How do i make an explosion deal damage to only one player?

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#1 
local explosion = Instance.new("Explosion")
			explosion.DestroyJointRadiusPercent = 0
			explosion.Parent = PlayerSitting.Character
			explosion.Position = PlayerSitting.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
			explosion.Parent = PlayerSitting.Character.HumanoidRootPart

i wanted to make that the player explodes and kills it but doesnt damage other players. how would i ?

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#2

Explosions have a Hit event, which will get all BaseParts in the blast radius. You can go through all these BaseParts and check if they’re a descendant of the player’s character and do damage if true.

Here’s a few ways you can incorporate it:

local explosionConnection
explosionConnection = explosion.Hit:Connect(function(basePart)
	-- Get the character from the base part
	local character = basePart:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model")
	
	-- Does a character exist? Is it is the one we're looking for?
	if not character or character ~= targetCharacter then
		return
	end
	
	-- Damage the humanoid
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
	
	-- Explosion.Hit can return multiple BaseParts that belong to the same character
	-- If you only want to damage the character once, you can just disconnect
	explosionConnection:Disconnect()
end)

And second,

local hitCharacters = {}
explosion.Hit:Connect(function(basePart)
	-- Get the character from the base part
	local character = basePart:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model")
	
	-- Does a character exist? Is it is the one we're looking for? Did we already damage that character?
	if not character or character ~= targetCharacter or table.find(hitCharacters, character) then
		return
	end
	
	-- Damage the humanoid
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
	
	-- Ensure we don't damage the same character again if its BaseParts get detected again
	table.insert(hitCharacters, character)
end)
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#3

umm sorry i didnt understand can you explain it more in depth

#4

also will the player still explode even if i explosion.DestroyJointRadiusPercent = 0 ??

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#5

No, the explosion won’t break any joints if that’s set to 0.

#6

how do i break the player joints then

#7

Set the value to 1 or some non-zero value.

You should really read the documentation.

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#8

but if i set it to one it will damage other players around, which is my probem

#9

Yeah, which is why you need to use the BaseParts returned from the Hit event. You should set the DestroyJointRadiusPercent to 0 (to avoid killing other players) and check if the target character you’re looking for was caught in the explosion. Then you’d set that character’s health to 0 or call BreakJoints().

What part of the code I sent did you not understand?

#10

thanks! i did break joints() and it worked!

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