Having trouble with touched and anchored

[elfin venture]

I have a part that whenever it touches other parts, makes that part get destroyed, however, it wont work if the part is anchored (the part that touches other parts)

I have it moving towards the part

[uncut vortex]

So you're anchoring the part that's supposed to move?

[elfin venture]

it still moves, but it just doesnt effect the other parts anymore if it is anchored

[uncut vortex]

Is a LocalScript moving the part?

[elfin venture]

no

normal script

[uncut vortex]

You know you don't have to attach a script to a part to delete it yeah?

Any errors or warnings you're seeing?

[elfin venture]

no errors or warning

[fleet river]

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[elfin venture]

I do know that yeah, however I just dumbed it down for the post and testing purposes, it starts making parts slowly transparent then get destroyed

[uncut vortex]

I still think cloning a script is a bit overkill.

But anyway, if the destructable parts are also anchored, the Touched event won't fire.

[elfin venture]

they aren't anchored, also I did have them anchored before and I just tried it again and it destroyed them

[uncut vortex]

If you want things to stay anchored, try GetPartsInPart to get all the things touching the part in some RunService loop.

But if this works great

[elfin venture]

let me try to re-state

I have a part that get moved every half second, when it touches parts it adds a script to them that makes them destroy themselves essentially, however when the moving part is anchored it no longer registers anything when it touches a part after being moved

however I need this part anchored as I am going to make it move through a map, and for that I need no collison on it, so it needs to be anchored

(so it doesnt fall through the map)

[uncut vortex]

Okay, so are the destructable parts currently anchored?

You said they weren't now, so the destructables are not anchored at the moment, but the flood is anchored, yes?

[elfin venture]

they are not currently anchored, it does not matter if they are or not because they will still be destroyed either way

the flood is supposed to be anchored but it no longer works when anchored

[uncut vortex]

I am saying this because anchored parts cannot trigger the Touched event on other anchored parts, so it does matter.

Looked it up, from the docs:

This event only fires as a result of physical movement, so it will not fire if the CFrame property was changed such that the part overlaps another part. This also means that at least one of the parts involved must not be Anchored at the time of the collision.

[elfin venture]

got it, even if the destructible parts are not anchored it does not work

do you want the rblx file

?

or screenshare or smth

[uncut vortex]

So you have to find a different way to handle the flood.

I think it'll be easier if, after you move the flood part, use GetTouchingParts with a TouchInterest object parented to the flood itself so the CanCollide being false won't matter

[elfin venture]

got it Ill try to use that then