Damage area doesn't damage the player if they have a bool value set to true

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1

I’m trying to make a script that checks if a player has a specific bool value set to true.

I want it so that if the bool value is set to true then it doesn’t damage the player, and if it’s false it does damage.

How would I achieve this?

This is what I have for the damage brick:

local damaging = false

script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
	if not damaging then
		damaging = true
		if part.Parent then
			local human = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			human.Health = human.Health - (human.MaxHealth/3)	
		end
		wait(1)
		damaging = false
	end
end)
2

You can’t just assume that part.Parent has a humanoid child and use the variable normally, because other things can collide on your part. So I’ve made some changes to your code:

local damaging = false

script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
	local human = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if not damaging and human then
		damaging = true
		
		human:TakeDamage(human.MaxHealth/3) 
        --Same as "human.Health = human.Health - human.MaxHealth/3
		wait(1)
		damaging = false
	end
end)
3

You can use attributes for this.

local damaging = false

script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
	if not damaging then
		damaging = true
		if part.Parent and part.Parent:GetAttribute("CanDamage") then
			local human = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			human.Health = human.Health - (human.MaxHealth/3)	
		end
		wait(1)
		damaging = false
	end
end)

That would be the easiest way to add the check, this also allows you to set if a player can be damaged in another script. Beyond that there are some other things I would change, the 2 most notable ones being using task.wait() over wait() and switch to using a RunService.Heartbeat loop with GetPartsInPart or one of its relatives(the Touched event is simply not reliable enough to use).