ForceField

A ForceField protects a Humanoid from taking damage dealt through the Humanoid:TakeDamage() method and protects BaseParts from having their joints broken due to an Explosion. A new ForceField is created when a character spawns on a SpawnLocation and the SpawnLocation.Duration property is greater than zero.

Damage and Joints#

A ForceField influences the instance it's parented to. When parented to a Model, it protects all of the BaseParts descending from that model. If parented to a BasePart, the part's joints will only be protected if both the part and the part it's connected to also contain a ForceField.

ForceField only protects Humanoids from damage dealt by the Humanoid:TakeDamage() method. Humanoids can still be damaged by setting Humanoid.Health directly. For this reason, it's advised that you use Humanoid:TakeDamage() to assign damage while accounting for force field protection.

Visualization#

When ForceField.Visible is set to true, a particle effect is created. A number of rules determine where this effect will be emitted from:

• When parented to a Model, if the model includes a Humanoid named Humanoid with Humanoid.RigType set to R15, the effect will be emitted from the part named UpperTorso. Otherwise, the effect will be emitted from the part named Torso.
• When parented to a BasePart the effect will be emitted from the part's BasePart.Position.