Detecting if a character is touching water

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#1

Alright,

I’m trying to detect if the player is partially submerged in water as I’m making a system for wading in shallow water (with a splash sound and effect etc) and I can’t figure out how.

I’ve tried looking it up but haven’t had any luck yet, could anyone please help?

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#2

raycast straight down from the players torso, and if the ray hits water then play the sound or change the SoundId of the footsteps sound.

#3

That’s the first thing I tried. Didn’t work :frowning:

#4

If the water is fairly even, and its position is always the same on the Y axis, you could compare the players HumanoidRootPart.Y. If it’s equal or below, they would be submerged in water.

Edit:

And you could do HumanoidRootPart.Y - X, with X being a number, if you wanted to be more specific.

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#5

Something like this should do it. You’ll have to experiment with how far down to cast the ray.

local ray = Ray.new(Player.Character.Torso.Position, Player.Character.Torso.CFrame:vectorToWorldSpace(Vector3.new(0, -3, 0)) 
local hit, position, normal, material = workspace:FindPartOnRay(ray,Player.Character)
if material == Enum.Material.Water then
  Splash.Play()
end
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Detecting If User Is In Water
#6

:man_facepalming:i forgot that there was a material under findpartonray, I overcomplicated it… It works now, thanks.

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