Hi, im making a script in which if u touch a part, a function gets executed.
Now, ive used :GetTouchingParts to make the script more stable and accurate.
Here is my code for the script.
while true do
wait()
local Touch = PreviewButton:GetTouchingParts()
local Character1 = nil
for i,v in pairs(Touch) do
print(v)
if v.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
Character1 = v.Parent
elseif v.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
Character1 = v.Parent.Parent
end
end
end
and for some reason the PreviewButton does not detect the player’s parts as u can see here.
It only detects the button that is situated in middle of the PreviewButton.
Is there anything where :GetTouchingParts() doesn’t detect character parts? I dont think ive disabled my characters can_collide.
Am i doing something something wrong or :GetTouchingParts() does not work on the Character parts?
Im really confused here so it would be awesome if someone would help me.
I would not recommend you to use the GetTouchingParts method instead of an event like Touched. Events are more efficient, cause they only fire a callback when necessary. Also, this code does not refresh quickly enough. Wait() only waits for about 1 / 20 of a second or so, while the physics engine refreshes at more than 60 FPS I believe.
This is probably how I would try to solve your problem:
local character = script.Parent
for _, descendant in pairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
-- Check if the descendant is a part
if descendant:IsA('BasePart') then
-- Set an event listener
descendant.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if not part:IsDescendantOf(character) then
-- Print every part that is not part of your character
print(part)
end
end)
end
end
Additionally, you could also stop the event connections like this:
local character = script.Parent
local touchedConnections = {}
for _, descendant in pairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
-- Check if the descendant is a part
if descendant:IsA('BasePart') then
-- Set an event listener
local connection = descendant.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if not part:IsDescendantOf(character) then
-- Print every part that is not part of your character
print(part)
end
end)
table.insert(touchedConnections, connection)
end
end
-- For stopping the connected Touched events
local function disconnect()
for _, connection in pairs(touchedConnections) do
connection:Disconnect()
end
end
@Brickman808 is correct, .Touched events are more reliable than they might seem, despite the fact that they might not fire when it comes to really high velocities, for example when we detect bullet hits and very fast cars.
:GetTouchingParts() method doesn’t return characters, because it only retuns parts that are intersecting when CanCollide is turned on. There is, although, a tricky way to detect non-collidable parts, although I wouldn’t recommend this method.
You can even further simplify the process. No need to connect touch detection on every part, but rather have a server script connect .Touched and .TouchEnded.
local box = script.Parent
box.CanCollide = false; box.Anchored = true
box.Touched:Connect(function(object)
if (object.Name == "HumanoidRootPart") then
print(object.Parent.Name .." is inside the box!")
end
end)
box.TouchEnded:Connect(function(object)
if (object.Name == "HumanoidRootPart") then
print(object.Parent.Name .." left the box.")
end
end)
Once the player is inside, .Touched event doesn’t fire anymore.
But why is the :GetTouchedParts not working? I did use the .Touched() event and the .TouchEnded() event too but it did a lot of weird stuff like when i touched it and then jumped or something the touch ended event fired which isn’t supposed to happen and sometimes the .TouchEnded didn’t even fore so there was a thing there even though it shouldn’t have been.
Please let me know if u know why the :GetTouchedParts() didn’t work because the touched(0 events for me are not reliable. Also happy birthday lol.
I told u, sometimes the .TouchEnded() event does not fire and i really want it to. Also sometimes even when im in the part and im touching it, the part that i am turning visible is not turning visible. So i would really like a solution for the :GetTouchingParts() so i can do it easily.
im making a script in which if u touch a part, a function gets executed.
