How to play an animation on a player that is getting stunned?

[manic narwhal]

I'm really confused as to how to add an animation on a player that gets hit. Can I add it via the server or should I do it by client, and if so, How?

[manic narwhal]

This is the script:

[dawn cargo]

fire remote to their client and play the animation on their client

@manic narwhal

what if person A stuns someone, and then shortly after person B stuns the same person

but they get .IsStunned.Value = false from the first stun from person A, even though person B's stun is still going

think about that

[manic narwhal]

so how would i get it to work on a dummy? (or how would I go about testing without a second actual person)

[dawn cargo]

get what to work

[manic narwhal]

when i try to stun a dummy, it gives me an error because its not an actual client

[dawn cargo]

ah

[manic narwhal]

so how would i play the anim on the dummy

[dawn cargo]

check if the humanoid hit is of a player or nonplayer

if it's of a player fire to their client

if not then play animation on server

[manic narwhal]

ah ok

thank you

[manic narwhal]

also how would you propose i go about fixing the problem highlighted here?

cause now that i think abt it the attacking system works (roughly) the same way, and i haven't run into this problem (although it only comes from one player)

[dawn cargo]

have a folder, whenever something is added to this folder IsStunned gets set to true, and whenever something is removed from this folder - if there's nothing inside this folder IsStunned gets set to false

u can use:

folder.ChildAdded
folder.ChildRemoved

[manic narwhal]

would this be better off as a table then?

[dawn cargo]

yea

all of ur stuff is better off as a table imo

u dont need values for this stuff

[manic narwhal]

oh thats out of my depth 😭

sorry im really new and i can't really wrap my head around modules 😭

[dawn cargo]

np

[dawn cargo]

i dont think u need modules for this

for what im talking about

[dawn cargo]

theyre just a type of script that returns a value

just like a function

[manic narwhal]

yea but its too confusing to write stuff in so i try to avoid them

[dawn cargo]

that's ok

i didnt use modules for a year when i began

[manic narwhal]

oh ok

i'll try the folder solution and ill see how it goes

[dawn cargo]

can i see a video of this light attack if u got it working

😁

[manic narwhal]

uhh yea

is it because its bad...?

[dawn cargo]

no

i just like seeing this kind of stuff

and people working on it

it's exciting

[manic narwhal]

the hitboxes script is really cancerous cause its my first time writing it

[dawn cargo]

the code is chopped tho yea but i forgive u cuz ur new

[manic narwhal]

the input is even worse

[dawn cargo]

np

that's ok

the more u work with the code the greater understanding youll have of it and youll start seeing paths to solutions the more u work on it

[manic narwhal]

true

[dawn cargo]

i honestly got burnt out cuz i was doing skills too and i ran into a problem and i found myself having been stuck on this probelm for MONTHS

[manic narwhal]

there are a lot of things i havent even started to understand and i kinda don't get how i should improve

[dawn cargo]

and since then i just quit coding xD

[manic narwhal]

😭

i followed a buncha tutorials, then they didnt teach me what i needed so i decided to do it myself

[dawn cargo]

but that's mainly because i was handling stuns, cancelling attacks, force launching attacks upon hits - pretty much like how blox fruits does it

[manic narwhal]

that sounds really complicated

[dawn cargo]

it's not really so much complicated, but when all of that stuff mixes together

then it becomes a little bit much to handle (at least for a noob like me)

[manic narwhal]

i totally get it

the blocking code was such a weird thing to learn and combining it with all the other junk was really annoying

[dawn cargo]

ye ive never done blocking

[lean anvil]

** You are now Level 10! **

[manic narwhal]

it was something i couldnt wrap my head around for a while and it had me tearing my hair out

its all math 😭

[dawn cargo]

rly?

hmm

dont u literally just check if someone is blocking then u do reduced damage

[manic narwhal]

yea smth with dotproducts

[dawn cargo]

and for actually using the block it's like any other ability

yea ion think u need all that unless im imaginging something different

[dawn cargo]

for the knockback?

[manic narwhal]

well maybe in the future, but rn its to see if the player is behind the other player

so that attacks will be negated from the front if blocking, but will get hit from behind

[dawn cargo]

ohh lol

my goofy ahh woulda just done a hitbox in front of the character to check if the opponent is behind or in front

[manic narwhal]

that was the first thing i did but i thought about it and it seems like it would be a little laggy / it would get counted as behind from the front if the hitbox is too large

[dawn cargo]

well i wouldnt be using touched

id use getpartboundsinbox

which is like raycasting but an actual box with a given size and cframe

and it's an instant check

[manic narwhal]

oh 😭

ok good to know

[dawn cargo]

so i can instantly check who is behind and who is front of X character

[manic narwhal]

that makes sense, here is the video of the silly hitbox system

[dawn cargo]

oh that's dope

i thought it was gonna be light powers lol

https://tenor.com/view/borsalino-kizaru-vs-monkey-d-luffy-gear-5-gear-fifth-gif-1334874359378353755

[manic narwhal]

it seems to work ok im just praying it isn't too heavy on ping

[dawn cargo]

wdym

[manic narwhal]

yea no its really basic as it is rn i dont have the capacity to script that rn lol

[manic narwhal]

like i hope it doesnt cause a lot of lag

[dawn cargo]

dw it's not that far apart from what u have here, it's easy to make basic element attacks

[dawn cargo]

ah

i wouldnt worry about that if ur beginner

just focus on getting stuff working

[manic narwhal]

looking at the ping graph it seems fine so im gonna do that