Detecting If A Tool Is Interacting With An Object

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#1

Heya people, i’m Joni_R2D and my game mainly focuses on tools, so i want the tool to interact with other objects and such, for an example: If a player uses the tool on a button, then an object breaks. But the problem is that i don’t know how to detect if something is being interacted/touched by a tool or a player.

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#2

???

Please give us some code at least , and tell us what that button is
is it… a gui button?
or a click detector that you are referring to as a button

#3

You can detect when a tool is used by creating a LocalScript parented to the tool directly,

local tool = script.Parent
 tool.Activated:Connect(function()
  local char = tool.Parent
 local humanoid = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
 --do something

print ( char.Parent.Name .. "has activated the tool")
end
end)
#4

Well you want to create an tool which destroys an object on touched. This can esaily be done like this:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") == nil then -- we make sure it's not a player tocuhed
         hit.Parent:Destroy()
     end 
end)

This should be put inside your tool.

#5

Okay, going to try that right now.

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#6

You probablly already have a Touched funciton in your tool thought so be careful about that.

#7

It didn’t work, can you tell me what is wrong?

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#8

The tool’s script has the code that you sent me.

#9

Here is a code for your tool:

script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Handle").Touched:Connect(function(hit)
     if hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") == nil then -- we make sure it's not a player tocuhed
       if  hit ~= nil then
         hit:Destroy()
         end
     end 
end)
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#10

Thank you! It looks like it’s fully working now, :slight_smile:

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#11

Another method here, you can detect a nearby part by using rays which go in the Handle’s lookVector.
If it detects one then run the necessary checks and :Destroy it.
I’m Binding this to RenderStep for faster detection:

local handle = script.Parent

game:GetService("RunService"):BindToRenderStep("toolRaycast", Enum.RenderPriority.Camera + 1, function()
    local ray = Ray.new(handle.Position, handle.CFrame.LookVector * 2) --2 is how many studs close
    local part = ray:FindPartOnRay(ray, handle)

    if not part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
        part:Destroy()
    end
end)
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#12

It seems like everything is worked out, however one resource I’d really recommend is this:

Touched isn’t all that great so I felt like I should add my two cents.

While you may need some animations (for improved accuracy, I think), it’s really a great idea for future reference.