Help setting up a model for damage

[obtuse pagoda]

I have some models set up in order to help me test models taking damage properly for when I eventually try swapping the players to those models. However, I've only managed to get it to work correctly once and now I don't know how to do it again.

I've added screenshots of how the Rig and the Training Dummy are set up. The Dummy's Humanoid is correctly showing its HP and name, but doesn't take damage.

I'm also including a video of what's happening just in case, as well as the code that handles how hitboxes work below:
(This is a Script in ServerScriptServices)

local createHitbox = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("CreateHitbox")
createHitbox.OnServerInvoke = function(plr, char, damage, size)
    local hitbox = Instance.new("Part")
    hitbox.Parent = workspace
    hitbox.CanCollide = false
    hitbox.Anchored = true
    hitbox.Size = size
    hitbox.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
    hitbox.Transparency = 0.5

    hitbox.CFrame = char.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -5)
    
    game.Debris:AddItem(hitbox, 0.2)
    
    local damageDealt = false
    hitbox.Touched:Connect(function(hit, processed)        
        if hit.Parent.Name ~= plr.Name and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and not damageDealt then
            local dmgMult = tonumber(hit.Parent:GetAttribute("dmgMult"))
            
            damageDealt = true
            hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"):TakeDamage(damage * dmgMult)
        end
    end)
end```

Follow-Up

I guess as a TL;DR I just need help understanding everything that is needed for a character to be "ready" to be set as a player's character/model and just in general to take damage (for NPCs for example)

[spark socket]

i would suggest using raycast instead of part

and for the damage

FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

heres the issue

FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")

this will help

@obtuse pagoda

[tropic rain]

the only thing that is needed for a character to be "ready" to take damage, is a humanoid.

[obtuse pagoda]

is that worth it if it's for melee? since that's mostly what I have these set up for

I know raycast is good for ranged weapons like guns n stuff but everywhere I look says parts tend to be fine for this

and I assume some other games that show hitboxes like idk Pillar Chase use something similar since those do just show you the big boxes used for damage

not to say I don't believe you, just saying why I used parts instead

[obtuse pagoda]

weird then, since it's in there but nothing was really happening, I'm gonna try the fix Magma Lord has suggested and let you guys know if it works

don't know if this will help, but I decided to add a line for print(hit) in the code and it'll print stuff just fine for the rigs, but it won't print anything when I try the same thing on the dummy

all the parts on the dummy have CanTouch set to true

[tropic rain]

use workspace:findpartsinpart instead of part.touched

[obtuse pagoda]

that doesn't seem to exist anymore, I'm getting deprecated functions called FindPartsInRegion3 and the new one it directs to is WorldRoot:GetPartBoundsInBox()

unless you mean something else

[tropic rain]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/WorldRoot#GetPartsInPart

[obtuse pagoda]

ah it's in worldroot

myb

[tropic rain]

but ye the box one is better since you dont need a pointless part

[obtuse pagoda]

that sounds good

I guess quick question before I go

[tropic rain]

but also if you cant handle cframes then the part one is better for beginners

[obtuse pagoda]

so, again I know raycasting is good for ranged weapons but is it also good for melee, since that's most of what I'm coding atm

[tropic rain]

these are getpartsinbox is a raycast

[obtuse pagoda]

I'm more than willing to take a few days to learn both, but just wanna ask to know where to start

[winged wadi]

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[obtuse pagoda]

hi mee6

[tropic rain]

more accurately they're called spatial queries

[obtuse pagoda]

I see

I assume it works as like

[tropic rain]

i.e there's no difference between getpartboundsinradius and spherecast with 0 length

[obtuse pagoda]

a raycast but instead of a straight line it check in a box?

[tropic rain]

except maybe that the getpartboundsinradius gives all parts it touches, whereas the raycast/spherecast returns one result.

[obtuse pagoda]

hm I'm not aware of what this is yet, I'll do some more research

[tropic rain]

spherecast is a raycast with volume

[obtuse pagoda]

if it's not too much to ask where's a good starting point for learning this?

[obtuse pagoda]

makes sense

[tropic rain]

there's other shapes too like blockcast and shapecast

[tropic rain]

google

and the docs

just read random docs pages

[obtuse pagoda]

fair yeah lol

[tropic rain]

and then put them into practice

[obtuse pagoda]

I moreso meant if there's a good video on it as well

[tropic rain]

that step is the most important, you can read the docs all you want but you still learn nothing if you don't try it out.

[obtuse pagoda]

but I can totally work w just the docs, thank you

[obtuse pagoda]

ofc ofc

[tropic rain]

same for tutorials. dont just blindly copy+paste.

take the tutorial's idea, and make it your own.

[obtuse pagoda]

I try to avoid it yeah

[tropic rain]

deliberately go out of your way to do things differently to the tutorial

[obtuse pagoda]

the dummy model I'm using is from the marketplace and it came with a script for damage numbers, but it didn't really work initially anyways and from what I read it was only to show each individual number

so while fixing it I also made it do like cumulative damage since I think it'd be good for a player to know how much total damage they've done to someone

alright well I'm gonna leave this post open until tomorrow, gonna try and read up on what you've mentioned and if I can get it to work I'll post it in here and close the post

and if I run into any issues I can't figure out I'll bring em up too