Unanchored part not falling to ground

[RockHead_Plus (Bingus)]

Make a part unanchored and fall after it gets unanchored. Right now, after 2 seconds after the part spawns, the part gets unanchored and should fall, but it doesnt.

The part doesn’t fall, until I walk to it and touch it.

I have tried setting the part to unanchored on client and server, and I have turned off StreamingEnabled.

Is this a roblox bug? Since the part only falls when I touch it. This happens in Studio and the real game. The part is not massless or anything btw.

[RockHead_Plus (Bingus)]

In addition, I’ve looked into adding velocity to the part after I unanchor it with :ApplyImpulse(), but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. From the looks of it, its an issue with the physics not updating but im not sure.

[mc7oof (oof)]

Click on the part, then look at the Property Window.

Does it show Anchored as true or false?

I added a part and it worked as expected:

task.wait(4)

script.Parent.Anchored = false

[ScriptCasual (Scripty)]

local Part = game:GetService("Workspace"):WaitForChild("PARTNAME");

repeat task.wait() until Part ~= nil
warn("Part now Exists");

local function Deactivate(part: BasPart): any
       if part.Anchored == true then
       part.Anchored = false;
       warn("Part unanchored");
else 
       warn("Part is already unanchored");
      end;
end;

task.spawn(Deactivate, Part);

[BendsSpace]

@RockHead_Plus

Is this a roblox bug? Since the part only falls when I touch it.

This sounds just like a network ownership problem. I’ve had this happen before, though I’m not remembering the exact network ownership and properties setup.

The part falls when you touch it probably because the network ownership switches to the client instead of the server. That probably means there is something off on the server side.

Can you share the outline of how you spawn the part (code, description)? Are you creating or changing properties of the part on both the client and server?

From similar topics:

@dukzae

This is because NetworkOwnership. You changed the part to be unanchored on the client, so the physics aren’t applied until the NetworkOwnership is passed onto the client.

@yoolurs

Turns out the reason ReplicationFocus wasn’t working was because the part I was setting was unanchored. Setting ReplicationFocus onto an anchored part fixed the issue for me! Thanks to everyone who tried to help

@Defaultio

You cannot achieve a networked physics change on a part that is anchored on on the server. Unanchoring a part on a client will have no effect on the server or other clients, and may have unexpected effects on the client like you are observing. Calling SetNetworkOwner on an anchored part will throw an error. If you want the unanchoring effect to replicate to all clients, it must be unanchored on the server.

@RefusalMan

rarely happens on my game and it has something to do with locking the network owner to the server after a block gets unanchored, except once you touch it it falls.

TL;DR: Make sure you aren’t just setting the part to anchored on the client (otherwise it doesn’t get physics updates, however you said you tried both, maybe check the code?). If you’re changing the replication focus and/or using streaming enabled, maybe look at that (try turning off streaming enabled to narrow down the problem).

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@ScriptCasual

local Part = game:GetService("Workspace"):WaitForChild("PARTNAME");

repeat task.wait() until Part ~= nil
warn("Part now Exists");

Wait for child will yield until the part is returned, so the repeat/while loop doesn’t do anything.

If you instead add a time out (e.g. :WaitForChild("PARTNAME", 5)) it’s possible for it to not be present after the function finishes executing.

[RockHead_Plus (Bingus)]

Thanks, the solution worked! I set the network ownership and now the part falls to the ground. I have a question though, now that the network ownership is on the client, would the client (exploiters) be able to manipulate the part like its size, or whatever, and be a nuisance?

[BendsSpace]

@RockHead_Plus

would the client (exploiters) be able to manipulate the part like its size, or whatever, and be a nuisance?

They would be able to affect the physics of the part, so they could move it around. They can do a similar thing with their character, which also has client network ownership.

If it becomes a problem, you could add server side checks to limit abuse.