The Touched Event

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#1

Hey Developers! I have a question. It’s not for a specific script it’s just about the event in general.

For some reason, every time I use that function, it’s for when a player touches a brick. However, apparently, the event gets called about five or six times - the record being twenty-six - when a player touches a brick once. I want it so something happens once, within a time period (probably one or two seconds). I’ve tried a bunch of things to get around this but none of them seem to work.

What are your thoughts on this? What should I do the next time I have this situation? Thanks to whoever replies.

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#2

Typically called a “debounce” you need to ensure that the brick is called once by adding a delay to how often it can be called.

If you are trying to call it once, you simply do:

local Debounce = false
part.Touched:connect(function()
if p.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) and Debounce == false then
Debounce = true
– code
wait(any time you want before the next call)
Debounce = false
end
end)

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#4

Oh. I wasn’t aware that there was a thing called debounce. I learned something new today! Thanks for replying.

#5

Touched fires when any part touches it, not just when the player touches it. If for example the part is touching the baseplate Touched would fire

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#6

Well, I did put the whole this thing in:

part.Touched:Connect(function(p)
  local humanoid = p.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
		if humanoid then
--blah blah blah
        end
end)

So I’m pretty sure that isn’t the problem.

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#7

You could use TouchEnded event

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