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First time making a weapon, What do i do?
Well the title states that this is a request, but it's not, i'm having trouble finding a characters humanoid and damaging it on hit, This is my script, its in a serverscript in a tool, Whats wrong?
local damage = script.Parent.Configuration.Damage.Value
script.Parent.Part.Touched:Connect(function()
local hum = script.Parent.Part:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
hum.Health = - damage
end)
Thanks for reading,
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umm where is this script located? User#32819 0 — 4y
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In the tool itself EllaTheFloofyFox 106 — 4y
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Well, first of all, (almost) every :Connect(function() returns a argument in "function(arg1)" (which of, arg1 is the argument it returns.). In this case, the :Connect(function(arg1) returns the part being hit. (:Connect(function(partBeingHit)). So, knowing that, you can do:
local damage = script.Parent.Configuration.Damage.Value
script.Parent.Part.Touched:Connect(function(partBeingHit)
local hum = partBeingHit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") --most of the cases, the partBeingHit is a leg, a arm, the torso or the head. These limbs are inside a model (thats the player in some cases) and, inside the model, theres the Humanoid. Knowing that, the limbs' parent will be the player model, and, if theres a humanoid in it (some cases there arent), it will subtract the health.
if hum then
hum.Health = - damage
end
end)
But wait, theres a problem here: A error occours in line 6. Well, the maths here are wroten wrong.
if hum then
hum.Health = - damage --wroten wrong
end
the correct way would be:
if hum then
hum.Health = hum.Health - damage --sets the hum.Health as hum.Health and subtracts it by the damage
end
that works. heres the fixed version, without all the explaining:
local damage = script.Parent.Configuration.Damage.Value
script.Parent.Part.Touched:Connect(function(partBeingHit)
local hum = partBeingHit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if hum then
hum.Health = hum.Health - damage
end
end)
Hope that helped.