Linear Velocity kinda feels choppy.

[fringe fable]

yeah the better option would be to apply impulse from the client or change assemblylinearvelcoity on the client

[placid wedge]

hmm but I feel that would be a hassle since I dont want player to have network client of the part

since its like a sport game

[raven otter]

yea, if they laggy it ruins it for the whole server

[placid wedge]

ye

so any solutions?

like for example how does this game do it?https://www.roblox.com/games/9680091178/Lacrosse-Universe

[fringe fable]

u have no other option but to do that

[placid wedge]

damn

[placid wedge]

what you think about if I get the position of where they shooting towards and tween/lerp the ball to tgat location?

[fringe fable]

this is what i do

we use the server to tell teh clients where the ball should be at position x and time x then the clients use that information to position the ball to where it should be

to make it smooth we use fancy effects to mask it lol

[placid wedge]

? why you giving the client to do that?

[fringe fable]

so that its minimal communication between server and client

because otherwise remember each time the part changes position on the server that position needs to be send to all clients

[placid wedge]

but wouldnt that make it exploitable tho

[fringe fable]

for each client yeah

but if the client messes up their own client who cares thats their problem to deal with

[placid wedge]

hmm

didnt really understand that solution

[fringe fable]

client insantly fires their ball or whatever locally n tells the server

server then sends back information to tell everyone where that ball is at currently

and after that all clients correct the ball to the current position using a cool style or just set to the current position

[placid wedge]

aha but problem is that ball can be caught, intercepted and stuff in game

[fringe fable]

we do this in the server

but the client balls purely visual

only the servers ball will have hitboxs the clients ball only tries to play catch up with the servers ball

[placid wedge]

so basically have a ball on the server which is invisible but on the client that clientball replicates that server balls pos and stuff=

[fringe fable]

ye

it doesnt actually have to be a ball it can be a raycast or anything

[placid wedge]

aha ok

[fringe fable]

if u want to use a physical ball that uses .Touched and physics movers u can set the owner of the ball to the throwing player and use velocity and apply impulse like that

this is exploitable so we need to run sanity checks on the server to ensure they cannot cheat too much

the way u do that is u ask the client what they hit and then u check if it was possible for them to hit if it was then u do ur thing

well both methods are exploitable and both requires this check lol

[placid wedge]

i mean could I use lerp?

what would look best in a sport game?

[fringe fable]

why dont u use physics movers just set the owner of the ball to the client shooting

[placid wedge]

i wouldnt know where to start with sanity checking that

[fringe fable]

the problem is the akward movement u get when the network ownership of the ball changes

[placid wedge]

i never tried so I dont know

[fringe fable]

we track the positions of the client's character in the server based on their speed and the balls speed we check if it is possible to hit the player with the given speed of the ball

[placid wedge]

aha

[fringe fable]

we can also check for direction as well

but remember these checks are not too accurte

so u must have leniency included

the posiiton of the player on the server and on the client can be off

[placid wedge]

ye