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How would you get the character that touches a part?

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SimpleFlame 255

5 years ago

Hello. So if I have a simple touched script like so:

lua local part = script.parent part.Touched:Connect(function(hit) local char = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") if char ~= nil then --do stuff end end) What I'm trying to do is find the character no matter what the part touches. The "character" I'm looking for is a mob so I can't just check if it's in the players list.

So my question is how can I change this to always find the character that hit the part?

You could change it's humanoid name to something besides humanoid, and find if the hit's humanoid name is what you changed it to. CaptainAlien132 225 — 5y

welp, the hit is always one of the player's bodyparts, and always his feet, and the bodyparts are parented to the character, so simply: hit.Parent starmaq 1290 — 5y

or is that not waht you want? starmaq 1290 — 5y

Well the way I have the part set up it can also hit hats and other things on the character. So sometimes it doesn't get the character. Is there any other method that would do it accurately? SimpleFlame 255 — 5y

Find if it hits a Humanoid AizakkuZ 226 — 5y

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Answered by

darkzerobits 92

5 years ago

check if the Model has Humanoid like :

if Hit.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") ~= nil then ... end

this will find the humanoid even if his name is changed, and doesn't will work with normal bricks, only Models with Humanoids like Mobs and Players

I've tried this too but the problem is if it hits something like a hat. Then it would have to do Hit.Parent.Parent to get the humanoid. What I'm looking for is a way to check all possibilities. SimpleFlame 255 — 5y

you could use "or", for example : if Hit.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") ~= nil or Hit.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") then ... end darkzerobits 92 — 5y

Answered by

DeceptiveCaster 3761

5 years ago

Here is another way you could do this:

if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then

GetPlayerFromCharacter() returns the player associated with the given character (assuming that the player is associated with that character). If the player is not associated with the given character, GetPlayerFromCharacter() will return nil.

This would work but in my original question I say, " ...is a mob so I can’t just check if it’s in the players list". Therefore I can't get the player of a mob. SimpleFlame 255 — 5y

Answered by

ScriptsALot 91

4 years ago

    local function onTouched(hit)
        local char = hit.Parent
        if char then
            if char ~= nil then
                --do the stuff
            end
        end
    end)

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)

by the way you forgot to call the function ScriptsALot 91 — 4y

How would you get the character that touches a part?

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