help me with some basic scripting thing

[steel glacier]

Hello, I'm new to luau and scripting/game development in general. I inserted an script inside a human model, with the idea of turning off the colliders by using CanCollide = false. The thing is, because of this is considered an humanoid, the properties of all the MeshParts will be reseted when entering the game, so turning all of them to false by hand won't work. This also means that the script will load first than the MeshParts in the model.

The script I made works, but obviously, making it so the task will wait 1.5s before executing is not a good practice at all. I need to do so the script only executes when its sure that all the MeshParts inside the model has been fully loaded, not before, not after. May I get some help?

task.wait(1.5)

for i, part in ipairs(partsAhh) do
    if part:IsA("BasePart") then
        part.CanCollide = false
    end
end

[rocky solar]

If u delete the task.wait(1.5) the script gives any error?

[steel glacier]

nope

It simply doesn't work and the npc has its colliders = true

[shell orbit]

So theres easy way to do so

theres .ChildAddedevent

and ..DescendantAdded

Just connect to descendantadded event

change there

and when script first runs get all descendants and run on them (cuz some might load before script)

[steel glacier]

I'll try that

[echo cove]

waitforchild

[steel glacier]

That won't work

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[steel glacier]

waitforchild will only wait for the container (the model) but won't for the descendants of it

[unborn warren]

Use
PlayerAdded:Connect()
and
CharacterAdded:Connect()

[steel glacier]

Ahh, you mean for the model?

So I treat him as a player or?

[unborn warren]

My apologizes

I thought youre talking bout player model

Im pretty sure that WaitForChild should work

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[steel glacier]

waitforchild will only wait for the container (the model) but won't for the descendants of it

._.

I alr said that

cause I've tried

is there even a way I can use WaitForChild referring to all the meshparts of the model?

[unborn warren]

No

U must loop throught them in order to check if all parts are loaded

Or

Just check if PrimaryPart is loaded

The simplest way might be checking if primary part of a model is loaded because it might mean that all of the part also are

If you want to be sure make custom function that loops throught all instances in your model

[steel glacier]

how

I've tried everything

[steel glacier]

yes, already tried

it doesn't work

[shell orbit]

Cap

[steel glacier]

w8

It doesn't even load the childs of the model

They don't count

It seems they load faster than the script

lemme take cap rq

I deleted it

where do I put the Script

it'll be a normal script that will print "ChildAddedEvent Works" just to check if it works

whatever

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[steel glacier]

This is with the script on the model

[shell orbit]

nmaybe it loads before

[shell orbit]

thats y i said this

[steel glacier]

w8

[steel glacier]

I'm gonna try what you said again, I just tried this, it doesn't work

[shell orbit]

Thats definetly not what i suggested

[steel glacier]

But .ChildAdded only will trigger when the first child appears

[shell orbit]

no

any

added

[steel glacier]

yeah, I mean

any of them, yes, but I need ALL of them to be fully loaded

to then use this

    if childs:IsA("BasePart") then
        childs.CanCollide = false
    end
end```

[shell orbit]

local woman = workspace.woman

woman.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
if child:IsA("BasePart") then child.CanCollide = false end
end)

for i,v in woman:GetChildren() do
if v:IsA("BasePart") then v.CanCollide = false end
end

It might be childAdded

i forgot the capitalization

[steel glacier]

you can't call for child

in the second function

cause the first one ends

Ok so, I'm not an expert

can you send me a code that should work so I can learn from it?

I've tried everything

[shell orbit]

what

[steel glacier]

what is child?

I'm asking

[shell orbit]

oh right

ye fixed whatever

[steel glacier]

No, it doesn't work

But I found the solution

[shell orbit]

any errors

?

[steel glacier]

nope

[shell orbit]

what was it

[steel glacier]

ok so this is the one u tried

am I right?

[shell orbit]

ig?

[steel glacier]

well it doesn't work. Apparently Roblox objects load in different ways depending on if its the first or the second time you've entered the server. It basically reutilices the previous version of the model and makes a new one in every new "server" created. So all this time we've been "calling" for the previous version or something like that i don't fucking know I'm still trying to understand.

I asked chatgpt 1 million times just for curiosity and it gave me a code that worked the first time, and the second didn't, but the third did, and the fourth did... etc...

Until I polished some stuff and I got this code, that must be a localScript and must be on StarterCharacter/PlayerScripts.

by using task.spawn that I've never used

btw, print shows only 7 children

The model has like 21

[steel glacier]

nvm it works without using task.spawn

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[unborn warren]

The most unoptimal way

[steel glacier]

I'm all ears, friend

If you can give me a better solution, I'll do it

[unborn warren]

.

I told you

[steel glacier]

what's a primary part?

and how do I check it

I told u, I got 3 days into scripting

[steel glacier]

how bro felt after that

sir I'm waiting for your response

[unborn warren]

Sorry

I was doing something

[steel glacier]

ok

[unborn warren]

Go in model properties and there is a PrimaryPart you should probably set

[steel glacier]

nobody told me abt PrimaryPart

[unborn warren]

Its a main part of a model, and origin of a model

But whatever

[steel glacier]

It is the HumanoidRootPart

this?

[unborn warren]

Yea

Leave it be

Check if this part is just loaded

[steel glacier]

so if the HumanoidRootPart is loaded, it means that the model has been fully loaded?

[unborn warren]

Probably

That's the easieast way to make it

[steel glacier]

I do that inside a script inside the Model right?

smt like this?

[unborn warren]

Duh

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[unborn warren]

But i'm curious

Why do u want to set all of the parts so they wont collide?

Is your npc is anchored?

[steel glacier]

Duh what??

Something like that?

Because that doesn't work either

[unborn warren]

LOL

[steel glacier]

that was the code u wanted?

fr I want to find some other way to do it

[unborn warren]

Well, that was prolly the easiest way to do it

Gimme a second then

@steel glacier But i still dont know your purpose

What are u trying to attempt

[steel glacier]

nothing

[unborn warren]

Your npc has name ghost so prolly smth related with zero collisions

[steel glacier]

literally nothing, I just want to be able to walk through

yes

basically that

the challenge was to make his canCollide properties = false

while having an humanoid as a child

[unborn warren]

Uh

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[unborn warren]

The only part in our characters that has collisions on is a torso

Just look for a torso and disable its collisions

[steel glacier]

yes ik

[unborn warren]

simple as that

[steel glacier]

u can't

[unborn warren]

What...

[steel glacier]

because of having humanoid as a child, the game restart its properties

try it yourself

[unborn warren]

U got me here

[steel glacier]

yes man 😂 that was the start of the problem

[unborn warren]

Give me 5 minutes

[unborn warren]

@steel glacier

That's the most optimal way i've found

local character: Model = script.Parent
local Humanoid: Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")


task.delay(2, function()
    for _, part in character:GetChildren() do
        if part:IsA("BasePart") then
            part.CanCollide = false
        end
    end
end)

Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Physics)

If u set humanoids state to Physics it won't change any properties for character if he changes a state

But its at cost so he cant move tho

But u cant skip this changestate part

It shouldn't interrupt tbh

[steel glacier]

I need him to be movible

[steel glacier]

Does this apply to all humanoids?

[unborn warren]

Then delete part with changing state

[unborn warren]

???

Get all npc's in a table and loop throught them in task.delay function if u want them to be non colliable on run time

Use CollectionService tbh

Its easier to get all things u want in one place

Tag your npc's with tag dunno "npc" and look for all of the objects with this tag

[steel glacier]

this is not good

I told you, I've tried making a task.wait(2), but in a normal game, I don't know how many items are going to load, so it's not sure that the model will be loaded in 2 seconds

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[echo cove]

waitforchild():getchildren

ez

[unborn warren]

You can use client -> server communication

but that's too much of a work and not worth it

[steel glacier]

yes brother u're so smart

[steel glacier]

I ended up using a localScript

and It worked

[echo cove]

It was not in local script???

That explains a lot

[unborn warren]

Explains a lot...