I’m making a dbd inspired game sort of like Forsaken and TR:UD, based around 2009 - 2013 roblox, and i’m trying to find how to make the cool dragging hitboxes you see in games.
What i mean by this is, have you ever been in a game with show hitboxes on, and the attack has multiple hitboxes that drags along with you? If not, join Item Asylum or Forsaken, turning show hitboxes on and look at an attack.
I’m not the best at explaining, though I hope you can SOMEWHAT understand what i’m talking about. I’ve looked online to try and find a tutorial on how to get this type of hitbox, but I can’t find any.
If anybody on the forums know how to make the multi-hitbox thingy, PLEASE tell me how, bc i dont want those bad, janky 1 hitbox attack systems
Im guessing you can make a point on your weapon and weld it to your handle/blade so when the animation plays the part goes with it, that’s going to the the centre/origin of all the parts, then through out the duration of the animation, make these boxes and check if something got hit with workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox() or with workspace:GetPartsInPart(), though I would go with the first option, then combine every hit from those boxes into one mega table. Then remove duplicate hits, check if a humanoid was hit, if hit then deal damage.
Depends on how detailed you want to do it. A good place to start is distance check each enemy to create a table of potential hits.
Afterwards you would want to perform raycast/overlap queries and maybe angle checks.
Based on your video, it looks like he’s doing box checks in front of the character for X amount of seconds every frame. That’s really not that complicated.
I’ll give you an example of how to do that.
local RS = game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local function Hitbox(HRP : BasePart, Duration : number, Size : Vector3, Offset : CFrame, OnHit)
local OParams = OverlapParams.new()
OParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Include
OParams.MaxParts = 100
OParams.CollisionGroup = "Default"
OParams.RespectCanCollide = false
local minRadius = Offset.Position.X+Offset.Position.Y+Offset.Position.Z
+ (Size.X+Size.Y+Size.Z)/2 + 2.5 -- 2.5 for character radius
local already_hit = {[HRP.Parent]=true} -- that way self is already excluded
local Connection = RS.PostSimulation:Connect(function(dt)
local instances = {}
for _,plr in Players:GetPlayers() do
if plr.Character and not already_hit[plr.Character] then
local xHRP = plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart
if (xHRP.Position-HRP.Position).Magnitude <= minRadius then
table.insert(instances, plr.Character)
end
end
end
OParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = instances
local partHits = workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox(HRP.CFrame * Offset, Size, OParams)
for _,part in partHits do
local xChar = part.Parent -- the char of the part should be the direct parent
if not already_hit[xChar] then
already_hit[xChar] = true
task.defer(OnHit, xChar)
end
end
end)
task.delay(Duration, Connection.Disconnect, Connection)
return Connection
end
Hey, I was working on doing what you said (really good btw), and I ran into a small issue that probably has a really easy quick fix but I’m having trouble finding it.
when I activate the attack i get the error message “invalid argument #2 to ‘remove’ (number expected, got Instance)”
if part:GetAttribute(“Hitbox”) then table.remove(touchedParts, part) end – removes hitboxes
I know that the issue is me using an object in table.remove, but how do i find the index of the object in the table so I can use the index of the object instead?
Thanks to everyone for your help! Due to the support, I was able to make and debug the hitbox system, and it’s now fully functional
If anyone in like 10 years wants to know how to make drag hitboxes, heres the code I used:
-- needs a part called "playerHitbox" inside of the character to detect a hit
local function createHitbox(damage, size, offset, hrp, hitboxes, touchedTable)
local hitbox = Instance.new("Part")
hitbox.CanCollide = false
hitbox.Transparency = 0.75
hitbox.Size = size
hitbox.Parent = workspace
hitbox.CFrame = hrp.CFrame * CFrame.new(offset)
hitbox.Anchored = true
table.insert(hitboxes, hitbox)
local touchedParts = workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox(hitbox.CFrame, hitbox.Size)
for i, part in touchedParts do
table.insert(touchedTable, part)
end
end
m1Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, damage, size, offset, startup, Time, increment)
task.wait(startup) -- startup time
local hitboxes = {}
local touchedParts = {}
local damagedPlayers = {}
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local breakLoop = false
for i = 1, math.floor(Time / increment), 1 do
createHitbox(damage, size, offset, hrp, hitboxes, touchedParts)
for i, part in touchedParts do
if table.find(hitboxes, hitboxes[part]) or table.find(damagedPlayers, damagedPlayers[part.Parent.Name]) or not part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
table.remove(touchedParts, touchedParts[part]) -- removes hitboxes, non-charcater objects, and anything already damaged
else
if part.Name == "playerHitbox" and part.Parent.Name ~= character.Name then
table.insert(damagedPlayers, part.Parent.Name)
part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"):TakeDamage(damage)
breakLoop = true -- once hit it will stop casting the hitboxes
end
end
end
table.clear(touchedParts)
task.wait(increment)
if breakLoop then break end
end
for i, hitbox in hitboxes do
hitbox:Destroy()
end
end)
