Different Tower Attacks | Tower Defense |

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#1

How can I make a more dynamic attack animation system for different towers. For example, some towers will shoot fireballs while some will dash towards the enemies or jump towards the enemyy? Similar to the way the towers attack in let’s say, Anime vanguards or anime adventuress…

Another thing is, I want the tower’s damage to have an area of effect of AOE

Here is the main Attack function inside the module that currently, every unit follows.

function UnitSpawnModule.Attack(newUnit, player)
	local Config = newUnit:WaitForChild("Config")
	local target = UnitSpawnModule.FindTarget(newUnit, Config.Range.Value, Config.TargetMode.Value)
	
	
	if target and  target:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and target.Humanoid.Health > 0 then
		
		local targetcframe = CFrame.lookAt(newUnit.HumanoidRootPart.Position, target.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
		newUnit.HumanoidRootPart.BodyGyro.CFrame = targetcframe
		
		
		
	
		AnimateUnitEvent:FireAllClients(newUnit, "Attack1", target)
		
		target.Humanoid:TakeDamage(Config.Damage.Value)
		
		
		
		if target.Humanoid.Health <= 0 then
			player.Money.Value += target.Money.Value
		end
		task.wait(Config.Cooldown.Value)
		

	end
	task.wait(.1)
	if newUnit and newUnit.Parent then
		UnitSpawnModule.Attack(newUnit, player)
	end
	
end

Here is the local script that plays the animation:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local Storage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")

local events = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Events")

local AnimateUnitEvent = events:WaitForChild("AnimateUnit")




local function SetAnimation(Object, animName)
	local humanoid = Object:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local animationsFolder = Object:WaitForChild("Animations")
	
	if humanoid and animationsFolder then
		local animationObject = animationsFolder:WaitForChild(animName)
		
		if animationObject then
			local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator")
			
			local playingTracks = animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()
			for i, track in pairs(playingTracks) do
				if track.Name == animName then
					return track
				end
			end
			
			
			local animationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(animationObject)
			return animationTrack
		end
		
		
	end

	
end 

local function playAnimation(Object, animName)
	local animationTrack = SetAnimation(Object, animName)
	
	if animationTrack then
		
		animationTrack:Play()
	else
		warn("ANIMATION DOES NOT EXIST")
		return
	end
end


AnimateUnitEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(unit, animName)
	
	playAnimation(unit, animName)
end)
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#2

Different units have differents config which the module uses for different attacks. For AOE I recommmend make a hit box from where the attack hits, and any enemy that touchs it takes damage, and add VFX and effects

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#3

Ohhh I see!! alright mann I’ll try thatt