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How would i make this forcefield affect other people but not me?

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8 years ago

I am currently trying to make a Force Field at the moment and it all works fine, i'm still working on pretty much everything about this, but there is one thing that is stumping me. I can't get my force field to affect other people but not me. Basically, if anybody touches the forcefield, or goes inside of it, they take damage, but if i touch it, i don't want to take damage. I'm not too familiar with local players as apposed to any other character. The function of the hitting a character is at the bottom of the code. I tried to make a little bit of code, but i never could quite figure it out, please help me, thanks in advance! :)

01local tool = script.Parent
02 
03Something = not nil
04 
05local debounce = false
06 
07local character = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer
08local player = character.Character or character.CharacterAdded:wait()
09 
10tool.Equipped:connect(function(mouse)
11    mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
12        if key == "q" and debounce == false then
13    debounce = true
14    print("ForceField")
15    local ForceField = Instance.new("Part", player)
16    ForceField.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Deep blue")
17    ForceField.Transparency = 0.7
18    ForceField.CanCollide = false
19    ForceField.Anchored = true
20    ForceField.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
21    ForceField.Size = Vector3.new(25,25,25)
22    ForceField.BottomSurface = Enum.SurfaceType.Smooth
23    ForceField.TopSurface = Enum.SurfaceType.Smooth
24    ForceField.Position = player.Torso.Position
25    ForceField.Parent = game.Workspace
26    ForceField.Touched:connect(function(hit)
27        local anyplayer = game:GetService('Players')
28        local localplayer =
29        if
30            anyplayer then
31            print ("firing")
32        elseif
33 
34        end
35    end)
36    wait(2)
37    ForceField:remove()
38    debounce = false
39    end
40end)
41end)
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Magnitude. UniversalDreams 205 — 8y

Couldn't you just use an if statement to check if the player who touched the force field's name is the same as yours? User#11440 120 — 8y

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User#6546 35

8 years ago

Check

You have your hit variable, and you can find out if the part belongs to a player using Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent). With this, checking to see if you touched it is trivial.

However, I would recommend checking to see if Hit is a descendant of the Player's Character because that will work better for hats and tools.

1part.Touched:connect(function(hit)
2    if not hit:IsDescendantOf(character) then -- If it's not you
3        print("DEATH TO THE HEATHENS")
4    else
5        print("Hi me.")
6    end
7end)

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