How do i make a hitbox attached to a dummy that detects when being punched by both arms

[hardy veldt]

im new to coding

[honest blade]

combat games are not for beginners, try something easier like a jumping simulator

[inner ruin]

hmm

are you running this on a localscript?

[trim marlin]

follow this

[hardy veldt]

yes

[hardy veldt]

im not by myself and im only strugling on hitboxes

and hitboxes arent only used for combat games

it will be useful to learn it now

[kindred silo]

well you just answered on your question

[quartz ravine]

maybe a touched event would be better

for a hitbox

[rancid frigate]

No

[hardy veldt]

wdym

[fiery mirage]

** You are now Level 4! **

[hardy veldt]

no they r extremely buggy

but all i want is just some modifications/help to the script so that it detects when both arms and only arms hit it it will detect it and print it

[trim marlin]

they're not

[honest blade]

skill issue

[hardy veldt]

lol

[hardy veldt]

kind of are but besides the point im using GetPartsInPart

[hardy veldt]

but seriously could u help me?

thats why i even came to this channe;

[trim marlin]

that function is used in a different case

you're new; learn the basics

from there you'll go to understand things like this

[hardy veldt]

ok but i have tried touched and it doesnt work well

ok

[trim marlin]

patience

[hardy veldt]

so then how do i make a .Touch script

[hardy veldt]

but how do

i

[trim marlin]

learn

[hardy veldt]

thats why i came here

but ig u also dont know how to

[trim marlin]

what

[honest blade]

yea you got me, we have no idea how how to help, nope, no idea whatsoever, never ever even made a hitbox before, not even once, and probably never will, it just eludes us as to how exactly hitboxes work, much like it eludes you. ig we'll leave this to someone who actually knows what they're doing. hope you find the help you need

[hardy veldt]

no im jst annoyed at him for just saying "learn" besides now im kinda getting it workin

it prints when it collides with the body parts

rn im making it just print when it collides wit harms

arms

[trim marlin]

you're forcing yourself to learn a thing that you'll forget 2 days later you've done this

[inner ruin]

run the damage on a server script

[hardy veldt]

ye i changed it to that

[hardy veldt]

what do u want me to do?

[trim marlin]

learn basics? 😭

[honest blade]

tbh i'm mostly confused what the matter is of "punched by both arms" does that mean at the same time? or is this just a generic battlegrounds hitbox like the one i literally just showed?

[hardy veldt]

the latter

[honest blade]

then yea you need to learn some basics

they're not easy to make

[inner ruin]

plz streamable

[waxen flower]

Yea ts what I hate about new scripters

[hardy veldt]

i write down my scripts

[waxen flower]

What r u tryna do

[hardy veldt]

idk why it didnt show the output but ok

[hardy veldt]

make a hitbox

[waxen flower]

Ok?

[honest blade]

they're tryna make a battlegrounds game

[hardy veldt]

lemme use OBs

[honest blade]

because of course they are...

[hardy veldt]

mo

no i aint

im tryna make a story game

[inner ruin]

they gonna add kj to it

[hardy veldt]

with weapons

[honest blade]

i consider pve combat games the same as battlegrounds it's all the same principle, combat mechanics in general, it's just overrun with references to tsb

so easier to use that language

[hardy veldt]

then what fighting games dont u consider battlegrounds

[honest blade]

all fighting games are battlegrounds

its just easier to use that language

[hardy veldt]

ok but rn all it does is print the part it collides with

how do i restrict it to only the arms

[honest blade]

specifying the difference between punching zombies and punching players doesn't really change the underlying mechanics

[waxen flower]

Make a hitbox module

It's easier and reliable

Reuseable

[hardy veldt]

ok

[honest blade]

most games use hitboxes, not 'touching the arms', and often those hitboxes are much bigger than the arms themselves

[inner ruin]

isnt there like a few of those on dev forum

[waxen flower]

Yea but I js make my own for every game I make

I like making my own stuff tho

Cause I know what I'm going for and what I need

[hardy veldt]

wait was i stupid to make the hitbox on the dummy and not on the arms so whe nit collides with a player or entity it takes their health and plays the taking dmg anim?

[fiery mirage]

** You are now Level 5! **

[waxen flower]

Make a new part every punch

Then destroy it w debris

[hardy veldt]

oh ok i make a new part and its always to the arm

[honest blade]

you kinda need both?

[hardy veldt]

oh ok then thats fine

[waxen flower]

U can js add a weld

And set p0 to hitbox and c0 to Cframe.new(0,0,2)

[hardy veldt]

i used a rigid constraint to attach the hitbox with the dummy

should i change it to weld?

[inner ruin]

i think weld would break

[hardy veldt]

ok

how do i attach stuff to a player?

[waxen flower]

?

[honest blade]

y'know there's a bunch of tutorials on how to make bg/fighting/combat/whatever-you-want-to-call-it games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E02er6mwsrI&list=PLH1di03gos6aX70lrhAVRittXJZaUA9dO&index=1

[waxen flower]

Yo wht

[hardy veldt]

will this show me how to make a hitbox

[inner ruin]

prob

[strange arrow]

Alr

[hardy veldt]

ye?

made it so it prints every time it detects a collision

but how do i make it so it detects the arms and when it does it plays the animation of being hit

[honest blade]

ye, i skipped over it coz i want to use my own techniques but it's a nice rough outline of how to put everything together

[hardy veldt]

u know which parts show how to?

[honest blade]

idk it's somewhere in there

if you just want hitboxes there are tutorials for that too

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+make+hitboxes+in+roblox+studio

[hardy veldt]

thx so much

[honest blade]

hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxYSxENGp-E hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobdgeGstzg hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvGgHogz6g hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmz904QpfxU hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsC8px_oXdM hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0zcUA7OMg hitbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB_R0D9jd3E it's foolish, nigh lazy to ignore all of these free resources

[hardy veldt]

wow alot

the ludius ones r not working for me so ill use the other ones

[strange arrow]

Use the last one

The sparial query one

It is the most beginner friendly in my opinion

[strange arrow]

I would just follow it and

Make a table of hitcharacter

[hardy veldt]

ok thx

imma watch the merto one

first

[strange arrow]

Alr I recommended the sparial query one as that’s what I used when I did my first combat system and he explained it really well in my opinion

[strange arrow]

Just parent it to the hrp

Then move it a bit

[honest blade]

spatial query is the best method because parts are subject to replication, but parts are also more 'tangible' and thus more beginner friendly imo, easier to visualize because it's literally a part, and you'd have to make a part anyway if you want to visualize a spatial query, but that's neither here nor there 🤷

[strange arrow]

Here is the logic of a basic combat system:

it detects for a click on the client and once it detects it plays the animation on the client and fires a event to the server once the event is fired the server handles hitboxes and dmg

[hardy veldt]

ohhhh ok

[hardy veldt]

ok so it just waits fo my click

then it plays m1 dmg

[honest blade]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/WorldRoot#GetPartBoundsInBox is just as good as https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/WorldRoot#GetPartsInPart, but without needing a part to perform the query

[strange arrow]

Basically ye

[honest blade]

what i'd like to know is if it's possible to somehow send instant feedback on hit, i dont think its possible because the server cannot know what was hit until after-the-fact, whereas instant feedback would need to know before the server does, which sounds impossible 😦

and rolling back mispredictions does not sound like a good time

[strange arrow]

Also

[honest blade]

although... 🤔 proper rollback would make it so the client's prediction is always correct... that might work 🤔

[strange arrow]

If ur gonna do vfx then just do it on the server which ISNT optimal as it increases the load but client replication is a more advanced topic so doing it on the server would just work

[hardy veldt]

@honest blade now ik abt all types of spacial queries and how to filter them now how do i attach it to a player/dummy

[hardy veldt]

ur righ he did explain it very well

[hardy veldt]

ok so then it only detects it

wait do i set their parent to not be the workspace but the dummy?

wait i could just use a collision group

[strange arrow]

Yo

[strange arrow]

The hitbox?

[strange arrow]

If ur talking about the hitbox what I would do is set its parent to the humanoidrootpart then use cframes to move it by a couple of studs @hardy veldt

[hardy veldt]

ok thx

so ittl be

part.Parent = HumanoidRootPart?

wait

imma create a variable

for humanoid root part

then make it parent

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local chr = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = chr:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

thats what i did

then i made part.Parent = HumanoidRootPart

its giving me that error

imma find a diff way to make the humaniod root part its parent

[strange arrow]

Hm

[hardy veldt]

was it a problem with the code or what

i changed max parts to 1 cus i only want the arms

now lemme filter out the rest

[hardy veldt]

@strange arrow would there be any other way to attach a hitbox to the player and a hitbox to the dummy so when the collide the dummy plays the getting hit anim and gets damaged

@honest blade

should i maike a collisions group?

[hardy veldt]

@strange arrow @honest blade i made the hitbox a child of players was that good or bad?

[waxen flower]

show code

[honest blade]

don't need code to know that they're trying to use localplayer on the server

[hardy veldt]

no it wasnt local player

its a server script

[hardy veldt]

i got banned on roblox so i dont have it rn