Help with Touch and TouchEndded events

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#1

Hi i am making a game and i have a part that is like a button when you stand on it your name will be in a dictionary and when you don’t touch it, it will remove you from the dictionary.
This is the code i have right now

local touched = {}

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(touch)
	if touch.Parent.HumanoidRootPart then
		touched[touch.Parent.Name] = 0
	end
end)

script.Parent.TouchEnded:Wait(function(touch)
	if touch.Parent.HumanoidRootPart then
		touched[touch.Parent.Name] = nil
	end
end)

This doesn’t work because when i step on to the button it does add me to the dictionary but shortly after it removes me again while i am still touching it any help?

#2

You may be better off using Region3 since you can find all the players inside the Region3.

#3

but how would i do that? can you give me an example

#4

Also as a side note, wouldn’t you want to use :FindFirstChild(“HumanoidRootPart”) because the script wouldn’t error if it’s nil?

#5

as far as i know when using something like this in an if statement it should only go the next line if it doesn’t throw an error and that the statement is true

#6

Really? Unless I’m confusing something I think it will say “Attempt to index nil with HumanoidRootPart” but I may be wrong. You could always test and prove me wrong though :man_shrugging:

#7

atleast it wouldn’t happen because the part will never touch a part that isn’t the player

#8

Well I guess if nothing that doesn’t have a humanoid can touch it then you should be fine regardless.

#9

Personally, I would use FindFirstChild just in case you later add an npc without a HumanoidRootPart.

#10

i’ve found a solution now so i am just going to close this