How do you reference the head of a character?

✓ Accepted answer

Don't get too aHEAD of yourselves! You still need the character! Get it?

###Okay, I'll stop###

If we dive into the Player object

We can see that the Player has a property that we might like.

Character.

The Character property of Player returns the model that we control whenever we're playing. What's also awesome about this property? It's not Read - Only, so we can change it!

But we're getting off - topic, and I'm a professional scripter, I don't go to OT(or do I?)

Character objects also have a child, named Head, which is the head we're looking for!

BAM IM AMAZING AT ANSWERING.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
	print(plr.Character.Head.Name)
end)

BAM

###ERRORS###

Uh oh, errors!

Why is this erroring?

We are trying to access the Character of the Player while it might not be loaded yet! Scripts load the fastest in Servers, which is a bad thing if you're not waiting for anything because it'll cause everything to error.

How do we wait for the Character

:WaitForChild("Character")?

No, for one, the Character is not a Child of Player, but rather, a property.

How then? There's an event for the Player named CharacterAdded, which fires whenever the Character of a Player spawns!

So we can use that in out scripts!

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:connect(function(char)
		local head = char:WaitForChild("Head") --Just incase Head hasn't loaded yet.
	end)
end)

And there we go!

###What if you got the char, by a touched event?###

Yes, I totally thought this up myself

The Touched event returns a Part

Part.Touched:connect(function(hit) --Hit is the part that touched out 'Part'
end)

If a character touches it? It simply returns a part of the character, not the character itself. So, since it's a child of Character, we can so script.Parent!

part.Touched:connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local head = hit.Parent:WaitForChild("Head")
	end
end)

###pls at least give me some rep, I'm battling against @BlueTaslem here.###

AnonymousAug 23, 2015Edited Aug 23, 2015Permalink

If you have a character, the head is just going to be character.Head, since the head of a player is named "Head".

If you're handling this from a LocalScript, you can get the local Character like this:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()

local head = character.Head
-- do whatever to `head`

If you're handling this from a Server Script, you can get each new character like this:

function newPlayer(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character)
		local head = character.Head
		-- do whatever to `head`
	end)
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(newPlayer)
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	newPlayer(player)
end

AnonymousAug 23, 2015Permalink

How do you reference the head of a character?

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And there we go!