How to calculate hits outside of workspace?

[muted tusk]

I am working on a fighting module and i'm using lag compensation, I have information about players ~20 studs away at the timestamp (servertimenow - half of players ping), I just want to know how to calculate if a hit happened without moving anything in the real workspace

[chrome geyser]

How are you detecting hits?

[visual zodiac]

just record sum movements

like hitbox datas ig

[visual zodiac]

wow a staff replying to scripting help

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[chrome geyser]

most helpful s2

[visual zodiac]

:>

[muted tusk]

I am not detecting hits yet, thats what i want to do, the Lag Comp module returns players at a timestamp and their positions

I just want to compare it to the hitbox to find if it is inside the hitbox

im thinking about using pointtobjectinspace

whatever its called

[chrome geyser]

Alright I don't have very much experience with melee combat and such

But the goal seems simple enough

You're just trying to see if a point is within any hitboxes right

[muted tusk]

yeah

but I cannot do it in the workspace since it uses past player positions for it

[chrome geyser]

Alright this probably isn't the most efficient or cleanest solution but you could just loop through all players in the game and then use a simple mathematical approach to check if the point is in their hitbox

[muted tusk]

I am doing a modified version of that

but i've optimized it up abit by only calculating for players like 20 studs in magnitude away from the player

[chrome geyser]

Alright

So yeah

easiest approach would be like you mentioned

Use PointToObjectSpace to convert the point into the hitbox's object space

[muted tusk]

just gotta find out a way to actually do that

since i never used it before

[chrome geyser]

Then check if the point's X Y and Z are smaller than or equal to half the size of the box

[chrome geyser]

Here

[muted tusk]

ill include a slight buffer tho

[chrome geyser]

then just increase the size of the hitbox

[muted tusk]

yeah

thanks for help

[chrome geyser]

local pointPosition = ...
local hitboxCFrame = ...
local hitboxSize = ...

local pointPosObjectSpace = hitboxCFrame:PointToObjectSpace(pointPosition)

local isInHitbox = math.abs(pointPosObjectSpace.X) <= hitboxSize.X/2 ..etc for all axes

there

thats all you should need

[chrome geyser]

np