Hitbox.Touched only works when its massless

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1

Im trying to make a part spawn in multiple times in order to make a barrage move, i made it so it spawns in the player and reaches forward, but when trying to make it deal damage, the touch doesnt register.
I tried multiple things, made sure cantouch is true, but it only detected the touch when i disabled massless and moved around sporadically near a dummy, and only sometimes.
How can i make the part register a humanoid has touched it?

                                while attack do
				character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 3
				local newhitbox = Instance.new("Part")
				newhitbox.Name = "hitbox"
				newhitbox.CFrame = character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
				newhitbox.Anchored = false
				newhitbox.CanTouch = true
				newhitbox.CanCollide = false
				newhitbox.CanQuery = true
				newhitbox.Transparency = 0.55
				newhitbox.Color = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
				newhitbox.Parent = character
				newhitbox.Size = Vector3.new(4.2,5,6.69)
				local w = Instance.new("Weld",newhitbox)
				w.Part0 = newhitbox
				w.Part1 = character.HumanoidRootPart
				w.C1 = CFrame.new(0,0,-2.89)
				game.Debris:AddItem(newhitbox,2)
				wait(2)

			newhitbox.Touched:Connect(function()
                        print("touched")
end)
			end

this is my first post, so i hope the formatting works.

2

Try this:

while attack do
	character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 3
	
	local newhitbox = Instance.new("Part")
	newhitbox.Name = "hitbox"
	newhitbox.CFrame = character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
	newhitbox.Anchored = false
	newhitbox.CanTouch = true
	newhitbox.CanCollide = false
	newhitbox.CanQuery = true
	newhitbox.Transparency = 0.55
	newhitbox.Color = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
	newhitbox.Size = Vector3.new(4.2, 5, 6.69)
	newhitbox.Parent = character

	local weldConstraint = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
	weldConstraint.Part0 = newhitbox
	weldConstraint.Part1 = character.HumanoidRootPart
	weldConstraint.Parent = newhitbox
	
	task.delay(2, function()
		newhitbox:Destroy()
	end)
	
	newhitbox.Touched:Connect(function()
		print("touched")
	end)
end
3

That didn’t really solve my problem, as it doesn’t fix the fact that the box that should detect any touching humanoid doesnt do that unless it has mass, which is a problem as the player twitches everytime and freezes whenever it is called. The part itself is staying on the proper place.

4

Better to just use Debris, as far as I’m concerned.

5

I thought it would, because in the original one, you connect the .Touched function after you destroyed the part, which wouldn’t work.

6

I’m using task.delay because afaik Debris still uses the default wait(n) instead of task.wait(n).

7

After reading that i tried making the touched function a regular function and call it whenever the hitbox is touched, while the box duration and spawn time is different (lasts 1 second, spawns every 0.5 second) its registering the touch, but with the spawn rate like that, its registering way too often and results in massive damage. How can i maybe add a delay to the hitbox?

while attack do
	function hitbarrage(hit)
	print(hit.Name.."touched")
		if hit and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			hit.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(1)
		end
	end

		character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 3
		wait()

local newhitbox = Instance.new("Part")
newhitbox.Name = "hitbox"
newhitbox.CFrame = character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
newhitbox.Anchored = false
newhitbox.CanTouch = true
newhitbox.CanCollide = false
newhitbox.Transparency = 0.55
newhitbox.Massless = true
newhitbox.Color = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
newhitbox.Size = Vector3.new(4.2, 5, 6.69)
newhitbox.Parent = character

local w = Instance.new("Weld",newhitbox)
w.Part0 = newhitbox
w.Part1 = character.HumanoidRootPart
w.C1 = CFrame.new(0,0,-2.89)

game.Debris:AddItem(newhitbox,1)
wait(0.5)
newhitbox.Touched:Connect(hitbarrage)
									
end
8

You can try to add a debounce.

Try this:

local damageCooldown = 0.5

while attack do
	character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 3
	task.wait()

	local newhitbox = Instance.new("Part")
	newhitbox.Name = "hitbox"
	newhitbox.CFrame = character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
	newhitbox.Anchored = false
	newhitbox.CanTouch = true
	newhitbox.CanCollide = false
	newhitbox.Transparency = 0.55
	newhitbox.Massless = true
	newhitbox.Color = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
	newhitbox.Size = Vector3.new(4.2, 5, 6.69)
	newhitbox.Parent = character

	local w = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
	w.Part0 = newhitbox
	w.Part1 = character.HumanoidRootPart
	w.C1 = CFrame.new(0,0,-2.89)
	w.Parent = newhitbox
	
	task.delay(1, function()
		if newhitbox:IsDescendantOf(workspace) then
			newhitbox:Destroy()
		end
	end)
	
	task.wait(0.5)
	
	local humanoidDebounce = {}
	
	newhitbox.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local Humanoid = hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
		
		if Humanoid and not humanoidDebounce[Humanoid] then
			humanoidDebounce[Humanoid] = true
				
			Humanoid:TakeDamage(1)
			
			task.wait(damageCooldown)
			humanoidDebounce[Humanoid] = nil
		end
	end)
end

Change the cooldown time to your liking.

9

Seems to be working as intended with this, thanks for the help.