Detecting Player placement system

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collisionPoint = object.PrimaryPart.Touched:Connect(function() end)
		collisionPoints = object.PrimaryPart:GetTouchingParts()
		
		-- Checks if there is collision on any object that is not a child of the object and is not a child of the player
		for i = 1, #collisionPoints do
			if not collisionPoints[i]:IsDescendantOf(object) and not collisionPoints[i]:IsDescendantOf(character) then
				setCurrentState(3)
				
				break
			end
		end
		
		collisionPoint:Disconnect()
		
		return collided

Can someone please help. My brain is not functioning. Basically how do I make it so if there is a Humanoid like other humanoids and not just the Character itself. Because I don’t want that to become a boundary. I want to make it so lets say I have an NPC walking around and the Player wanted to place something. I don’t want the NPC to be preventing you from placing the object other wise if I have too many NPC game will be impossible to build.

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Hey there!

I have no idea what are you trying to achieve. Could you please make the description more detailed?

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You can use FindFirstAncestor() if you have NPC’s in a folder, or you could use IsDescendantOf() like you are already using. Its basically what you have for making sure you can’t collide with yourself just making sure other things can’t

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if not collisionPoints[i]:IsDescendantOf(object) and not collisionPoints[i]:IsDescendantOf(character) and not collisionPoints[i]:FindFirstAncestor("NPC") then

won’t work :confused:

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collisionPoint = object.PrimaryPart.Touched:Connect(function() end)

Do you put something in this function or nah?