Check if Mouse.Target (Humanoid)

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#1

hello, i want to check if mouse.hit finds a humanoid.
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#2

if mouse.Target:IsA(“Humanoid”) then

#3

yes but the humanoid is in the dummy so it cant find it

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#4

if mouse.Target.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass ("Humanoid")

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#5 
if mouse.Target:IsA("Dummy").Humanoid then
#6

Dummy is not a class you can use IsA on

#7

uhh, never heard of a dummy class. Did u mean to do if mouse.Target:FindFirstChild("Dummy").Humanoid then
??

#8

Overview

The underlying issue is that Mouse.Target returns an Instance of BasePart, not models. You’d have to check the BasePart’s Parent, which would be the Dummy model, if it contains a child of class “Humanoid”.

Corner Cases

This could error if you run Mouse.Target.Parent when pointing at the sky, so you’d want to first check that Mouse.Target is not nil.

If you specifically want to use this function on Dummy models and not players, that would have to be another check in that if the Mouse.Target.Parent.Name is something like "Dummy".

Example

if mouse.Target ~= nil then
   local model = mouse.Target.Parent
   if model:FindFirstChildOfClass ("Humanoid") then
      print "Pointing at a model with Humanoid"
   end
end
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