What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want to make a juggling mechanic, that will spawn a ball and start an animation every time the player clicks.
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
The issue is that every time I begin to move my character, it will sometimes depend on the balls. It mostly starts to fling when there are many balls at once.
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I have tried using Motor6D and Welds. I also tried making a script that would refresh the position of the balls, so they depend on the character, but that seemed too laggy and inconsistent for players with worse connection.
Furthermore, I tried looking for solutions on here, but I couldn’t find anything that seemed to be an answer to this situation
My code:
-- Script Remotes
function Juggle(plr)
if not JDebounce then
JDebounce = true
local char = plr.Character
local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local animationTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(Throw1Animation) -- Start throw animation
animationTrack:Play()
local Ball = CreateBall(char)
local ballHum = Ball.Humanoid
local animationTrack = ballHum:LoadAnimation(BallMoveAnimation) -- Start ball animation
animationTrack:Play()
spawn(function() -- Throw back animation
wait(.5)
local animationTrack = hum:LoadAnimation(Throw2Animation)
animationTrack:Play()
end)
spawn(function() -- Destroy ball when finshed
wait(1)
Ball:Destroy()
end)
wait(JTime) -- wait for debounce time
JDebounce = false
end
end
-- CreateBall Function
return function(char)
local Ball = game:GetService("ServerStorage").GreenBall:Clone()
Ball.Parent = char
Ball.HumanoidRootPart.WeldToRoot.Part0 = char.HumanoidRootPart
return Ball
end
I hope this is enough information.
Also, this is my first post on here, so feel free to correct me!
You seem to be welding the ball to the HumanoidRootPart (hrp) which I speculate drags the character with it as it goes up, you can try anchoring the hrp and if the character doesn’t fling then your problem are those welds.
Also, couple of things about your script, avoid using spawn() as it starts a new thread when ran and has “a built in wait()” which basically yields your script for the period of a wait() when exiting the spawn(). Another note is to not use Humanoid:LoadAnimation() but instead use Animator:LoadAnimation() because the latter is more recommended than the former, and you also don’t want to load the animation each time you want to play it, just have the variable that holds that AnimationTrack at the beginning and each time you need to play the animation just take that variable and slap a :Play() next to it. Because you can only load 256 animations per Animator.
I can’t use Roblox Studio right now but ill definitely test those out later, and thanks for the tips. I will definitely change the animation code.
Also whats an alternative to using spawn()?
For example sometimes i would want to wait before doing something meanwhile not delaying the rest of the code.
I would normally try and find ways around it first, test all my possibilities and if I have to run in parallel then I’ll use coroutines, they are slightly trickier to set-up but are much better and smoother. But I recommend finding other ways before using coroutine just because you will rarely need to run code in parallel in the same script. Nothing’s bad with coroutines tho, feel free to use them however you like.
local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local BallTemplate = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Ball")
script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
-- Get Character
local character = script.Parent:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model")
if not character then return end
local root = character.PrimaryPart
if not root then return end
local hum = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if not hum or hum.Health <= 0 then return end
-- Create ball
local ball = BallTemplate:Clone()
-- Weld Ball
local weld = Instance.new("Weld")
weld.Part0 = ball
weld.Part1 = root
weld.C0 = CFrame.new()
weld.Parent = ball
-- Parent Ball
ball.Parent = workspace
-- Animate Ball
table.insert(balls, {
_object = ball,
_weld = weld,
_spawnedAt = time(),
_speed = 1,
})
end)
local yStrength = 2
local xStrength = 1
game["Run Service"].Heartbeat:Connect(function()
for index, ball in pairs(balls) do
-- Check Ball
if (not ball._object or not ball._object:IsDescendantOf(workspace) or not ball._weld) then
if ball._object then
ball._object:Destroy()
end
balls[index] = nil
continue
end
-- Get Numbers
local t = math.min((time() - ball._spawnedAt) / ball._speed, 1)
local rot = math.pi * 2 * t
-- Animate
local y = -math.abs( math.sin(rot) * yStrength )
local x = -math.cos(rot) * xStrength
ball._weld.C0 = CFrame.new(x, y, 2)
-- Check Time
if t == 1 then
if ball._object then
ball._object:Destroy()
end
balls[index] = nil
end
end
end)
Yeah, I have done some testing now. When the character is anchored, nothing happens, and the character will only start flinging when there are multiple balls welded to the character.
