What is the best way to get the character who touched a brick?

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Hi, this question is short but, I wanna know what’s the best way to get the character who touched a brick?

To elaborate, when a player touches a brick, it’s usually a part that is parented to the player’s character, but sometimes it is the child of a part that is parented to the player’s character, and I was wondering what’s the most reliable or easy way to get around this issue?

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Here is how you would do it to get the character (Put inside the brick):

debounce = false

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   local human = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

  if human then
      if debounce == false then
            debounce = true
            local character = human.Parent
            wait(1)
            debounce = false
      end
  end
end)
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I recommend you using a debounce tho!!

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The way I would do it, is to detect whether or not the Touched Character has a humanoid in it, therefore meaning it is a players character, unless you have a game full of bots wondering around.

function touchedChar(hit) -- Creating a function
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then -- Detects a humanoid inside the player's character
script.Parent.Transparency = 1 -- Making something happen when a part is touched
end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(touchedChar)-- Calling the function
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Yeah good point, I added one real quick.

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Use GetPlayerFromCharacter using the hit.Parent. So it won’t work on NPCs. And then you can use the character, because you know it’s a real player.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect (function(hit)
   if(game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) or game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent.Parent)) then
      --Do stuff here.
   end
end)

If you know it’s a player, then you know the hit is obviously the character, because it got it from there.

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Here’s a simple way,

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then

--what you wanna do

end

If you want to add debounce

debounce = false

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and debounce == false then
-- whatever u want to do
debounce = true
wait(howlongyouwantdebouncefor)
debounce = false
end
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All the above are good, but If you want to be extra.

local touched;
local cooldown = 4;

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function( hit )
     if hit:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model"):FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") and not debounce then
         touched = true;
         wait(cooldown)
         touched = false;
     end;         
end);

if you want to check if it a player in addition to that, you can use what @LightningLion58

local playersService = game:GetService("Players");

local touched;
local cooldown = 4;

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function( hit )
     local player = playersService:GetPlayerFromCharacter(  hit:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model") );
     if player and not debounce then
         touched = true;
         wait(cooldown);
         touched = false;
     end;         
end);
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