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Why .Touch Event only runs after jumping on it?

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Hello, I want to script so if you touched a part five times, you'll get teleported back to the spawn point. It works fine, managed to fix how to update a gui and it wont loop while you stand on it, but it wont run everytime. There's no error given in output section. I've also looked for some solutions via Google, but no success. Here's the code:

-- VARIABLES --
local blacklisted = false

local playerService = game:GetService("Players")
local player = playerService.LocalPlayer

local gui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("ScreenGui").HitDamagePartCount

local valueText = gui.CountTextValue
local valueInt = gui.CountValue

local count = gui.Count

local teleporter = workspace.Teleport
local touch = workspace.Touch

-- FUNCTION --
function DamageGuiChanger(hit)
	if blacklisted == false then
		local humRoot = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		if hit == humRoot then
			if valueInt.Value < 4 then
				valueInt.Value = valueInt.Value + 1
				print(hit)
			else
				humRoot.CFrame = CFrame.new(teleporter.Position.X, teleporter.Position.Y + 2, teleporter.Position.Z)
				wait()
				valueInt.Value = 0
			end
			if valueInt.Value == 0 then
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0, 0.666667, 0)
			elseif valueInt.Value == 1 then
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0.333333, 0.666667, 0)
			elseif valueInt.Value == 2 then
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0.666667, 0.666667, 0)
			elseif valueInt.Value == 3 then
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 0)
			elseif valueInt.Value == 4 then
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0.666667, 0)
			else
				count.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
			end
		end
		blacklisted = true
		wait(.5)
		blacklisted = false
	end
end

-- MAIN --
while wait() do
	valueText.Value = "5 of "..tostring(valueInt.Value).." hits to get teleported back!"
	count.Text = valueText.Value
	touch.Touched:Connect(DamageGuiChanger)
end

You may look between line 19 and 46. Hopefully somebody can help me. G'Day.

Anonymous

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Hello!

Touched event only fires when the part begins to touch another part. I'd recommend you to use :GetTouchingParts() function to get any parts that are currently touching your parts

Also :GetTouchingParts() returns nil when the part has no TouchInterest, so you'll need to attach .Touched event

Example Code:

local part = script.Parent

part.Touched:Connect(function()
	-- to add touch interest
end)

while wait() do
	local touchingParts = part:GetTouchingParts() -- gets all touching parts

	for _, touchingPart in ipairs(touchingParts) do
		local char = touchingPart.Parent
		local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") -- if it's a character

		if hum and hum.Health > 0 then -- if humanoid is found
			hum.Health -= 150 -- kills the player
		end
	end
end

If you want to add a cooldown between part touching you can use debounce:

local part = script.Parent

part.Touched:Connect(function()
	-- to add touch interest
end)

local cooldown = false -- cooldown
while wait() do
	if cooldown == false then -- if its off cooldown
		local touchingParts = part:GetTouchingParts()

		for _, touchingPart in ipairs(touchingParts) do
			local char = touchingPart.Parent
			local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

			if hum and hum.Health > 0 then -- if humanoid is found
				cooldown = true -- sets it on cooldown
				hum.Health -= 10 -- kills the player

				wait(10) -- cooldown time
				cooldown = false 
				-- you can remove 2 line above if u want 1 time use
			end
		end
	end
end
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Thanks, I'll look if it works. If it does, I'll accept ur answer.

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