bullets being inconsistent

[iron bay]

im having trouble with my bullets being very inconsistent with detecting when it hits something

[spiral vortex]

are you shooting dummies or avatars with accessories?

[calm slate]

you can try to make a highlighting red when you are aiming at somebody then make a script so that if highlighted enemy got shot then use datastore to detect

[iron bay]

uh they're projectiles

[spiral vortex]

that means its hitscan

[iron bay]

the tween is the shooting thing

[spiral vortex]

answer my question

are you just shooting plain dummies?

[iron bay]

uh its a pvp game

not sure how thats relevant

i can show u the rest of the script hold on

[spiral vortex]

how are you testing that it's not working?

[iron bay]

i was testing with other people, myself, etc

[spiral vortex]

hmm

so ur checking for a humanoid

[iron bay]

its just to make sure whatever im hitting is actually a player

it would be nice if the .touched could detect anchored parts

but since it cant i put in getpartsinpart

it can only detect an anchored part when it also hits another unanchored part but its the best i could think of

if u have an idea on how to make .touched be able to detect anchored parts that would be much appreciated

[shut sundial]

.touched event is just unreliable

u could use runservice to check every frame for and parts inside a bullet every frame

[iron bay]

well its either that or making a bunch of checks with getpartsinpart

which is laggy.

[iron bay]

isnt this going to be laggy?

[shut sundial]

it might be

maybe if ur bullets are thin

u could use raycasting

[iron bay]

the bullets are projectiles though

raycasting would be for hitscans

[shut sundial]

ik but u could check with raycasting in front of the bullet

[iron bay]

ah

[shut sundial]

or maybe make projectiles diffrent than with tween service

[iron bay]

i see what you mean

[iron bay]

how else could you make it

i've seen linear velocity but the part has to be unanchored

[shut sundial]

I heard there was a module called fast cast or smth and it pretty good

[iron bay]

whih means its affected by gravity

[shut sundial]

or use runservice to move and check each frame

[iron bay]

i think i'll just try the runservice

thx

[iron bay]

ok i've tried runservice for a while trying to make it work

but for some reason it seems to make the bullet's damage linger

despite the bullet not even existing

i added an if statement to only make it deal damage when the bullet IS a thing but its still broken

[calm slate]

exactly