Touch Event Bug

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#1

Hello, developers!

I have had a similar issue before, but it has come up again. I have a Touched event script in workspace to detect when a player touches a certain block then it changes an ObjectValue to that block. There is also a Touch Ended event that sets the block value to nil. Problem: When the player uses a tool, an animation happens and the ObjectValue becomes nil because the player moves. Same thing happens if you Equip/Unequip a tool. Here’s the script:

for i,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name == "SugarBlock" then
		local touchBlock = v.TouchBlock
		touchBlock.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
			if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
				local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
				plr.SugarBlock.Value = v.PrimaryPart
			end
		end)
		touchBlock.TouchEnded:Connect(function(hit)
			if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
				local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
				plr.SugarBlock.Value = nil
			end
		end)
	end
end

Are there better alternatives to Touched and TouchEnded? (The blocks’ cancollide are set to off).

Any suggestions are appreciated! :slightly_smiling_face:

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#2

you could use region3, but i’m not really sure if that’s a good choice to use

#3

I have never used Region3 before, and I could try. Thanks for the suggestion!

#4

You should actually instead check if the hit name is “HumanoidRootPart”
I’ve had a similar issue back in the day and that fixed it for me.

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#5

Could make use of TouchInterest?

#6

If you’re using the touch/touchended event to track if a player is in a region, you could use a function to calculate whether a player is inside an area or not. You could also use Region3, however, when I used that it caused really bad performance issues in a game heavily populated with terrain/parts. If you have performance issues too, you can use this to find a player’s region:

function calcRegion(region)
    local chrPos = chr.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.p
    local xCoord = chrPos.X
    local yCoord = chrPos.Y
    local zCoord = chrPos.Z

    local regionPos = region.CFrame.p
    local regionSize = region.Size
    local xMin = regionPos.X - regionSize.X/2
    local xMax = regionPos.X + regionSize.X/2
    local zMin = regionPos.Z - regionSize.Z/2
    local zMax = regionPos.Z + regionSize.Z/2
	local yMin = regionPos.Y - regionSize.Y/2
	local yMax = regionPos.Y + regionSize.Y/2

    if xCoord > xMin and xCoord < xMax and zCoord > zMin and zCoord < zMax and yCoord > yMin 
and yCoord < yMax then
    	if curTouch ~= region then
		    prevTouch = curTouch
		    curTouch = region
	    end
    	return true
    else
    	return false
    end
end
#7

Well the easy way out would be connecting a repeat loop to the touched event that checks the magnitude of you and the block’s range, and If you’re out of the range then the value becomes nil.

#8

I’ve tried that, it kind of fixed it (it works better but still not perfect, there’s still bugs).

TouchInterest is created when you link a .Touched event to a basepart, just researched it

Not sure how I would implement that :confused:

I could try, thanks

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