Really quick blog post here tonight on how to detect collisions between Humanoids in Roblox. My script is named DetectCollisionsBetweenHumanoids and I’ve placed this script under ServerScriptService. Please note, that I have some code in my example which displays text on the users screen whenever a collision is detected, you can ignore this part of the code which displays that a collision has occurred on the screen:
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| -- DisplayTextModule is some code I use to display text on screen for testing, if you see this in a code snippet, ignore this part | |
| local DisplayTextModule = require(script.Parent.Parent.StarterGui.ScreenGui.Frame.TextLabel.DisplayTextModuleScript) | |
| local Players = game:GetService("Players") | |
| -- Works for R15, not sure if this works for R6 or not | |
| local function partIsHumanoid(part) | |
| if part.Name == "Head" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "UpperTorso" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LowerTorso" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftFoot" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftLowerLeg" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftUpperLeg" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightFoot" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightLowerLeg" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightUpperLeg" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftHand" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftLowerArm" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "LeftUpperArm" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightHand" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightLowerArm" then | |
| return true | |
| elseif part.Name == "RightUpperArm" then | |
| return true | |
| else | |
| return false | |
| end | |
| end | |
| local function onPlayerAdded(player) | |
| local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait() | |
| local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") | |
| humanoid.Touched:Connect(function(otherPart) | |
| local timestampStr = tostring(os.time(os.date("!*t"))) | |
| if partIsHumanoid(otherPart) then | |
| DisplayTextModule.Display("Collision w/ R15: " .. otherPart.Name) | |
| end | |
| end) | |
| end | |
| Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded) |