moving a set distance

[ZZZZZ]

Say you have a waypoint at point A, and your character is standing at point B, how would you go about moving 200 distance towards A from B? I figured you can use 'local playerX, playerY, playerZ = player.X, player.Y, player.Z' to get the current position but i'm not sure how to go about moving 200 distance towards A from that location. Any help would be great

[rock5]

Well there is a function player:moveInRange(target,range,ignoreCycleTargets) but it works with range to target not range from start. But you could get the distance to the target and then minus 200 from it to give you the range to target. Eg.

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dist = distance(targetWP,player)
range = dist - 200
player:moveInRange(targetWP, range, true)

[Administrator]

You can use some simple trigonometry to get a point based on distance and angle.

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local tx, ty;
local angle = math.ytan2(B.y - A.y, B.x - A.x);
local dist = 200;
tx = math.sin(angle)*dist;
ty = math.cos(angle)*dist;

[rock5]

I was trying to avoid that. Doing those annoys me. So i used a function that already does it. I guess both solutions should be similar.