How to get distance Unity5? /Javascript/

Hi.
I’m new to Unity5 and I’m having some issues..
How do I get Unity5 to measure distance from FirstPersonCharacter to any other object that the character is looking at..?

I've tried something like this ->

var distance = Vector3.Distance(object1.transform.position, object2.transform.position);

But the distance always stays at 0.

Please help!

 

Where do you define the objects? Post your whole script, use code tags.

 

I have something like this.


#pragma strict

var TheDammage : int = 50;
var Distance : float;
var MaxDistance : float = 1.5;
var TheSystem : Transform;


function Update ()
{
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
{


}

}

function AttackDammage ()
{
var hit : RaycastHit;
if (Physics.Raycast(TheSystem.transform.position, TheSystem.transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), hit))
{
Distance = hit.distance;
if (Distance < MaxDistance)
{
hit.transform.SendMessage("ApplyDammage", TheDammage, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
}
}
}

 

Good job not using Code Tags~

You should use Debug.Log to make sure distance is happening correctly. Also where are you calling your AttackDammage() function?? (Man that spelling is horrendous lol) Debug.Log(Distance) and also Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, hit.point) to make sure your Raycast is hitting. You might want to check a LOT more things such as Collision Layers, the fact that SendMessage should probably go to .gameObject instead of .transform. And finally (nitpicking here) instead of using Transform direction, just use TheSystem.forward. It's already a transform so no need for that extra work.