.Touched and Key F being press not working?

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1

I’m trying to get an event to fire if the player is touching an object and pressing the key F.
My issue, is that it doesn’t work. I originally tried with the event firing from the keypress, but I changed in hopes that it would work. Can you please help me?

local localplayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local touching = false

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if (uis:GetFocusedTextBox()) then
		return; -- make sure player's not chatting!
	end
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
		if touching == true then
			print("fire event")
		end
	end	
end)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local humanoidHit = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		if humanoidHit ~= nil then
			if hit.Parent.Name == Player.Name ~= nil then
				touching = true
			end
		end
	end)
end)

script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
	touching = false
end)
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2

I’m very confused on why you’re doing key input like that iv never seen it like that before lol.

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, gpe)
     if gpe then return end
     if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
     end
end)

This is a more normal way of writing it.

Side note I just now saw you’re doing PlayerAdded which would indicate this is running from a server script. Key input runs client side > since its player specific.

3

Well, the touched event doesn’t work in localscripts afaik; so there’s one issue, and also if this is in a serverscript; there is no way to get uis from there.

4

This is in a script in the object that is being touched

5

Is this a local or server script? If it’s a local script, then it won’t run if parented to a part in the workspace. If it’s a server script, then you can’t get player input.

6

I recommend using Remote Events which allow you to access the server from the client. For example.

Local Script:

--Services
local RS = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')
local UIS = game:GetService('UserInputService')

--Remote Events
local sendTouched = RS:WaitForChild('Touched') --In this case it would be the remote event.

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
      if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
          sendTouched:FireServer() --Fires to the server script so when the key is pressed it can be used from the server
      end
end)

Server Script:

--Services
local RS = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')

--Remote Events
local sendTouched = RS:WaitForChild('Touched') --In this case it would be the remote event.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local humanoidHit = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		if humanoidHit ~= nil then
			if hit.Parent.Name == Player.Name ~= nil then
				touching = true
			end
		end
	end)
end)

sendTouched.OnServerEvent:Connect(function() --The remote event from the client so when the key is pressed this event will run.
          script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function()
          touching = false
      end)
end)

A lot more better than what you are doing, of course this is an example and may not work which is my mistake. I recommend you look at the document for Remote Events.

7

.Touched can be used on both the client and server.

8

I tried this and it works, but the problem is that after the f key is pressed once, it keeps firing the remote event when duplicated parts are touched. I tried with some debounce kind of things, but it didn’t work. I honestly have no idea what to do next, do you have any ideas that could help?