How do I change the player character's friction?

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#1

Follow up from my old thread, I want to know how would I change the player’s character’s friction for future use.

I once set it up and it works fine but after I kept developing it, it somehow stopped working? I think i accidentally removed some part of it perhaps?

Here’s the script

local function setfriction(character)
	
	for _, part in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if part:IsA("BasePart") then
			
			if not part.CustomPhysicalProperties then
				part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(part.Material)
			end
			
			local orig = part.CustomPhysicalProperties
			
			local density = 1
			local friction = GameBaseStats.BaseFriction
			local elasticity = 0.5
			local frictionWeight = 1
			local elasticityWeight = 1
			
			
			
			
			part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(density, friction, elasticity, frictionWeight, elasticityWeight)
		end
	end
end

(Yes I did call the function)

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#2

Did you add any other script in the player that might have disrupted the movement?

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#3

I don’t think so? This is the only script that changes the friction of the character

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#4

Since a players feet are CanCollide false are you sure you didn’t just change the Friction of the baseplate or Parts they are standing on?

#5

I did not touch the parts they’re standing on at all

#6

Bumping this.

Is it not working because it’s in a serverscript?

#7

How did you try to call the script? Where is the script located?

#8

it’s a server script, it calls when players joined and gets the character

It’s in server script storage

#9

When you test the place do your character’s Parts Friction values = GameBaseStats.BaseFriction?

What is all this supposed to do:

			if not part.CustomPhysicalProperties then
				part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(part.Material)
			end
			
			local orig = part.CustomPhysicalProperties

If you look at the BasePart.CustomPhysicalProperties documention you’ll see you don’t need to set any of those.

How is GameBaseStats.BaseFriction set? Try putting in local friction = 0 instead. If the Friction sets to 0 then you know you have a problem with the variable.

#10

GameBaseStats is a module where I modify overall values of something

I did call a require() when using it

#11

Hey, I used this script and called it when a character is loaded, and it works as intended.

local function setfriction(character)
	
	local density = 1
	local friction = 0.2
	local elasticity = 0.5
	local frictionWeight = 1
	local elasticityWeight = 1

	for _, part in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
		if part:IsA("BasePart") then

			if not part.CustomPhysicalProperties then
				print("not found for"..tostring(part))
				part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(density, friction, elasticity, frictionWeight, elasticityWeight)
			end

			--local orig = part.CustomPhysicalProperties

			--part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(density, friction, elasticity, frictionWeight, elasticityWeight)
		end
	end
end

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		setfriction(char)
	end)
end)
#12

I even try setting the friction manually during playtest on server side and it doesn’t work???

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#13

I tried it on a blank baseplate and it doesn’t work??? What’s going on with this engine.

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#14

Where’d you place the script, and is it Local or Server?

#15

I put mine as a server script. And, when you say doesn’t work, are you clicking the player’s model and checking for the custom physical properties?

#16

Yup, I tried the script AND manual edit on server side.

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It says that it has customphysicalproperties but it’s not slidy?

#17

Ok… so i tried changing the density and it works now???

Still not the results that I want though.

(I want my players to starts off slow and ends with player slowly sliding (kind of like source game but with starting inertia) to prevent ADADADAD spamming)

#18

So it wasn’t the matter of the script, it was the matter of number (idk why it worked tho cause when it was working i didn’t change the density)

Anyways, try change the density if friction isn’t working

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