Beam doesnt damage on Head (Raycasting)

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#1

So basicly when the beam hits it does 50 damage on all parts but on head I want to take 100 damage the problem is it only takes 50 damage.

script:

local range = 400
local NormalDamage = 50
local HeadDamage = 100

[...]

local NewRay = RaycastParams.new()
local RayDirection = (TargetLocation - BulletLocation.Position) * range 
NewRay.FilterDescendantsInstances = {Player.Character}
local Result = game.Workspace:Raycast(BulletLocation.Position, RayDirection, NewRay)
	
if Result then
	if Result.Instance then
			
			if  Result.Instance.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
				Result.Instance.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= NormalDamage
			elseif Result.Instance.Parent:FindFirstChild("Head") then -- Trying to get the head
				Result.Instance.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= HeadDamage  -- does the 100 damage
			end
		end
	end
end)
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#2

This is the problem.

I assume every time the beam hits something, it will hit an instance where its parent has a humanoid has their child. Every time this if statements checks the condition, if it is true then the other elseif statements will be ignored, so you should do the if statement of checking if it has a head inside the scope of the first if statement.

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#3

Wait I changed something I tried to use by the name


	if Result then
		if Result.Instance then
			
			if  Result.Instance.Name == "Head" then
				humanoid.Health -= HeadDamage
			else
			    humanoid.Health -= NormalDamage
			end
		end
	end
end)

It works the problem is after that I get this error

ServerScriptService.Script:39: attempt to index nil with 'Health' - Server - Script:39
I think is only when I miss or something.

#4

Re-add your humanoid check before the head checking.

#5

Nvm I forget to add return sorry.