How do I work out the distance a player has fallen?

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#1

(This is my first post, so sorry if I have done something wrong)

I need to have a script able to work out the distance that a player has fallen, say if they fell off a platform that was 5 studs off the baseplate, then the distance fallen would be 5.

This is the code I have so far

while true do wait(0.2)
	height = chr.HumanoidRootPart.Position.y
	if oldheight ~= nil then
		difference = oldheight - height
		if difference ~= nil and difference > 0 then
			difference = oldheight - height
		else
			difference = nil
		end
	end
	print(difference)
	oldheight = height
end
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#2

You can get the height they were when they started falling, then when they landed on the ground, you would get the difference between the height they started falling and the height they are on now on the ground. This can be done using the StateChanged event of the Humanoid.

For example:

local stateType = Enum.HumanoidStateType
local falling_height
local dist

Humanoid.StateChanged:Connect(function(old, new)
    if new == stateType.Freefall then
        falling_height = HumanoidRootPart.Position.y
    elseif old == statetype.Freefall and new == statetype.Landed then
        dist = falling_height - HumanoidRootPart.Position.y
    end
end)

Edit: stateType.Freefalling was changed to stateType.Freefall

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#3

Hey, I have tried this script and I am pretty sure it should work. However, I keep getting this error:

Freefalling is not a valid member of "Enum.HumanoidStateType"

Any ideas of how to fix this?

#5

It’s supposed to be stateType.Freefall.

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#7

Thank you. “stateType.Freefall” worked.