How to make knock able streetlights?

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#1

How to make knock able streetlights not allowing player to knock them with their character only by a vehicle like car. I tried using welds but it allows any entity to knock it out. Whats best way to make one?

#2

Try to detect when it’s a car touching the streetlight by using the .Touched event. If it is the car, then unanchor the streetlight (or whatever else you’re doing to knock it down).

#3

You could try to use magnitude and check if the player is inside a car or not. For example it should check the distance between the front of the car and the streetlight.

Here is a rough idea of how it could be done:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerInCar = Instance.new("BoolValue") -- creating a boolean to check wether the player is inside a car or not
	playerInCar.Name = "PlayerInCar"
	playerInCar.Value = false
	playerInCar.Parent = player
	
	playerInCar:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function() -- should fire whenever the player goes inside a car
		if playerInCar.Value == true then
			local streetlights = workspace.Streetlights:GetChildren()
			repeat
				for i, v in pairs(streetlights) do
					if v:IsA("Model") then
						local distance = (playerCar.Front.Position-v:GetPrimaryPartCFrame().p).magnitude
						if distance < 5 and carSpeed > 20 then -- check if the distance is lower than 5 studs and the speed of the car is over 20
							-- unanchor streetlight and make it fall to the direction where it is supposed to fall
						end
					end
				end
				wait(0.03)
			until playerInCar.Value == false
		end
	end)
end)

I hope this helps.

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