touchingFire variable getting jjammed at true

[SelfDeclared]

So you have a variable called:

local touchingFire = isTouchingFire.Value

This variable will remain static and not change so what I suggest you doing is set the touchingFire Variable to:

local touchingFire = isTouchingFire

and whenever you want to retrieve the value you do

touchingFire.Value

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

Are you referring to the first prototype of his program?
I noticed that, too, but it does not become an issue in his code.
Every time he wants to retrieve it, he does so correctly.

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

speakin of whch, have you found anything that could make the
event:FireClient(game.Players:FindFirstChild(player.Name), false) not trigger correctly?

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

I’m working on it. It’s weird because it looks like it should run correctly. I’ll keep looking over it.

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

i believe it has something to do with this

if not isPartOfPlayerInHitbox then
	print(player.Name)
	event:FireClient(game.Players:FindFirstChild(player.Name), false)
	table.remove(touchingPlayers, index)
end

i feel like this isn’t properly triggering, thus causiing the event not to fire. there aren’t any errors with the code as far as i know of.

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

Does the printing of player.Name work before the event is fired?

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

yes, somehow for both ways, line 15 and 35. though they don’t fire consistently

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

How not consistently do you mean?

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

every lucky while. this is another reason i think its the code i mentioned above not working, if it does work, it works like a charm, if it doesn’t… you know the drill. i have been at this one thing since 11 am this morning. its currently 9:30 pm

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

Well, that leads me to think it could be an issue with collision detection, which is something I have suspected for a while, particularly because .Touched is not the most reliable.
Although .Touched is mostly reliable for stationary targets, so it would confuse me why it would be an issue (unless your fires are moving around).

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

agreed, these fires are primarily staionary, and only to provide heat.

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

Okay, could you send both the client and server scripts once more.
I’m just gonna keep looking over them until I find what in the world is going on; it’s starting to bother me, too.

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

NOW YOU HAVE A SLIGHT FEEL AS TO HOW I AM FEELING, THIS IS TAKING ME OVER 10 HOURS OF STOP AND START DEBUGGING (blame the stop and start on my ADHD)

@fetviper_4

Server-side:

local firebox = script.Parent
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local event = rs.PlayerTouchedFire

local touchingPlayers = {}

function OnTouched(otherPart)
	-- Checking if the other part is a body part of a player
	if otherPart.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
		if not table.find(touchingPlayers, otherPart.Parent) then
			table.insert(touchingPlayers, otherPart.Parent)
			event:FireClient(game.Players:FindFirstChild(otherPart.Parent.Name), true)
			print(game.Players:FindFirstChild(otherPart.Parent.Name))
		end
	end
end
function OnTouchEnded(otherPart)
	-- index is the position of the player in the table
	local index = table.find(touchingPlayers, otherPart.Parent)
	if index then
		local player = touchingPlayers[index]

		-- Check if any other body parts of the player is touching the hitbox
		local isPartOfPlayerInHitbox = false
		for _, part in firebox:GetTouchingParts() do
			if part:IsDescendantOf(player) then
				isPartOfPlayerInHitbox = true
				break
			end
		end

		-- If player is not inside the hitbox, then remove him from the table 
		if not isPartOfPlayerInHitbox then
			print(player.Name)
			event:FireClient(game.Players:FindFirstChild(player.Name), false)
			table.remove(touchingPlayers, index)
		end
	end
end

firebox.Touched:Connect(OnTouched)
firebox.TouchEnded:Connect(OnTouchEnded)

Client-side:

local heat = 100
local maxHeat = 100
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")
local touchingFire = false
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local event = rs.PlayerTouchedFire

local function updateHeatUI()
	script.Parent.Size = UDim2.new(math.clamp(heat / maxHeat, 0, 1), 0, 1, 0)
	print(heat .."/".. maxHeat)
	print(touchingFire)
end

local function updateTouchingFire(bool)
	--print(game.Players.LocalPlayer .. "fired" .. tostring(bool))
	if bool then
		if bool == true then
			touchingFire = true
		else
			touchingFire = false
		end
	end
end

runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(deltaTime)
	if touchingFire == true and math.round(heat) <= maxHeat then
		heat = heat + 2 * deltaTime
	elseif touchingFire ~= true and math.round(heat) >= 0 then
		heat = heat - 1 * deltaTime
	else
		heat = heat
	end
	updateHeatUI()
end)

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(updateTouchingFire)

ignore the commented out print line, that was giving me some trouble

[SelfDeclared]

If you are willing to give my script a shot with your initial code.

Client:

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local heat = 100
local maxHeat = 100
local isTouchingFireValue = Player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("IsTouchingFire")
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local function updateHeatUI()
	script.Parent.Size = UDim2.new(math.clamp(heat / maxHeat, 0, 1), 0, 1, 0)
	print(heat .. "/" .. maxHeat)
	print(isTouchingFireValue.Value)
end

runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(deltaTime)
	if isTouchingFireValue.Value then
		heat = math.clamp(heat + 2 * deltaTime, 0, maxHeat)
	else
		heat = math.clamp(heat - 1 * deltaTime, 0, maxHeat)
	end

	updateHeatUI()
end)

Server:

local firebox = script.Parent
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local touchingPlayers = {}

function onTouched()
    local currentlyTouching = {}
    for _, Part in pairs(firebox:GetTouchingParts()) do
        
        local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Part.Parent)
        
        if Player and not table.find(currentlyTouching, Player) then
            table.insert(currentlyTouching, Player)
        end
    end
    
    for _, Player in ipairs(touchingPlayers) do
        local IsTouchingFire = Player.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("IsTouchingFire")

        if not IsTouchingFire then continue end
        if table.find(currentlyTouching, Player) then
            IsTouchingFire.Value = true
        else
            IsTouchingFire.Value = false 
        end
    end
    touchingPlayers = currentlyTouching
end

firebox.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
firebox.TouchEnded:Connect(onTouched)

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

the issue is is that i am using an event not a value.

[SelfDeclared]

Isn’t your initial code a boolean?

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

plus, @NoodleXVIII is working on a solution rn

[fetviper_4 (Viper)]

yeah, that was the prototype i used back in the morning

[SelfDeclared]

You sure you dont wanna try? I can assure you it’ll work

[NoodleXVIII (noodle)]

I keep looking over it and I just can’t seem to find an issue with the server script.
However, I keep coming back to that error regarding bool.
I can almost swear that you have to check if it’s not nil and then change touchingFire to bool.
But if it doesn’t work, then I really am starting to have no idea.