How do I prevent self damage?

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#1

Yes I did search this up already, but found no results. I’m trying to make a projectile. But, it damages yourself if you touch it. I know I can add a bool value with the player’s username, but I don’t want it to just destroy the projectile if it hits me.

Please help, and have a great day.

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#2

just add a line like

if not plr then
---whatever the rest of the script was
end

as a check before damaging or destroying the projectile.

#3

How would that stop it from damaging myself or the sender?

#4

How is your code structured right now? Are you using the .Touched event? I’d like more details if possible. And you can easily add a bool at the begin to check if the hit model is your character, if it return false then just keep going what the projectile is supposed to do.

#5

I’m using a .Touched event. Also I’d like to see more about the hit model is your character.
(I might not respond as much since I’ll be afk).

#6 
local Character = Player.Character;
Bullet.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
   if Hit.Parent ~= Character then
      -- hit isn't character, keep going
   end;
end);

I don’t know how your code is structured right now, but you should be able of “translating” my version into yours.

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#7 
local Bullet = script.Parent
local Damage = 15

local function TagHumanoid(Humanoid)
	local CreatorTag = Bullet:FindFirstChild("creator")
	if CreatorTag ~= nil then
		local NewCreatorTag = CreatorTag:Clone()
		NewCreatorTag.Parent = Humanoid
	end
end

function UntagHumanoid(Humanoid)
	if Humanoid ~= nil then
		local CreatorTag = Humanoid:FindFirstChild("creator")
		if CreatorTag ~= nil then
			CreatorTag:Destroy()
		end
	end
end

local function OnTouched(Hit)
	if Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Bullet") then return end
	local Player = Bullet.creator.Value
	local Humanoid = Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if Humanoid and not Humanoid:IsDescendantOf(Player.Character) then
		Humanoid:TakeDamage(Damage)
		TagHumanoid(Humanoid)
		wait(0.25)
		UntagHumanoid(Humanoid)
	end
	Connection:Disconnect()
	Bullet:Destroy()
end

Connection = Bullet.Touched:Connect(OnTouched)
wait(3)
Bullet:Destroy()

Somehting I made this for 2 hours trying to figured out

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