Get random reachable point in radius with MINIMUM distance?

[Krileon]

@BIGTIMEMASTER

you could move the origin to the minimum distance that you want from the player

That won’t work as I need to spawn things in a radius around the player. That would spawn things in a radius around a point away from the player and would put the player within the allowed spawn radius.

@herb64

The problem, why it sometimes fails is, that the GetRandomReachable function is just called again when executing the return node. You should save the random location in a local variable, then doing the comparison, and when distance is large enough, return the vector in that variable.

It’s a While Loop. I don’t need to store anything here. It continues until the condition is no longer true, but sometimes it gives up. My guess is some sort of infinite loop protection as the while loop might be going for too long.

@jaspos

EQS Environment Query System is handy for this.

Now this looks interesting. How well does this perform though? Will look into giving it a try, thank you!

@anonymous_user_c2dfcd1a

Perhaps you could first select a random rotation around the circle, then a random vector distance in that direction with a minimum distance? It’s best to avoid doing a while loop checking some random condition like that, as there is no upper limit to the amount of time it could take to meet the criteria.

I’m pretty sure the long running while loop is why it’s failing sometimes. It gives up likely due to some looping protections. I’m needing an entirely random point around the player with a minimum distance. It’s a shame the get reachable point function has no minimum distance check, but looks like the EQS can do it.