Universal Module Touched Function Problem

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1

So I made this functon in a module a script that takes a part and how much damage you want to do when it is touched but it keeps printing “attempt to index nil with connect”

local hit  = {}

local debounce = false
function hit.DamagePart(part,damage)
	part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit and hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and hit.Parent ~= "Toriel" and not debounce then
			debounce = true
			local hum = hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			hum:TakeDamage(damage)
			wait(1)
			debounce = false
		end
	end)
end


return hit
2

That means part is nil. Try debugging the module and see what values it’s receiving.

3

The script doesn’t know what “part” is, as you passed it in as a parameter in the function. You need to call the function later on in the script, therefore you can define what the part actually is.

-- in the ModuleScript
local hit = {}

local debounce = false
function hit.DamagePart(part,damage)
	part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit and hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and hit.Parent ~= "Toriel" and not debounce then
			debounce = true
			local hum = hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			hum:TakeDamage(damage)
			wait(1)
			debounce = false
		end
	end)
end

return hit

-- in the server-sided script where you are calling the functions in the module
hit.DamagePart(game.Workspace.Part,50) -- both arguments are changeable due to the ModuleScript

This is not the most convenient way if you are going to have a lot of DamageParts, and you should probably look into using for loops to make it more convenient, as it can be annoying to call this function for each part.