How do I detect if part touches another part

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#21

Soooo I have to add wait when the part moves it’s position?

#22

A wait won’t solve if it’s being brought to its new position instantaneously – I edited my post as you replied with a potential solution if you’d like to maintain usage of Touched events.

It’s past 4AM for me atm, so I may need to continue helping later on, if needed.

#23

here are the one of the scripts from the Up,Down buttons

local part = game.Workspace.Part
local button = script.Parent

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	local point = Vector3.new(1,0,0)
	part.Position = part.Position + Vector3.new(0,0,1)
end)

but i don’t know where to add the wait()

#24

thanks for helping see you tmrw

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#25

If your script don’t work, it is probably because you used CFrame or Position change. I writed a script below. You will have to put this script on yellow part.

script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(function()
    for count, instance in ipairs(script.Parent:GetTouchingParts()) do
        if instance.Name == "WhitePart" then
            instance:Destroy()
        end
    end
end)

The name of lthe ittle white part must be “WhitePart”

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#26

I tried your script and i also parent it to the part the one who changes position
but sadly it did not work i checked the output there are no errors
i think the only solution is to make the moving to be smooth
but i dont know how to do it

#27

Do you renamed the white part ?

#28

yes I did rename the part to WhitePart

#29

Try this, put this script in the part that you want to destroy the other parts. This will work even if the part has can collide off.

local part = script.Parent

local function GetTouchingParts(thepart)
   local connection = thepart.Touched:Connect(function() end)
   local results = thepart:GetTouchingParts()
   connection:Disconnect()
   return results
end


while wait() do
   for I, v in pairs(GetTouchingParts(part)) do
     v:Destroy()
   end
end
#30 
script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(function()
    print(1)
    for count, instance in ipairs(script.Parent:GetTouchingParts()) do
        if instance.Name == "WhitePart" then
            print(2)
            instance:Destroy()
        end
    end
    print(3)
end)

What number is printes on this script when you move the yellow part at the same position than the white part?

#31

I check the output there are no prints

#32

Did you try my script, it should work.

#33

where should i parent the script? just wanna know

#34

The script should be a child of the main part. Like if the script was in PartA, whatever touched PartA will be destroyed.

#35

it did not work :frowning:
no errors also

#36

Oh strange, I’m in class right now so I can’t test it but I can test it later.

#37

sorry for interrupting with your classes you should do your class first

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#38

I think you may try something related to the WorldRoot (the mosed used one is Workspace).

A function called :ArePartsTouchingOthers() does exist, and may help you in what you intend to do !

You may check this post to have further pieces of information about it, how to use it, …

It seems that it returs a boolean that says if a part is touching one or other specific parts (not in the table).

They say:

Return: Boolean. → True if any of the parts in partList [table containing parts] are touching any other parts (parts not in the partList). False if no parts are passed.

It can be an efficient way, combined with .Touched event !

#39

Replace “script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal(“Position”)” In first line of my script by Event who make move the yellow part.

script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(function()
    for count, instance in ipairs(script.Parent:GetTouchingParts()) do
        if instance.Name == "WhitePart" then
            instance:Destroy()
        end
    end
end)
#40

Apologies, but when script.Parent hits a part, do you want script.Parent to be destroyed, or the part it touches?