Detect when player jumps

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#1

hell all, I’m just wondering what the best way for me to detect when a player jumps. A lot of pages suggest humanoid.Jump etc or jumping, but none seem to be working. All i want is to have something fire an event when a player jumps so it lowers their stamina, and im wondering what the easiest way to do this would be

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#2

I believe you should use the humanoid.Jumping method. So something like this:

-- lets say your script is in 'StarterCharacterScripts'
local character = script.Parent
local hum = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

hum.Jumping:Connect(function(state)
	if state == true then -- if humanoid has jumped
		-- code
	else -- if humanoid has landed (i think)
		-- other code
	end
end)

There is also another method where you can check the humanoid StateType.

Here’s another example:

-- again let's say your script is in StarterCharacterScripts
local char = script.Parent
local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

hum.StateChanged:Connect(function(oldState, newState)
	if newState == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping then -- if humanoid is currently jumping
		-- code
	end
end)
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#4

this worked, the only gripe i have is that it only works about 1 in 6 tries, as in I could jump 6 times and at least one of those times one of the jumps will not be detected. For me it works fine but for future scenarios I would love a more consistent version

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#5

Just a little bit of more research about this, and I think you may find a fix to that small issue. I never really had that kind of issue before with this. I recommend using the Humanoid.StateChanged method as it’s better and is more reliable.

#6 
local function OnHumanoidJumping(Active)
	if not Active then return end
	print("Hello world!")
end
	
Humanoid.Jumping:Connect(OnHumanoidJumping)

Use the ‘Jumping’ event instead, I’ve never encountered any inconsistencies while using it. The ‘Active’ parameter simply represents if a jump is beginning or ending.

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#7

hello, I am still encountering a lot of issues with the .jump and .jumping events and nothing seems to be working consistently or to a decent standard.

local stamina = {}

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local maxStamina = 100


local function playerJumped(active, player)
	if active then 	print("jumped") end
end

local function func(player)
	local stamina = Instance.new("IntValue")
	stamina.Value = maxStamina
	stamina.Name = "Stamina"
	stamina.Parent = player
	
	local char = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	print(char)
	print("testOne")
	char:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Jumping:Connect(playerJumped)
	print("testTwo")
	
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(func)

return stamina

this is what my code looks like and it is extremely inconsistent, as in it will detect maybe 1 out of 10 jumps where as .jumping would work a good 4 out of 6 times. is there something wrong with this code? Most of it is just for testing purposes and has yet to have any function.

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