Help me make a poision part by giving suggestions on what to use

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#1

i need suggestions on what to use
the player take for example 10 damage every 5 seconds and it stops after 10 seconds
what functions or events do i use so i could make a part like this?

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#2

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#3

This is very vague, so I will give you something very vague. Make the character take damage :slight_smile:

#4

No like so it takes damage by time.
like when the player touched the part he gets damaged every 5 seconds

#5

im just asking on what to use.

#6

Could you please update your post because no one can make out what you are trying to ask.

#8

i need suggestions on what to use for the part’s script

#9

Dude, like come on. Listen to what they are saying. No one knows what you want them to help you with, please fix your post to make it more understandable.

#10

Script inside character
What you could do is use a while loop

Instead of having it say something like “while true do”, you could have a variable that changes to false when you finish dealing damage to the player.

You could also have variables that change depending on the poison you’re using.

something like

local character = script.Parent -- this is assuming the script is inside the character (a server script)
local damage = 10 -- how much damage to deal
local secondsBetweenDamage = 5 -- the seconds between each damage tick
local totalDamageTime = 10 -- the total amount of time that will pass
local finishedDeal = false -- a variable used to check if the poison finished 
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") --find humanoid in the character
local timePassed = 0 -- how much time has passed

while finishedDeal == false do -- only deal damage if it hasn't finished
    wait(secondsBetweenDamage) --wait for time between damage
    timePassed = timePassed + secondsBetweenDamage -- add to timePassed
    humanoid:TakeDamage(damage) -- damage the humanoid
    if timePassed >= totalDamageTime then -- check if timepassed is equal to or greater than the total time to deal damage
        finishedDeal = true -- end the loop of dealing damage by setting this to true
    end
end

Script inside a part
If you wanted to do it after a player touches a part, you would have a script check when that part was touched with a .Touched event

This checks if another part touches it, which could be a part of a player’s character.

You could also have a function that deals damage to the player if the player isn’t already being dealt damage. You can go about this with another variable that’s a table of players that are already being deal damage

This uses game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter()
It also used for i,v in pairs loops

local part = script.Parent -- assuming this script is inside the part
local playersBeingDamaged = {} -- a table that will store who is already being dealt damage
local damage = 10 -- how much damage to deal
local secondsBetweenDamage = 5 -- the seconds between each damage tick
local totalDamageTime = 10 -- the total amount of time that will pass

function dealDamage(player)
    table.insert(playersBeingDamaged,player) --insert the player into the table
    local finishedDeal = false -- a variable used to check if the poison finished 
    local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") --find humanoid in the character
    local timePassed = 0 -- how much time has passed
    local character = player.Character
    local humanoid = character.Humanoid
    while finishedDeal == false do -- only deal damage if it hasn't finished
        wait(secondsBetweenDamage) --wait for time between damage
        timePassed = timePassed + secondsBetweenDamage -- add to timePassed
        humanoid:TakeDamage(damage) -- damage the humanoid
        if timePassed >= totalDamageTime then -- check if timepassed is equal to or greater than the total     time to deal damage
            finishedDeal = true -- end the loop of dealing damage by setting this to true
        end
    end
    for i,plr in pairs (playersBeingDamaged) do --find the player in the table and remove them from it
        if plr == player then
            table.remove(playersBeingDamaged,i) -- remove the index of the player
        end
    end
end


part.Touched:connect(function(hit)
    if hit.Parent and game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then --check if the hit part belongs to a player's character
        local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) 
        local doDamage = true
        for i,v in pairs (playersBeingDamaged) do
            if v == player then
                doDamage = false
                break
            end
        end
        if doDamage == true then
            dealDamage(player)
        end
    end
 end)
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#11

Easiest way to crunch that work down is to determine how many seconds damage will last for and how much damage should be dealt to the player, then divide so you can get the DPS lasting over the time period and accordingly deal damage.

local damage = 50
local timePeriod = 15
local damagePerSecond = timePeriod/damage
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#12

Indeed you can do that. I’m trying to simplify the process as much as possible for him, though.

#13

i literally edited it and i think its understandable,
a poison part that poisons players for a duration of time then stops (damages the player for a duration of time).

#14

I will try that.

(Btw at the first script why not use FindFirstChild)

#15

That works but it errored,
The

local character = player.Character

shouldve been above the

local humanoid = character:WaitForChild(“Humanoid”)

so i edited it a little and it worked, Anyways thank you for your help!

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#16

Woops! I wrote both scripts in the devforums itself.

I’m glad it works! Good luck with everything.