean silo]

Wait, does Vector Project do the same thing?, just getting the magnitude of the projected vector?

[haughty rover]

ah, either i saw diff thing, or its been updated, or they added another

[marsh bronze]

um

[haughty rover]

its just the offset itself, not added to slider start

[haughty rover]

if u really only needed the distance, u would just dot

[lean silo]

but dot doesnt return positional distance

it returns angular distance

[marsh bronze]

RR had a certified invention it was just a subtract and a vector3 dot

pretty simple

[haughty rover]

nah, it is positional if unormalized subtraction

[lean silo]

oh i see what you mean now

not just vector dot

[haughty rover]

thats what i mentioned first, just i added to slider start bc i assume u need position for a model