Discord Thread getting a single specific armor stand in a radius

[skUnity Discord]

# a
is there anyway to get the closest armor stand with a differentiator e.g

-- get a armor stand with a certain nbt in radius 5 of entity
-- get a armor stand in a certain list in radius 5 of entity

i've tried

set {_t2} to nearest armor stand in radius 3 around entity

but from what i've tried i'm pretty sure you cant check for a differentiator with this,
ive also tried looping armor stands in a radius but i only want to get one out of all the armor stands in that radius
i've tried a lot more but i cant bother explaining each one rn

i've been at this for like 20 hours i feel so stupid ;-;

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord. View the thread on skUnity Discord here

 

[skUnity Discord]

loop:
  check for nbt:
    check distance

Posted by: x8ight from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

but like.. idk how to check all of the distances then get the closest one
i tried before with sorting lists and stuff but it didnt endup working because im stupid or something

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

Just do it one at a time

if {_distance} is not set:
  set {_distance} to (distance between a and b)
if (distance between a and b) < {_distance}:
  set {_closest} to loop-entity 
  set {_distance} to (distance between a and b)

broadcast {_closest}

Posted by: x8ight from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

so like

                loop all armor stands in radius 3 of {_t}:
                    set {_value} to tag "custom;valueholder" of nbt of loop-value
                    if {_value} >= 0:
                        if {_distance} is not set:
                            set {_distance} to (distance between loop-entity and {_t})
                            set {_closest} to loop-entity 
                        else if (distance between loop-value and {_t}) < {_distance}:
                            set {_closest} to loop-entity 
                            set {_distance} to (distance between loop-entity and {_t})

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

Set distance to a local variable

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

it is

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

Since getting distance is taxing on the server, it'd be best to just retrieve it once
Not before the conditions it isn't
You set it inside the conditions for some reason
That means you retrieve the same distance twice per iteration

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

not like this works anyways, it still broadcasts all of the armor stands near it and sometimes randomly just decides to stop working at all
dont know why its this hard just to loop one entity in a radius

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

Take advantage of lists here

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

i tried and it ended horribly

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

How?
If you loop the entities and use
set {_entities::%distance between loop-value and player%} to loop-value
, it'll be sorted automatically
Just use
1st element or {_entities::*}
outside of the loop, and it's done
Note that I'm on my phone so apologies if I type slowly

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

so like

                loop all armor stands in radius 3 of {_t}:
                    set {_entities::%distance between loop-value and {_t}%} to loop-value
                    set {_closest} to 1st element of {_entities::*}

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

I said outside of the loop, no?
In italics too

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

outside of the loop

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

Bro
This line
Please read instructions
Now it'd be hilarious if put that line before the loop and complained it wasn't set lmfao
Now it'd be hilarious if you put that line before the loop and complained it wasn't set lmfao

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

If its out of the loop you cant use “loop-x”…

Posted by: x8ight from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

so like

                loop all armor stands in radius 3 of {_t}:
                    set {_value} to tag "custom;valueholder" of nbt of loop-value
                    if {_value} >= 0:
                        set {_entities::%distance between loop-value and {_t}%} to loop-value
                    set {_closest} to 1st element of {_entities::*}

wait ? im stupid
yeah i cant get this to work
i give up ;-;
literally been trying to do this for 2 days

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.

 

[TheRealUnderscore]

Your choice, but it's not that complicated of a problem so I don't get why you're not explaining it fully
"cant get this work" explains nothing, but if you wanna given up that's fine by me

Posted by: theunderscore from the skUnity Discord.

 

[skUnity Discord]

{_closest} returns as nothing
ive tried/made atleast 25 "solutions" and none of them worked and im really demotivated

Posted by: inputmessage from the skUnity Discord.