Boss Fight Spikes/Pillar Attack

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#1

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I’m scripting a boss fight at the moment and I’m trying to create an attack where the boss rises maybe 10 - 20 spikes/pillars up from the ground in random positions preferably around the Boss’s humanoidrootpart. Hopefully, this image helps:
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  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    I’m unsure of where to start and am just looking for guidance.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I’ve tried looking on the dev forum, going through template models, etc. Still haven’t seemed to gain an idea of what I should be doing.

I am not looking to be spoonfed code or anything like that, I’m sorry if this is maybe a dumb question to ask. All I’m looking for is guidance on how I should start this process and what I should be using to do so. Thanks.

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#2

You could get the boss’s HumanoidRootPart, then use a for loop such as

for i = 1, PILLAR_AMOUNT do

Once doing this in the for loop you could create new part instances and for the CFrame get the Boss’s HumanoidRootPart CFrame and multiply, you can look at the developer reference manual on things for the math like math.rad, CFrame.Angles, etc. Completely customizable by you. I would look at these

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/CFrame

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#4

Oh okay! I’ve had some experience with this, but it still needs some basic knowledge of CFraming.

Before you read I would like to mention 2 things. First, if anyone knows a better way, please respond to this post, because this might not be the best way. Secondly, some of the code here might not be accurate. I can’t check on Roblox studio at this time, so just let me know if something isn’t working
In order to do this, I would recommend you do something like this

First, you’d need to get the CFrame Positions in where you wanted spikes to come out from.

This can be done in two different ways:

#1: if the boss stays in a fixed place (doesn’t move and stays in a box for example,) the best way would be setting up your own battlefield where spikes can spawn


StartXpos1 =  ——-start x pos 

StartXpos2  =  ——-start x pos 2

-—— and so on with z (and y if needed)


—-— then, to get the CFrame that you want the spike to be in do something like this

Local RandomXPos = math.random(Positon.StartXPos1,Position.StartXPos2)

——- do it with y and z

—-— then finally

Spike.CFrame = CFrame.new(RandomXPos,RandomYPos,RandomZPos)

Now, the other way to do it is if the boss has different places it needs to move and be in, etc. if you need this, you would basically only change how the variables are set up. Instead of a pre set variable, you will need to get the position of the humanoidRootPart and then change those values slightly to match with how far you want the spikes to be

To do this, it would be something like


StartXpos1  = Boss.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.X --- Change the value of the CFrame accordingly

That’s basically how you would position the spikes, but you would need a loop to see how many spikes you would make, and etc. doing this would be like

Local dead = false
local amountOfSpikes = 15


while not dead do — the boss should have a while true loop just to make everything repeat until the boss is dead. This is useful for multiple attacks, etc
Task.wait(3)


for i = 1,amountOfSpikes do

-—clone spike here

——- do the CFrame stuff mentioned above
      end
end

If something doesn’t work, feel free to respond to this!

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#5

Thanks, I got it working! It was actually a lot simpler than I thought it’d be.

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#6

Yeah no problem! Good luck with your boss!

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