How would you determine how high up the player is

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#1

Hello developers! I’m Kamikaze. I’m trying to make an anti-exploit script, and I am doing a part where if a player is at a height, too far up, they get banned. I just need help with the determining how high up the player is part. Thanks!

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#2

I would cast a ray straight down and measure the distance to the nearest part on that ray.

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#3

Get the magnitude between the base plate and player

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#4

Get the Magnitude of the (HumanoidRootPart’s Position - “YourStartingPoint” (Which is usually the baseplate)).

Also, banning a Player for being too high is a high chance for a False-Positive to likely occur, as Players could easily just be flung into the air.

More info on Magnitudes here:

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#5

I do not know how to do that? Could you teach me?

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#6

You can set a max height as a variable, and check the Y Coordinate of the HumanoidRootParts position.

However, simply banning people for being high in the air should be avoided, as Terror said, a player could be flung into the air for a variety of reasons. Rather than simply banning, you could respawn the player.

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#7

I would find the Y value of the position of the player’s HumanoidRootPart

Put this is ServerScriptService:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connnect(function(plr) --When the player joins do this:
    plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char) --Whenever the player respawns do this:
        while wait(1) do --Every second do this:
            if char:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart').Position.Y > 300 then --if the humanoidrootpart doesn't exist, or you just don't want to use it, then you can instead use Torso or LowerTorso; also, change "300" to whatever Y value you want the this code to run when the player is above this Y value
                --do whatever you want to do with the exploiter here
            end
        end
    end)
end)

Edit: Thanks to @C0lvy123 for detecting my “ServerStorage” mistake

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#8

I assume you mean ServerScriptService, because scripts in ServerStorage don’t run.

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#9

It’s very inefficient to use a loop in this case. Instead of having an infinite loop to check a property, use events.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connnect(function(plr)
    charAdded = plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
        char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart"):GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(function()
            if char.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y > 300 then
                --exploiter ew
            end
        end
    end)
end)
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