What is Touchconn?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
1

What the title says. I saw it in a scripting tutorial but I’m not quite sure what it means or does.

2

What tutorial did you use? You need to provide more information.

1 Like
3

Sorry, this fireball tutorial Ill post the Code in question.

local Fireball = game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild("FireBall")

game.ReplicatedStorage.Fireball.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	
	local Character = Player.Character
	local NewFireball = Fireball:Clone()
	NewFireball.CFrame = Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
	
	
	local BodyVelocity = Instance.new("BodyVelocity")
	BodyVelocity.MaxForce = Vector3.new(5000, 5000, 5000)
	BodyVelocity.Velocity = (Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector*250)
	BodyVelocity.Parent = NewFireball
	
	NewFireball.Parent = workspace
	
	local TouchConn
	
	TouchConn = NewFireball.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			if hit.Parent.Name ~= Player.Name then
				hit.Parent:BreakJoints()
				if TouchConn ~= nil then TouchConn:Disconnect() end
				NewFireball:Destroy()
			end
		end
	end)
	
	wait(3)
	
	if TouchConn ~= nil then TouchConn:Disconnect() end
	NewFireball:Destroy()
end)

it works, just wondering what TouchConn is and w/e

4

TouchConn is just a variable, you mean the connection.

When connecting to a variable and disconnecting it, it means, the touched events gets ‘destroyed’ or not longer will work.
Disconnecting is good for memory puporses aswell, as not disconnecting events might cause memory leaks.

1 Like
5

Ohh thanks silly of me to not realize lol.