Are there any alternatives to touched events?

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#1

In my script I have a while loop, saying while a part is touched, turn blue. But it’s really buggy and keeps fluctuating back to its original colour. Is there another thing I can use instead of a touched event?

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#2

You can usually try Region3 to create a Custom Touched Event

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#3

if you are using touched events then while loops are unnecessary, furthermore I believe that touched events are fine for this and that you are just not using it correctly. lastly, the alternatives probably require more resources or processing than touched events.

#4

Sorry I’m not using a while loop. Here is my script.

part1.Touched:Connect(function(TouchedPart) -- Touched

	local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(TouchedPart.Parent)

	if Player then -- Check if it found character
		if standingOnArena1Player1 == nil then -- Check if not standing and if not occupied

			part1.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Teal") -- Set color
			standingOnArena1Player1 = Player
		end	
	end
end)

part1.TouchEnded:Connect(function(TouchedPart)

	local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(TouchedPart.Parent)

	if Player then -- Check if it found character
		if standingOnArena1Player1 ~= nil then -- Check if standing and is occupied
			if  standingOnArena1Player1.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled == true then
				standingOnArena1Player1.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled = false
			end
			part1.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Smoky grey") -- Set color
			standingOnArena1Player1 = nil

			if standingOnArena1Player2 ~= nil then
				if standingOnArena1Player2.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled == true then
					standingOnArena1Player2.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled = false
				end
			end
		end	
	end
end)

It’s super buggy, if the player moves at all while on the part, it will flick back and fore between the colours.

#5

perhaps you could create a hitbox with an extended height and cancollide off to mitigate the “flicking”.

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#6

How do I create a hitbox?

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#7

You could try using magnitude to calculate how close someone is to the part and then trigger the colour change when they are very close and not close

#8

You can use raycasthitbox it uses raycast and attachments.

#9

All of these are either overcomplicated or outdated ways of doing what GetPartsInPart, GetPartBoundsInBox and GetPartBoundsInRadius do. Use those for the simplest and most performant way of doing this.

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