Fireball doesn't work

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#1

Basically, I have a fireball where when you shoot it, a remote event fires and spawns a fireball a few studs away from the player and shoots it in the direction of the player. However, if the player moves forward and shoots a fireball, then the fireball will detect it as an other player and attack the player who was shooting the fireball. How can I add a statement where if it’s the player, then it won’t detect it as an enemy?

script that happens when remote event is fired:

	local clonedFireball = game.ReplicatedStorage["ball of fireball"]:Clone()
	local CF = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -4)
	
	clonedFireball.Parent = workspace
	clonedFireball.CFrame = CF
	
	local BodyVelocity = Instance.new("BodyVelocity")
	
	BodyVelocity.Parent = clonedFireball
	BodyVelocity.Velocity = player.character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.lookVector * 75
	
	clonedFireball.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			if not player then
			hit.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
		    clonedFireball:Destroy()
		end
		elseif not hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			local Explosion = Instance.new("Explosion")
			Explosion.Parent = workspace
			Explosion.ExplosionType = Enum.ExplosionType.NoCraters
			Explosion.BlastRadius = 3
			Explosion.DestroyJointRadiusPercent = 0
			Explosion.Position = clonedFireball.Position
			clonedFireball:Destroy()
		end
	end)
end)
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#2

All you do is add an if statement, and check if the touched part isn’t the player firing it
For example, if hit.Parent ~= playerwhofired

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#5

How do I get the player who fired? Is it player the argument from the RemoteEvent?

#6

Player is the first parameter when receiving a remote event. To get the character of the player, do player.Character

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