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How do I check if any part in a model is touched?

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I have a model named Car. I am attempting to check if any part in Car is touched, and if so, run a function that damages the car, etc. However, I cannot get this to work. I believe I could use GetChildren and check if each one is a part, but would this be laggy? Using the Touched event directly on Car did not work:

car.Touched:connect(collide)

Apparently I cannot use the Touched event on a model. This is understandable.

So, how would I do this without causing lag, having glitchy hitboxes, or some similar problem?

Also, how do I check if the part I collided with is part of the model?

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Making a table with 2000+ values is not laggy, so why would 100 values or so be laggy?

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So it's not laggy. But how would I check for the Touched event with every part in the table?

Anonymous#
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You might be better off adding in the touched event to the part that is doing the damage

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kingdom5, that would not work because I am having other cars running into cars so I would have the same problem anyway.

Anonymous#

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I understand that you don't want the script to be laggy and looping through the parts will not cause lag. Initially it is just doing a normal index key pairs loop and all you have to do is check if the part is a part and if it is then just connect the touched event. In no way is this inefficient or bad.

for _, Part in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
	if Part:IsA('Part') then
		Part.Touched:connect(function()
			print(Part.Name .. ' was touched.')
		end)
	end
end
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Yes, this will work. Thank you.

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