.Touched() doesn't work on button that's anchored. How do I fix that?
I'm making a button that opens the gate for a certain amount of time. However when I touch the button nothing happens.
Here is the code I have:
repeat
wait()
until game:IsLoaded()
local part = script.Parent
local gate = part.Parent
local gate_model = gate.Blocks
local time_number = gate.Time.Value
function button_press()
for i, v in pairs(gate_model:GetChildren()) do
v.Transparency = 1
v.CanCollide = false
wait(time_number)
v.CanCollide = true
if not v.Name == "Invisiwall" then
v.Transparency = 0
end
end
end
part.Touched:Connect(function()
print("TEST")
button_press()
end)
Here is a video of what happens (humanoids are not anchored and you need one part to be unanchored for .Touched() to work. I can't unanchor it because the button has CanCollide off)
2 answers
There is a property called CanTouch that allows the .Touched event to be fired. This might be turned off.
If it is on, then it might also be because in that custom character maybe IT has that property off.
Really, this is a bit baffling, but this is my best guess.
Well, I didn't really understand what you wanted to do because my native language is not English and sometimes I can misinterpret what you asked, but if what you want to do is just make it so that when someone presses a button it opens a door for a certain amount of time and then closes it by itself I created it for you.
I created two templates, one I named door and the other as button, and inside the button I put a script.
Here are some variables that we will use
local button = script.Parent --Here we have our button
local gate = script.Parent.Parent.Gate -- Here we have our Gate
local timeOpen = 5 --The time the gate remained open
local buttonPressed = false --A variable that we will use so that it will not reset the gate
--if someone steps on the button again until it is closed again
Here we go if someone pressed the button
local function onTouch(touch) -- function that will be active when a player steps on the button
local character = touch.Parent -- let's get the one who touched the button
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") -- and here to see if the one who touched the button has a "Humanoid"
--so there is no risk of another type of object touching it and activating it
if humanoid and buttonPressed == false then -- here it checks if a "Humanoid" has touched the button and if the button has already been activated by someone
openGate() --If it is a "Humanoid" and the button has not been activated yet, it will execute our next function
end
end
button.Touched:Connect(onTouch) -- This is to detect when something touches the button and activate the onTouch function we created
So if someone pushed the button let's open our gate
local function openGate() --Here we have a function that will be activated when
--someone activates the ringing function
buttonPressed = true
gate.Transparency = 1
gate.CanCollide = false
wait(timeOpen) --as soon as our "openGate" function is activated the "buttonPressed" will become true and until the gate closes again no one can reset it
gate.Transparency = 0
gate.CanCollide = true
buttonPressed = false
end
Above I gave the script order of were contrary just to explain, in the script it looks like this
local button = script.Parent
local gate = script.Parent.Parent.Gate
local timeOpen = 5
local buttonPressed = false
local function openGate()
buttonPressed = true
gate.Transparency = 1
gate.CanCollide = false
wait(timeOpen)
gate.Transparency = 0
gate.CanCollide = true
buttonPressed = false
end
local function onTouch(touch)
local character = touch.Parent
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if humanoid and buttonPressed == false then
openGate()
end
end
button.Touched:Connect(onTouch)
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