Trouble with detecting a specific object in a list

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#1

I am attempting to use the workspace:GetPartsInPart function to detect whether a player is currently standing within a hitbox region. This has successfully yielded me a table of different parts, but I am having an issue checking whether the hitbox part is within that list (the getpartsinpart function is done relative to the player’s humanoidrootpart). Listed below is my current code:

while wait(.1) do
	local touchingParts = workspace:GetPartsInPart(humRoot)
	print(touchingParts)
	print(table.find(touchingParts, "InteriorHitbox"))
end

HumRoot is a defined variable, the table is outputting correctly. My issue is with this line:

print(table.find(touchingParts, "InteriorHitbox"))

This properly prints “nil” when interiorHitbox is not touched, but continues to print “nil” even when it is being touched. I believe it may have something to do with interiorHitbox being listed as an object and not a text string on the list. However, I have no clue how I would go about fixing that.

Overall, I just need to be able to determine if a certain part is present within a workspace:GetPartsInPart list.

If you need any addition information, let me know. I will likely be actively monitoring this post for the next 15 minutes and will periodically check after that. Any and all help or suggestions are appreciated.

#2

To put in simply, it’s printing nil because “InteriorHitbox” is not inside the table provided by :GetPartsInPart. Are you sure that the humRoot instance is inside of your InteriorHitbox? Try instead looping through and printing every part that is inside the table using a for loop. I’m also not too familiar with GetPartsInPart and what it requires for it to detect an object

while wait(.1) do
	local touchingParts = workspace:GetPartsInPart(humRoot)
	print(touchingParts)
	for i,v in pairs(touchingParts) do
		print(v)
	end
end
#3

Your hunch was right. You’re going to have to loop through your table to check the name property.

#4

The entire table prints correctly, and it does list the InteriorHitbox within it. I assume you meant that the issue is with the instance not being in the table at all?

#5

that sounds like a pain but I probably will just have to do that. Thanks for letting me know. I assume its just a for i, v in pairs function that checks the name of each part in the table.

#6 
local caughtHitbox
for _, part in touchingParts do
    if part.Name == "InteriorHitbox" then
        caughtHitbox = part 
        return
    end
end

It shouldn’t be too bad. Keep in mind you may also be able to shrink your table using the OverlapParams argument of GetPartsInPart.

#7

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