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HumanoidRootPart

HumanoidRootPart is the root object exposed by a visible player’s Character Model. It reports ClassName == "Part", but it is a narrow character-state projection rather than a normal Part instance. It is not a separately constructible Vortex class; access it from the character that Vortex exposes:

-- LocalScript
local rootPart = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart

A server Script can read the same projection from the first visible player:

local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()[1]
local rootPart = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart

Confirmed surface

In Vortex Studio 0.3.4, these fields are readable in both a LocalScript and a confirmed server Script:

  • ClassName, with the value "Part";
  • Name, with the value "HumanoidRootPart";
  • Parent, the visible Character Model;
  • Position, a Vector3;
  • Size, a Vector3.

IsA is the only tested method currently exposed. It returns true for "Part", "BasePart", and "Instance", despite the narrow projection surface described below.

The tested ordinary Part fields are unavailable: Anchored, CanCollide, CastShadow, CFrame, Color, Material, Orientation, Rotation, Transparency, and the tested velocity, mass, collision-query, touch, and root-priority fields all read as nil.

The tested Instance, Part, and physics methods—including hierarchy, clone, destroy, attributes, property signals, joints, impulses, mass, and network ownership methods—also read as nil. Changed, Touched, TouchEnded, and the tested hierarchy/lifecycle signals read as nil; none is connectable.

Character-state authority

Writing HumanoidRootPart.Position, HumanoidRootPart.Size, or HumanoidRootPart.Orientation is rejected in both a LocalScript and a confirmed server Script. The current error calls the property read-only in a LocalScript and says character state is server-authoritative, even when RunService:IsServer() reports true.

Consequently, do not use the visible character root part as a server-side teleport, resize, or movement-control target in the current runtime. This is a restriction of the live Character projection; it does not describe ordinary script-created Parts, whose tested transform properties remain writable.

Testing Notes

These observations were verified in Vortex Studio 0.3.4; untested members may still exist in a later runtime release.