Best way to find the ancestor character?

[Isuati52 (Thaumiel)]

In my game I recently made the change from Region3 hitboxes to Raycast based hitboxes, and one issue I ran into was that it became harder to find the ancestor character from the detected hit part. This arises from Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) which I do not know why. If the sword was to hit the character’s accesories, it just simply wouldn’t find the humanoid. Any help on how to do this better?

[Sir_Highness]

How about using IsA to detect the character?

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

local char = Hit.Parent:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model") will fix your issue. This occurs because handles(the parts of accessories) are parented inside accessory objects which means you have to use Hit.Parent.Parent for most accessories.

[123andcut (Zzzzzzzzzz)]

First find the character and confirm if it has a humanoid.

local character = hit:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA(“Model”)
local human = character:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”)

[Sir_Highness]

This seems like a good way to do it:

A better way to check if something is inside a character

In that case you would either want to loop through all existing characters, or use recursion/iteration to get to the bottom-most model that has a humanoid inside it. I’d do the latter since it seems like the appropiate solution for an event that can happen multiple times per second. local m = hit.Parent while not m:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and m.Parent ~= game do m = m.Parent end local hum = m:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

[Forummer]

if hit:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model"):FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
	--do code
end

This will include accessory handles (which are BasePart instances).