How would I make the player move upwards when pressing a proximity prompt?

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#1

I’m trying to make a script inside of an attachment where interacting with the ProximityPrompt moves the player upwards for a limited amount of time (basic climbing). Using the help of a scripter friend (i’m a builder and am VERY unexperienced with scripting), I was able to come up with this:

script.Parent.ProximityPrompt.Triggered:connect(function(player)
	--trying to make a climb script
	local prompt = script.Parent.ProximityPrompt
	local character = player.Character
	local root = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
	local velocity = Instance.new("VectorForce",player.Character.HumanoidRootPart)
	velocity.Attachment0 = root.RootRigAttachment
	velocity.Force = Vector3.new(0, 500, 0)
	script.Parent.ProximityPrompt.Enabled = false
end)

It functions, but the issue I have right now is that the player doesn’t move upwards when pressing the button, and instead just moves them higher when they jump like this:


The intention for the final result is to simply take control away from the player temporarily (which i know how to do but haven’t done yet) and make them move upwards with an animation.

#2

There is a property called Velocity in the HumanoidRootPart. Maybe you can try messing with that Velocity?

#3

I tried that, but it didn’t do much and I don’t know how to keep velocity staying at a constant number.

#4

I think you have to loop it, so maybe you can for loop, so you can only run it a certain amount of times?

for count = 1,10,1 do
   -- Set Velocity
   task.wait(0.1)
end
#5

That might help, but looking at the properties of a HumanoidRootPart, there doesn’t seem to be a property called Velocity and the value called AssemblyLinearVelocity doesn’t seem to change on a HumanoidRootPart, even with the loop on. I tried using this with both the Velocity and AssemblyLinearVelocity properties and nothing really happens so I personally think using a velocity instance would be better, but that doesn’t work too well either.

#6

Does velocity work when the player is anchored? If it does, you could anchor the player to stop them from moving, animations still work when players are anchored.

#7

Velocity only works on something unanchored, but you did give me a good idea. TweenService could maybe work for this.

#8

Oh, Velocity property only works on the Client side, sadly.