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[RESOLVED]Why isn't this damage brick not taking away health?

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XxDarkMiragexX 45
9 years ago

I wrote a script to make the player take 1 damage every .1 seconds. I thought using a while true do would be a correct way to do it, but apparently it isn't

local SP= script.Parent


local function steppedOn(part)
    local Parent = part.Parent
    if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Parent) then
        while true do
            Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(1)
            wait(.1)
        end
    end
end

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Answered by
dknj11902 60
9 years ago

You didn't link the function 'steppedOn' with the Touched event!

This is how you use the Touched event: SP.Touched:connect(steppedOn) Add the line above to your code and it should work just fine!

However, that while loop should loop forever since there is no 'break' to it. To counter this problem, you must add 'break' with an if statement checking: if the player's health is greater than 0, take 1 damage; otherwise, break the loop since it has no use anymore. This is how:

while true do
    if Parent.Humanoid.Health > 0 then
        Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(1)
    else
        break
    end
    wait(.1)
end

Also, you should use Debounce to prevent overlapping the damage. http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Debounce

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