Continuous issue of humanoids taking damage repeatedly by region3

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#1

Hey, I have been playing around, and I want to transform the multiple-target sword to a 3D region, now it is quite buggy.

This is my old post of someone helping me making a sword attacking multiple targets: Attacking multiple targets at once?

		local min = blade.Position - (0.5 * blade.Size)
		local max = blade.Position + (0.5 * blade.Size)
		local region = Region3.new(min,max)

		for _,hit in pairs(game.Workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(region,blade)) do

			if script.Active.Value == true then
				local plr = plrS:FindFirstChild(tool.Parent.Name)
				if hit.Parent:IsA("Model") and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Enemy") then
					if hit.Name ~= "Blade" then
						if hit.Parent.Enemy.Value == true then
							local eneH = hit.Parent.Humanoid
									
							local found
							for _, character in next, hitE do
								if character == eneH then
									found = true
								end
							end
							
							if not found then
								print(eneH.Name)
								table.insert(hitE, eneH) 
								if eneH:FindFirstChild("creator") then
									if eneH.creator.Value ~= plr then
										local creator_tag = Instance.new("ObjectValue")
										creator_tag.Value = plr
										creator_tag.Name = "creator"
										creator_tag.Parent = eneH
									end
								else
									local creator_tag = Instance.new("ObjectValue")
									creator_tag.Value = plr
									creator_tag.Name = "creator"
									creator_tag.Parent = eneH
								end

									local dmg = rand:NextNumber(setting.Minimum_Damage,setting.Maximum_Damage)
									local absolutedmg = dmg
									 + math.abs(reps.Players[plr.Name].skills.strength.Value)*1.66
									module.DamageIndicator(absolutedmg,hit.Parent.Head.CFrame * CFrame.new(rand:NextNumber(-.1,.1),2,rand:NextNumber(-.1,.1)))
									eneH:TakeDamage(absolutedmg)

								end
				
								wait(.3)
								for i, character in next, hitE do
									if character == eneH then
										--script.Active.Value = false
										tool.ServerBlade.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
										table.remove(hitE, i)
									end
								end
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end

I removed a lot of unnecessary code, to try and make it cleaner, now the result is that it deals damage over, and over again. But I know the reason is because of the for loop of the region.
I don’t know how to solve this issue.

That is the problem (yellow numbers are the damage I deal, it deals damage over-time…)

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#2

You need to filter out the humanoids that already took damage. It keeps iterating over multiple parts of the same character.

#3

Pretty sure this part should be doing it, or am I doing it wrong?

							for i, character in next, hitE do
								if character == eneH then
									--script.Active.Value = false
									tool.ServerBlade.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
									table.remove(hitE, i)
								end
							end
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#4

But the in pairs goes over all parts from beginning. The humanoid table should be out of the loop.

#5

That was what I was beginning to do, so I loop the region3 parts inside the for loop, add humanoids into a table, and then deal damage outside the for loop and remove the humanoids from the table that they were added to?

#6

Perhaps limiting the damage by checking if the player is swinging the sword. If they aren’t, don’t deal any damage.

#7

using a debounce here should help. as @Operatik said. limiting the damage if the player isn’t swinging. this can be done by using a simple debounce