I know this sounds like a “here’s my script, please fix it” post but I really need help because I am not sure what is wrong. The value isn’t changing and there are no errors.
CODE:
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character
local IsSafeValue = script:WaitForChild("IsSafe",9000)
local SafeZone = workspace:WaitForChild("SafeZoneArea",9000)
function MakeRay()
local ray = Ray.new(
Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.p, -- origin
( Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.p - (Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,1,0)).p).unit * 500
)
local ignore = Character
local hit, position, normal = workspace:FindPartOnRay(ray, ignore)
if hit then
return hit
else
return nil
end
end
while true do
wait()
local HitPart = MakeRay()
if HitPart then
IsSafeValue.Value = HitPart:IsDescendantOf(SafeZone)
end
end
It is a region that raycasts upwards and detects if a player is in that particular region, changing a bool if it is. But right now, the value isn’t changing at all
On the client, this will raycast up from the player’s HumanoidRootPart with a length of 500 studs and change the value of the IsSafe BoolValue object to true if the part detected is a child of SafeZone, false if not.
I assumed that you also wanted the value to be false if a part was not detected by the raycast at all.
A Region3 is basically a defined bounding box between two points. After you created your bounding box through using the Region3 class, you can use some awesome methods, just like raycasts. One of these methods is FindPartsInRegion3, which returns up to 100 players that exist within the region. Much like raycasts, you can also find the parts with an ignore list or white list. You can find the wiki page here.
I am using this in a server script but it does not work
function GetPlayersInPart(Part)
local Point1 = Vector3.new(40.529, -20.558, 61.449)
local Point2 = Vector3.new(-147.815, 57.37, 260.209)
local region = Region3.new(Point1,Point2)
local partsInRegion = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region,nil,math.huge)
local Players = {}
for _,Part in pairs(partsInRegion) do
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Part.Parent)
if player then
print("Player in zone")
player.PlayerGui.ProvinceIndicator.Activate:FireClient(player, script.Parent.PlaceName.Value)
end
end
return Players
end
GetPlayersInPart(script.Parent)
This should hopefully help you out. I also commented the code to help you understand each section of the code. In order to constantly check if the player is within a Region3, you’ll have to check the parts in the Region3 with a while loop or any other timed loop).
local debugPart = true -- to show the region
local point1 = Vector3.new(0, 0, 0) -- first position
local point2 = Vector3.new(10, 10, 10) -- second position
local region = Region3.new(point1, point2) -- creating the Region3, which we only need to do it once
if debugPart then -- if the debugPart is set to true
-- part creation
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Anchored = true
part.CanCollide = false
part.Size = region.Size
part.CFrame = region.CFrame
part.Parent = workspace
end
function getPlayersInPart()
local partsInRegion = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region, nil, math.huge) -- getting the parts in the Region3
local players = {} -- create a table for the players
for _,part in pairs(partsInRegion) do -- loop through all of the parts
if part.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then -- if the part is the player's HumanoidRootPart (change if needed)
local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) -- get the player from that part
if player then -- checking if the player exists
if not players[player] then -- checking if the player isn't already in the table
table.insert(players, player) -- inserting the player into the table
end
end
end
end
return players -- return the table
end
while wait() do -- main while loop to check the parts
local players = getPlayersInPart() -- the actual player table
end
Not going to get too into it here since it’s not what the thread is about, but since you brought up issues with parts potentially blocking projectiles it’s not safe to have that little control over your game.
Look into CollectionService, it has a lot of helpful methods you could use to tag parts so you can make your projectile system ignore them using CollectionService’s GetTagged method.
