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How to see if a part is part of a user?

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Im trying to see if a users mouse is on a user problem is I don't know how to know if the part the mouse is on is part of the user here is what I am trying 

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()


function find_parent(item) 
	for _,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		local success, response = pcall(function()
			local catch = item
			while true do
				if catch.Parent.Name == v.Name then
					return true
				end
				catch = catch.Parent
				wait()
			end
		end)
		if success then
			return response
		else
			return false
		end
	end
end

mouse.Move:connect(function()
	local target = workspace:FindPartOnRay(
        Ray.new(mouse.UnitRay.Origin,mouse.UnitRay.Direction*50000)	
	)
	if target then
		if find_parent(target) then
			print('yes')
		end
	end
end)

this code will work if the mouse is hovering over the persons legs but otherwise will just not print yes is there a better way todo this?

thanks, ira

Anonymous

2 comments

0

bruh youre calling a function with an infinite while loop every pixel the mouse moves... not good.

Anonymous#
0

yes, but the loop will only run 2 or 3 times max i really can't think of any better way to do this.

Anonymous#

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✓ Accepted answer

Your code is iterating over the children of Players, which are the Player objects, not the players' character models which are children of the Workspace. Normally, to detect if a part is inside a character model (and whose) you'd so something like this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
...
local model = part:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model")
if model and model~=game.Workspace then
	local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(model)
	if player then
		-- part is inside the character of this player
	end
end

Roblox character Models do not have other Models inside of them normally, so this will work. If your game puts Models inside players' character Models, parts of those models will not return you a player, you'd need to keep searching up the ancestry chain recursively until you reach the Workspace (which is a Model) or get nil for some reason (could happen if you yielded and player was removing).

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0

thank you that is exactly what i needed not only did you fix my problem you also made the code way shorter.

Anonymous#

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