Detect if Player is Falling (Descending Downwards)

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I want to detect if a player is descending downwards. I’ve tried using humanoid states like FreeFalling and FallingDown, but both of which include jumping up, ascending, as falling. I’ve also tried the humanoid movement property, but it doesn’t change when falling. What should I do here?

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#2

Have you tried checking for the velocity to change negatively?

Considering it’s falling, the Velocity of HRP changes

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#3

The MoveDirection property of the Humanoid is a Vector3 value that tells you the direction the character is moving.

if humanoid.MoveDirection.Y < 0 then
    -- Your character is moving downwards
end
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#4

Thank you that works!

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Char = plr.Character
local humanoid = Char.Humanoid
local hrp = Char.HumanoidRootPart

while true do 
	task.wait(0.1)
	if hrp.Velocity.Y < 0 then
		print("Falling")
	end
end
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#5

Thank you! For some reason the MoveDirection stays at 0 when the player is moving through the Y-axis. It may have something to do with my game’s gravity being lower than the norm. I did get this to work though:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Char = plr.Character
local humanoid = Char.Humanoid
local hrp = Char.HumanoidRootPart

while true do 
	task.wait(0.1)
	if hrp.Velocity.Y < 0 then
		print("Falling")
	end
end
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