Help finding when a player isn't touching a part

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#1

Hi, Scripters!
I’m trying to make it so when a player touches a part, their leaderstats go up one second at a time and when they aren’t touching the part, it pauses. Also, when the player dies, their leaderstat should return to 0.
The issues I’ve run into include:

  • Increasing the leaderstat when the player isn’t moving but is still on the part
  • Detecting when the player is no longer touching the part
local TimePart = game.Workspace.TimePad.TimePart
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Touching = false

--Debounce
TimePart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	if Player then
		if not Touching then
			Touching = true
			Player.leaderstats.Time.Value += 1
			wait(1)
			Touching = false
		end
	end
end)




while wait() do
	for i,player in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		local Character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
		if Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Health == 0 then
			player.leaderstats.Time.Value = 0
		end
	end
end

Thanks to anyone that can help! I’ll be here to reply if you can respond :slight_smile:

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#2

Just use .TouchEnded, check if its the player and then do your code.

#3

What Im trying to do is pause the increase in the leaderstats while the block isn’t being touched. Can you explain how I would do that? Also I still am not sure how the player will keep its currency increasing while they aren’t moving because even though I have a touched event, when the player isnt moving, the number doesn’t increase.

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#4

GetPartsInPart seems perfect for this:

--Script inside StarterCharacterScripts
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Character = script.Parent
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character)
local Time = Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats"):WaitForChild("Time")

local TimePart = workspace.TimePad.TimePart
local Touching = false

--Use Humanoid.Died instead of looping
Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
	Time.Value = 0
end)

function isCharacter(parts)
	for _, part in pairs(parts) do 
		if part.Parent == Character then
			return true
		end
	end
	return false 
end

while task.wait(1) do 
	local parts = workspace:GetPartsInPart(TimePart)
	--if any of the parts touching are parts of player character
	if isCharacter(parts) then 
		--increase their time
		Time.Value += 1
	end
end
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#5

Would this be in the StarterCharacterScripts?

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#6

Works like a charm! Thanks so much for your help!

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