how do i make a bullet not damage the one who fired it

[errant eagle]

i made a gun, it works perfectly, i made the script for the bullet where if it touches someone it damages them, and it works except it damages also the one who fired it while they are moving. i tried to counter that with an objectvalue but it still doesn't work. (also the bullet gets fired in workspace)

[olive smelt]

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[lean gate]

thats a terrible way to do hit detection

u should be doing raycasts

BUT

uh

what is script.Parent.Value

[errant eagle]

the objectvalue

[lean gate]

ye ye but what is it set to

[errant eagle]

the player

the character of the player

[lean gate]

r u sure that its the char?

print it

rq

[proper garden]

thats a terrible way of doing it no offense

also they're still different objects even if their name are the same

[lean gate]

my idea would be just store players name

[proper garden]

id get the player from the tool since im assuming its a tool

[errant eagle]

im doing it the classic way

[proper garden]

idk what classic way that is

[proper garden]

then id use getplayerfromcharacter

[lean gate]

so what does it print

[proper garden]

and id check if THAT is equal to hit.parent

[errant eagle]

nvm i realized my mistake i forgot to put .value after the value

[lean gate]

lol

[proper garden]

its still not going to work

[errant eagle]

it works fine

[lean gate]

it could

worst with accessories

tho

would not damage if hits accessory

[proper garden]

if hit.Parent ~= script.Parent.Value then

[lean gate]

cuz it hits handle

[proper garden]

im assuming hit.Parent is the character you hit

[lean gate]

thats what he does

[proper garden]

idk what script.parent.value is but the character is not a value

therefore they cannot be the same instance

[proper garden]

yeah i quoted it

[lean gate]

just

dont confuse him more

[errant eagle]

no i put if hit.Parent ~= script.Parent.Value.Value now and it works

[lean gate]

if it works it works

even tho he shouldnt use this at all

[proper garden]

out of curiosity

[lean gate]

so if u gonna want make it way better pls use raycasts

😭

[errant eagle]

can u recommend a different system then

[lean gate]

its like 10 lines

[lean gate]

raycast

[proper garden]

print hit.Parent and script.Parent.Value.Value plz

@errant eagle

[lean gate]

like he said
Value is character of shooter

[proper garden]

and their classnames

[lean gate]

bro stop confusing him more 😭

[errant eagle]

idk how to do that i coded with raycasts only one time and forgot how to work with it again

[lean gate]

how do u shoot bullet?

theres tutorials tho

[proper garden]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1357692100216488108/1357695106525954148/5cfd2932e08f8f80c4e01d819f01d41e.gif

[lean gate]

all i said is to stop confusing him...

[proper garden]

is printing something confusing

[errant eagle]

local script, remoteevent and server script

[proper garden]

his code shouldnt work objectively

even if he says it works, i dont believe it

[lean gate]

and it works

and should

bud

Value is set to Charcter of shooter

hit.Parent is character of hit

[proper garden]

what even is value

stringvalue?

[lean gate]

read

object value

he said that

[proper garden]

objectvalue right right

ohh i see now

yeah ive never seen somebody use objectvalues before

[lean gate]

a tool or mouse?

[proper garden]

you should reconsider, @errant eagle but at the same time its your choice on whether or not you want to since it works anyway

[errant eagle]

it works perfectly

[proper garden]

yeah i noticed now

you used a objectvalue

[lean gate]

so a tool

[errant eagle]

yea

and the bullet goes towards the mouse

[proper garden]

but if you could get the shooter character in the first place why did you put it in an objectvalue

[errant eagle]

thats what the localscript is for

[proper garden]

adding a layer of complication

[errant eagle]

cuz the bullet is in workspace, not the character or the gun

so how would u parent it

[lean gate]

ball

do u know basics

or bit more advanced

[errant eagle]

kinda

[errant eagle]

kinda

[proper garden]

ohh you put the script in the bullet

[errant eagle]

yea

[proper garden]

i wouldnt do that personally but it makes sense why you'd use objectvalue for it now

much more convenient

[lean gate]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-make-a-raycasting-gun/723716

if u got any questions lmk

[errant eagle]

the thing is raycasts spawn immediately and damage the player, i want the bullet to first reach the player to damage. also i need bullets to be an object cuz i'm working on a game where not only players will be damaged, but "custom enemies" too which don't use humanoids so they need to be touched by actual bullets to be damaged

[lean gate]

i see

that would be bit harderr

so fair enough if u wanna keep using your system

its not best but if its enough for u go ahead

[proper garden]

raycasts can damage npcs as well

also they can have delays as well

personally i wouldnt use physics based bullets for a gun system

theres a lot of complications involved

if you do wish to see the bullet travel though, i suggest looking into fastcast

[errant eagle]

that wouldnt quite work, let's say a sniper was far away from their enemy, and they manage to kill him, but it would have the same delay as if it was like 2 studs in range. not very realistic is it?

[proper garden]

thats fair

theres probably some way to add bullet travel time to raycasts or whatever, plenty of games do it

but in your shoes i'd probably just learn fastcast

it does exactly what you want

dummies vs noobs uses it

join their game and test out recon sniper on an open terrain map

[proper garden]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-do-i-make-bullet-travel-using-raycast/951981
https://www.reddit.com/r/roblox/comments/8o6zw8/how_do_i_make_bullet_drop_using_raycasting/

[olive smelt]

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[errant eagle]

also raycasts aren't actual objects and you can't set properties to them, which is a problem for these old systems which i'm using

[proper garden]

well thats where the vizualizer comes in

raycasts by themselves are invisible nonexistent thin lines

but you can create part vizualizers like the one in the tutorial that the other guy sent you

you can also just do the tank exploding thing in the gun script itself if you want, maybe making it look good/less messy by using modulescripts

i wouldnt go down that route though

your current tactic is good

[errant eagle]

thanks

i'll look into raycasting and stuff

[proper garden]

also its very complicated

if you want to make a gun system like in the big games

its gonna take a lot of effort

i was making my own at some point but i kinda got suck at the ping part

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[proper garden]

with the help of a few posts, i found out how to combat it though

[proper garden]

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[spark zealot]

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[proper garden]

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