Get forcefield when you touch a part?

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#1

Roblox Forcefields

Is there a way to make the Roblox forcefield surround the player whenever you touch a part? like when you die and touch a spawn you get a forcefield? Please let me know!

#2

Here you go, Hope it’s what you need!

local part = script.Parent
local debounce = false

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and debounce == false then
		debounce = true
		local forcefield = Instance.new("ForceField")
		forcefield.Parent = hit.Parent
		wait(4) -- optional
		debounce = false
		forcefield:Destroy()
	end
end)
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#3

Hey! so will this work with a localscript so that all players in the server won’t get the forcefield. or am I just dumb lol. sorry to bother. Thank you!

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#4

Its a server script, It will only give it to the person who touches it. Test it out!

#5

Thank you for letting me know! It does work but I am just a little new to scripting. Thank you so much!

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#6

No problem. Good luck on your journey!

#7

Would be a lot better to use the new spatial query API to determine when a player enters/leaves a zone, that way you can give/remove a player’s forcefield dynamically (as opposed to an arbitrary 4 second delay), additionally the inaccuracies of ‘Touched’ and ‘TouchEnded’ means that they shouldn’t be depended on for this kind of game logic.

local Game = game
local Workspace = workspace
local Players = Game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = Game:GetService("RunService")
local Part = Workspace.Part --Part that gives forcefield.

local function OnHeartbeat()
	local Parts = Workspace:GetPartsInPart(Part)
	for _, Player in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local Character = Player.Character
		if not Character then continue end
		local State = false
		for _, Child in ipairs(Character:GetChildren()) do
			if not (Child:IsA("BasePart")) then continue end
			if table.find(Parts, Child) then State = true break end
		end
		local ForceField = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("ForceField")
		if (State and ForceField) or ((not State) and (not ForceField)) then continue end
		if (not State) and ForceField then ForceField:Destroy() continue end
		if State and (not ForceField) then ForceField = Instance.new("ForceField", Character) continue end
	end
end

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(OnHeartbeat)
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#8

I get what you mean, if he meant inside of a part then this is the way to go, if he meant touching a part mine is the way to go.

#9

Touched/TouchEnded shouldn’t be used for this kind of functionality (tracking players inside/outside of zones), if you want a touched part to represent a zone then you should place a transparent, uncollidable part over it and perform the spatial query on that part instead.

#10

Alright that seems good to me,.