Raycasts, again

[solar tinsel]

trying to fire the raycasts every heartbeat when the tool is activated, I'm getting a bit frustrated abt how it's not working

[civic bobcat]

is anything printing from print(ray) when you test?

[solar tinsel]

yes

[civic bobcat]

what else is shown in the output?

if the raycast is returning nil it could be that its not hitting anything. The direction Vector3.new(0.5,0.5,0.5) is very small which means it will only go less than 1 stud before ending the raycast i think

[solar tinsel]

the problem is that it doesnt fire appropraitely

like

[civic bobcat]

do you want it to only start the raycasting once the attribute activated is set to true?

[solar tinsel]

yeah

[civic bobcat]

ok you can try this instead

local hitbox = script.Parent
local tool = hitbox.Parent
local runservice = game:GetService("RunService")
local attachments = hitbox:GetChildren()
local hitevent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Hitbox_Activation
local rayhitbox = nil -- initialize variable for runservice connection here

hitevent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr,state)
    print(state)
    if state == "playing" then
        hitbox:SetAttribute("Activated", true)
    elseif state == "stopped" then
        hitbox:SetAttribute("Activated", false)
    end
end)

local function startRaycast() -- create function to start raycasting connection
    if rayhitbox~=nil then return end
    rayhitbox = runservice.Hearbeat:Connect(function()
        for i,v in attachments do -- dont need pairs anymore in roblox i dont think but u can if u want
            if v:IsA("Attachment") then
                local ray = workspace:Raycast(v.WorldCFrame.Position, Vector3.new(0.5,0.5,0.5))
                print(ray)
            end
        end
    end)
end

local function stopRaycast() -- create function to stop raycasting connection
    if rayhitbox==nil then return end
    rayhitbox:Disconnect()
    rayhitbox = nil
end

hitbox.AttributeChanged:Connect(function(attr)
    if attr == "Activated" and hitbox:GetAttribute("Activated") == true then
        startRaycast()
        print('connected')
    elseif attr == "Activated" and hitbox:GetAttribute("Activated") == false then
        stopRaycast()
        print('disconnected')
    end
end)

[solar tinsel]

Lord have mercy

[civic bobcat]

i just created a function for starting and stopping the runservice connection lol

lmk if it works or not

[solar tinsel]

oh

functions

I never use those

unless i'm in python

smh vro thx, let me try it out

[civic bobcat]

wow i would think functions are essential for almost everything

[solar tinsel]

exactly

I'm just like new to lua

so it hasn't set yet

[civic bobcat]

it also helps with readability and scalability. In that specific code you dont have to use functions since you only call them in one spot. But its usually better to

[solar tinsel]

I'll make sure to use them a lot more

thx man