How do I make a while touching part?

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#1

Hello, I’m tryng to make a part that while is touched it prints or do something only 1 time and not repeat a lot of times like the touched function.
So basically when you use the touched function and you move over the part with that function that action happens a lot of times but I need it to happen only 1 time even if I’m moving over the part.
I tryed something like this but still the same thing.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function()

	print("Touched")
	
end)

script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
	
	print("Touched END")
	
end)

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#3

Hmmm, what do you mean and what happened with the last reply?

#4

.Touched functions are unstable and you may experience having the action fired more than once, which is very common in these situations. I’d recommend you adding debounces, and other securities (such as wait(3) variable = false) to refrain from these things from happening. RemoteEvents would also be useful in these situations if necessary.

#5

You could use a boolean variable to ‘deactivate’ the part for a short time when it is touched.

local debouncer = true
local coolDownTime = 5

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function()
	if (debouncer) then
		debouncer = false
		print("Touched")
		wait(5)
		debouncer = true
	end
end)
#6

I didn’t understand the question at first. I thought you meant you wanted some kind of looping code that would run only if someone/thing was touching a part.

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#7

Use that same idea but instead you just do a repeat loop.

Do something like “repeat until touchFinished” and set touchFinished to true at the touch ended event

Example:

local t = 0
local touchHasEnded
part.Touched:Connect(function()
       touchHasEnded = false
       repeat
       t += 1 
       wait(1)
       until touchHasEnded
       print(t)
end)
part.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
       touchHasEnded = true
end)
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Stop giving currency when player has stopped touching part
#8

But I need something that repeats only 1 time while the part is touched like this example:

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So basically While P1 is touched the doors opens and keeps opened and after the player leaves the P1 the door closes but if repeats that many times the the door will open and open many times too.
I’m sorry it’s hard for me to explain sometimes, my native language is not English :frowning:

#9

Oh wait so you want it to close after the touch ends and NOT open anymore?

So you can use the connection method:

local connect1
local connect2
local touchEnd
connect1 = part.Touched:Connect(function()
        connect1:Disconnect() -- Prevents the touched even happen again
        repeat
        wait(1)
        until touchEnd
end)
connect2 = part.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
       touchEnd = true
       connect2:Disconnect() -- Also prevents the touch end of happening again
end)
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#10

If ‘P1’ is being used as a non-colliding/invisible hitbox then you can use my function to check if a player is inside a brick:

local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local ps = game:GetService("Players")

local function isInsideBrick(position, brick)
	local v3 = brick.CFrame:PointToObjectSpace(position)
	return (math.abs(v3.X) <= brick.Size.X / 2)
		and (math.abs(v3.Y) <= brick.Size.Y / 2)
		and (math.abs(v3.Z) <= brick.Size.Z / 2)
end

local function getPlayersInsideZone(zone)
	local list = {}
	for _, player in ipairs(ps:GetPlayers()) do
		if (player.Character) then
			local torso = player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			if (torso and isInsideBrick(torso.Position, zone)) then
				table.insert(list, player)
			end
		end
	end
	return list
end

local open = false
rs.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	if (#getPlayersInsideZone(script.Parent) > 0) then -- someone is standing inside the region
		if (not open) then
			print("Open")
			open = true
			--code to open the door
		end
	else -- nobody is inside the region
		if (open) then
			print("Close")
			open = false
			--code to close the door
		end
	end
end)
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