Help for thyme scripts

[FRA32]

I am currently making a chainreaction minigame, and I need help with following effects:

an script which makes the executing object scan it's surrounding area(radius 5) for the first-best circle(circles only, if a polygon or rectangle is nearby, it shouldnt scan it), and then saves the position of it in an local e.this._target variable so i can use it for the rest of the scripts.

An on-update script which alters the speed of an newly spawned object so it mooves in a spiral form around it's spawn point, becomming faster a short over time and thus distancing faster from the point the script was executed

If you have suggestions for one of these 2 scripts, please write them down in a comment. Use a general form(like (i)=>{}), and don't care to much about certain values. I will adjust the values inside the script to numbers that fit best for me

[icrls984]

Um, I think the first script can be achieved by using a laser to scan for circles, um, like

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rotation =
{sim.time}

fadeDist =
5.0

onLaserHit =
(e)=>{
    e.geom.materialname == "object_receiving_data" ? {
        e.geom._tpos = _tpos;
        e.geom._tvel = _tvel;
        rotation = rotation + math.pi
    } : {
        e.geom.radius > 0 ? {
            _tpos = e.geom.pos;
            _tvel = e.geom.vel;
            rotation = rotation + math.pi
        } : {}
    }
}


I use materialName as a identification system, different objects in my contraptions are named different things for my lasers do tell what is what - this is adapted from my missile script, sooo...

For the second part, it is relatively easy to make the spawned object move in a circle, and from there have it spiral out. In this particular circle I made, the timeToLive was 10 seconds, but you can change it to any real number without any problems.

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vel :=
{
    [sin(timetolive - 10), cos(timetolive - 10)] * (timetolive - 10)
};
timetolive :=
10.0


Well, I tried. If all this fails, let me know and I will try to find what went wrong.

[FRA32]

I already found out a way to make spirals by now, but nice to see a confirmation of the way I do it. And your way how to do the scanning gave me the idea to store a reference of the scanned object as a variable, and if another object comes and has a closer distance than the previous one, it gets overriden. Thanks for the help anyways