Seating Character Best Method?

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Hey guys, recently I’ve been confused about this,

What’s the best way to detect if someone sat on a specific seat?

Now so far, I’ve seen 2 methods.

1. ChildAdded and ChildRemoving Method

workspace.Seat.ChildAdded:Connect(function(Child)
	if Child:IsA("Weld") and Child.Name == "SeatWeld" then
		local character = Child.Part1.Parent
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
		print(tostring(player).." has entered the seat!")
		-- etc
	end
end)

workspace.Seat.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(Child)
	if Child:IsA("Weld") and Child.Name == "SeatWeld" then
		local character = Child.Part1.Parent
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
		print(tostring(player).." has left from the seat!")
		-- etc
	end
end)

2. Humanoid.Seated Event Method


local character = localplayer.Character or localplayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

humanoid.Seated:Connect(function(IsSeated, Seat)
	if IsSeated and Seat == workspace.Seat then
		print(tostring(localplayer).." has entered the seat!")
	elseif not IsSeated then
		print(tostring(localplayer).." has left from the seat!")
	end
end)

Also, do they have any ups or downs?

If there’s any other topic relating to this please let me know!

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You can use Seat.Occupant.

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I’ve made something like this,

game.Workspace.Seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
	local humanoid = game.Workspace.Seat.Occupant
	local char = humanoid.Parent
	local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
	if game.Workspace.Seat.Occupant then
		print(tostring(plr).." has entered the seat!")
	else
		print(tostring(plr).." has left from the seat!")
	end
end)

But, my else statement gives me the following error:
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Does Occupant not detect the humanoid before leaving?

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Well there’s multiple ways of approaching this. One way is to do this for a specific seat

local seat = workspace.Seat

seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal('Occupant'):Connect(function()
	if seat.Occupant ~= nil then
		local player = game:GetService('Players'):GetPlayerFromCharacter(seat.Occupant.Parent)
		print(player.Name..' has entered the seat.')
	end
end)

Another way would be to use a local script in StarterCharacterScripts and everytime the humanoid’s SeatPart changes, you can fire a RemoteEvent to the server.

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Seat.Occupant is ‘nil’ if the seat has no occupant.
Seat.Occupant.Parent would error in cases where a seat has no occupant as ‘nil’ has no member named ‘Parent’.

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Is there any way to get the occupant once they leave the seat?

Because once they leave, the occupant is equal to nil,
Unless if there’s any other method.

7

Yes.

local player

script.Parent:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
	local occupant = script.Parent.Occupant
	if occupant then
		player = occupant
	end
end)

Essentially this code will see if there’s an occupant and if there is an occupant then it just sets “player” to be said occupant.
That should be the last person to sit in the seat.

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Thanks! But, are there any advantages or disadvantages between the ChildAdded one and this? If so, please let me know.