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How do you make a pad that damages characters standing on it every second?
I have a part with just a script attached to it. This is inside the script:
local trap = script.Parent
local RESET_SECONDS = 1
local isTouched = false -- Declare debounce variable
local function damagePlayer(otherPart)
local partParent = otherPart.Parent
local humanoid = partParent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
if humanoid then
if not isTouched then -- Check that debounce variable is not true
isTouched = true -- Set variable to true
humanoid.Health = humanoid.Health - 10
print("OUCH!")
wait(RESET_SECONDS) -- Wait for reset time duration
isTouched = false -- Reset variable to false
end
end
end
trap.Touched:Connect(damagePlayer)
This code does damage every second to players standing on the pad, but it doesn't damage players that stand still on the pad. A player has to move for the Touched event to fire.
How do you make a script that can detect any player in contact with the pad and deal damage even if the player is not moving?
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I solved the problem by using the function GetTouchingParts(). I did a similar thing with a gold giver script.
local GoldGiver = script.Parent
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local function FindCharacterFromPart(part)
local possibleCharacter = part:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model")
if possibleCharacter and possibleCharacter:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") and (possibleCharacter:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") or possibleCharacter:FindFirstChild("Torso")) then
return possibleCharacter --Since it is known that the model is a character, return the character
else
return nil
end
end
while wait(1) do
local touchingParts = GoldGiver:GetTouchingParts()
local touchingCharacters = {}
for i, part in ipairs(touchingParts) do
if (FindCharacterFromPart(part) ~= nil) and not table.find(touchingCharacters,FindCharacterFromPart(part)) then
table.insert(touchingCharacters, FindCharacterFromPart(part))
end
end
for k, character in ipairs(touchingCharacters) do
local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
local gold = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats"):WaitForChild("Gold")
gold.Value = gold.Value + 1
end
end