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vampire burning under roofs when it shouldn't? help plz

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soo, im trying to make a jojo game, and one of the script is one where the vampires burn on sun, but touch ended is making it impossible to detect if player is under something that blocks sunlight, soo i keep burning even if im under the roof! plz help

local service = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local folder = service:WaitForChild("Effects")
local effect = folder:WaitForChild("VFire")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(chr)
		spawn(function()
			local vampire = true
			local touching = false
			
			local human = chr:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			
			local torso = chr:WaitForChild("Torso")
			local head = chr:WaitForChild("Head")
			
			--[[
			local la = chr:WaitForChild("Left Arm")
			local ra = chr:WaitForChild("Right Arm")
			local ll = chr:WaitForChild("Left Leg")
			local rl = chr:WaitForChild("Right Leg")
			]]
			
			local part = Instance.new("Part",head)
			part.Name = "SunCheck"
			part.Massless = true
			part.CanCollide = false
			part.Size = Vector3.new(1,50,1)
			part.Transparency = 0.5
			
			local weld = Instance.new("Weld", part)
			weld.Part0 = head
			weld.Part1 = part
			weld.C0 = weld.C0
			weld.C1 = weld.C1 * CFrame.new(0,-25.5,0)
			
			local FireParticle = effect:Clone()
			FireParticle.Parent = torso
			if touching then
				FireParticle.Enabled = false
			else
				FireParticle.Enabled = true
			end
			
			part.Touched:Connect(function()
				touching = true
			end)
			
			part.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
				touching = false
			end)
			
			while wait(1.5) do
				if part and chr and human and torso and head and FireParticle and weld then
					if not touching then
						if vampire then
							human:TakeDamage(15)
							FireParticle.Enabled = true
						end
					end
				else
					break
				end
			end
		end)
	end)
end)
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Let the poor vampire suffer its fate. It will be over soon.

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Touch events is a strange choice of how to do this in the first place. Normally, you'd do some raycasts from various body parts towards the sun, and see if the path is obstructed.

Anonymous#

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Since Roblox doesn't have anything that would check if there's anything overhead I would recommend casting a ray. Just note that when you raycast, do not overdo it! Raycasting a lot way too fast can hurt your game performance. The simplest and fastest way to do it can be done by following the following:

Create a new ray:

ray = Ray.new(chr.Head.Position, Vector3.new(0, 100, 0))

This creates a ray that starts at your character's head and finishes 100 studs up into the air.

Then you would want to get anything that the ray collided with:

Object, Position = workspace:FindPartOnRay(ray, chr, false, true)

This looks for any collisions in the ray. The first thing you put into it is the ray itself, the second thing is what to ignore (which is the character because that doesn't count as an object overhead), the third is something you can ignore for now (leave it false), and the last one is to ignore water as being something it hits. Object is the part or whatever the ray hit and Position is the position of that object that the ray hit.

Lastly, you check if it hit something (check if it isn't nil).

if (Object) then
	--Your code when it detects that there's an object overhead
else
	--Your code when the ray doesn't hit anything (nothing is overhead)
end

Note that this ray will not ignore players that jump on your head because we only told it to ignore your own character.

To fix this issue we can look if there is a "Humanoid" within the object we hit.

if (Object) then
	if (not Object:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")) then --Checks to see if there isn't a humanoid object in the object the ray hit
		--Your code when it detects that there's an object overhead
	end
else
	--Your code when the ray doesn't hit anything (nothing is overhead)
end

I recommend learning more about raycasting here and here so you can fix your own issues and so you can understand how it works better. This will help you understand what you are doing.

If you have any questions or issues please contact me. ;)

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thx it worked

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