How to get the position of a Model?

[cold jacinth]

Hii y'all
I'm trying to get the distance from a model to a part. How would I get the position of a model?

[prime steeple]

To get the position of a Model you have to get the position of a part inside that model.

If your model has a PrimaryPart then its best to use that parts position

[cold jacinth]

How can I give it a PrimaryPart? And what even is that? 😅

Oh and also @prime steeple

I am trying to make a humanoid move to my waypoints in order from 1 to end

I have them as childs in order and all but when I use a loop with getchildren they give a table with non ordere children meaning rn my npc just goes to a random order

how can I make it follow it correctly?
Tried to use table.sort and all but just doesnt really work

[prime steeple]

You can set the primarypart in the properties of your model. Just lick on PrimaryPart and then on the part you want to be the Primary Part.
And A PrimaryPart pretty much is just like the HumanoidRootPart. It acts as the main part of the model.

[cold jacinth]

oooh that's good

Thanks

[prime steeple]

You have them named 1 2 3 .. etc right?

[cold jacinth]

well, 1 is named start and the last is named end

but the rest is on number

[prime steeple]

so 1 is the 2nd?

[cold jacinth]

no no

the 2nd is called 2

start, 2, 3, 4 etc, end

[prime steeple]

so what is start and end then

what is 1 then

[cold jacinth]

first and last

nothing

the names go; start, 2, 3, 4, 5, end

[prime steeple]

is it important that they are named start and end?

[cold jacinth]

nah

just so my ADHD brain can connect the dots

[prime steeple]

Rename them to 1 2 3 4 5 6

[cold jacinth]

okidoki
then what? 😅

[prime steeple]

Hold up let me look into one of my old scripts i had the same problem

[cold jacinth]

Why is it that getchildren will give a shuffled table?

[prime steeple]

So basicly I just had a function which would get the next waypoint based on a current waypoint variable

[cold jacinth]

thats like so not efficient

[prime steeple]

idk probably has something to do with performence idk

[cold jacinth]

is there a way where I can alter the tables contents to match that from 1-9?

as making a whole function for that sounds like overkill

imo

[prime steeple]

Probably but that would be complex i think

[cold jacinth]

oh oke

[prime steeple]

I just did this

I have a variable CurrentPathpoint which could be 1 for example

[cold jacinth]

oh thats neat

[prime steeple]

So i loop through each pathpoint look if its name is tostring(CurrentPathpoint + 1)

and return that Pathpoint

Does that help?

[cold jacinth]

this will return the number in string right?

cuz you use tostring-tonumber

so you get a numered string

[prime steeple]

No this returns the waypoint

Because thats what i needed

[cold jacinth]

yeh but the nextpathpointname returns string

[prime steeple]

that yes

but the function itself returns the instance

[cold jacinth]

then you go through the entire table and look when that path matches the name and return the path thinguy

I think I understand it

thanks 😄

[prime steeple]

👍

[cold jacinth]

Whats the diff between doing "Index" or "_"

[prime steeple]

Nothing. Your just naming a variable

[cold jacinth]

oh oke

but ur not using it tho

[prime steeple]

People always do "_" because they don't need the index

[prime steeple]

I like to remind myself what each variable in my code stands for

[cold jacinth]

YOOOO thank you so much man, I used code from a 4y old video for tower defense game before but that broke so now that I tried your method it works!!, this is my code. Dont know if its the best haha

using a while loop to continue walking until the end

[prime steeple]

Looks good

[cold jacinth]

Nice

Btw I have a question

When you place something in a storage, replicated or server, they don’t get rendered

What if I have a script in there?(as in one of the models in storage) Does this script also get run on the model in storage or only on the cloned ones?

@prime steeple

[cold jacinth]

Oh and is it possible for one script to call a function on another script?

[prime steeple]

With Bindable functions / events yes

[prime steeple]

Idk. I'd guess it won't run untill its out of storage

Nvm. I remembered. A script in storage will run once its removed from storage

[cold jacinth]

Ah nice.
Thats good to know

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Model:GetPivot() returns a cframe of the oivot's position in the world if the model bas no primary part, or the primary part's cframe if it does have one