Collecting players name from hitting a part?

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As of right now, I am currently trying to figure out for my game how I can get the name of the last player to touch an object before that object hits another certain object.

I tried setting up a string value in the object that the players are supposed to touch, and I have a script that sets the object that hits the ball (thats the object), as the string value.

local ball = script.Parent
local lastTouched = script.Parent.LastTouched

ball.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	lastTouched.Value = hit.Name
end)

What should I change or fix?

Thanks,

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The line lastTouched.Value = hit.Name doesn’t actually get the player that touched the ball part, it just gets the name of the part that initiated the collision (e.g. a character’s limb.) This is how you you can get the player from a Touched event:

ball.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local character = hit:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model") --Tries to find character model
	if(character) then
		local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(character) --Tries to find player
		if(player) then
			lastTouched = player
		end
	end
end)