I am making a boss fight attack with a giant squid that shoots a ink ball onto the island that you are on. How would I make a projectile that shoots smoothly onto the island from where the boss is, he is right next to the island. Then it will leave a ink splatter.
I mainly want to know how to do the first part, I probably will be able to make the ink pool.
if the boss is stationary then you can just tween the âink ballâ and then add a separate block of code that waits for it to land and then run all your fx & damage stuff
It moves around the island, but how would I use tween service to make it look like its falling without getting something awkward?
if you want to make it visually pleasing youâll probably need to use Bezier curves which I have no experience in. But, you can get the position of the giant squid and then the position of the destination and then tween a ball between that (this would give you a linear animation). Youâd need to do the hitbox, damage service, and effects separately, though.
local run = game:GetService("RunService")
local function MoveBall(part, from, to)
local mid = Vector3.new(to.X,from.Y,to.Z)
local l0, l1 = nil, nil
local t = 0
repeat t += run.Heartbeat:Wait()
l0 = from:Lerp(mid,t)
l1 = mid:Lerp(to,t)
part.Position = l0:Lerp(l1,t)
until t > 1
-- The part hit the target
end
Pass the part to move, the starting position (from) and the target (to). Both from and to should be a Vector3, the part should be the part.
@chunchbunch bezier curves are simple but very useful when making curves. All you have to do is Lerp all points to the next point, Then lerp those values.
P0 lerp P1 = L0
P1 lerp P2 = L1
L0 lerp L1 = Final position
P0 and P2 is the start and end points, while P1 is the midpoint which is quite hard to find. L0 and L1 is the result of the lerps, and Final position is the result of L0 and L1 lerp.
You will put this in a loop that increases time and ranges from 0 - 1. You will use this âtimeâ for the lerp alpha.
Sorry, Iâm not very advanced in scripting. How would I pass from and to as a vector3? Also where would I put that other script taht involves the lerps, it seems like the first script would do it and where would I put it? I just donât know what to do.
I answered someoneâs question. It was not about you or the script.
At the top of the script.
For passing the to, you can pass the Characterâs HumanoidRootPart Position. The from depends on where the ball is being shot at. You will use .Position to get the partâs position.
How would I find a random players humanoidrootpart position? Would I use a for loop to loop through the characters and select a random one?
When finding a random target, you will take all players.
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
Then pick a random player
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local target = players[math.random(1,#players)]
Then get their character, and their HumanoidRootPart
local char = target.Character
local hrp = char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
But since the character or hrp (HumanoidRootPart) can sometimes be nil, we have to check first before using it
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local target = players[math.random(1,#players)]
local char = target.Character
local hrp = nil
if char then
hrp = char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
end
Now, we can use that for the MoveBall.
We will use .Position to get the position of a part
local to = hrp.Position
Tell me if you dont know how to get from.
For from, I just did part.Position. When I use that, for some reason it says that the interval for math.random is empty. I did exactly what you said.
This is what my script looks like now:
local run = game:GetService("RunService")
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local function MoveBall(part, from, to)
local target = players[math.random(1,#players)]
part = script.Parent
from = script.Parent.Position
local char = target.Character
local hrp = nil
if char then
hrp = char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
end
to = hrp.Position
local mid = Vector3.new(to.X,from.Y,to.Z)
local l0, l1 = nil, nil
local t = 0
repeat t += run.Heartbeat:Wait()
print("Ran")
l0 = from:Lerp(mid,t)
l1 = mid:Lerp(to,t)
part.Position = l0:Lerp(l1,t)
until t > 1
end
MoveBall()
You will put this
inside the MoveBall function not outside.
local function MoveBall(part, from, to)
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local target = players[math.random(1,#players)]
I did what you said, but it still said this, Workspace.Part.Script:4: invalid argument #2 to ârandomâ (interval is empty)
Can you print players and tell me what appears in the output
local function MoveBall(part, from, to)
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
print(players)
local target = players[math.random(1,#players)]
It prints this: table: 0x44bfeade085951c5 its just printing the table of players.
Oh, in the output, there is an option there. Click it and turn on Log mode
Why would that change what it says? It didnât change it. Still prints table: 0x44bfeade085951c5.
I meant turn off. Look at this
With log mode:
Without log mode:
Actually you know what, just print the number of players
print(#players)
Oh sorry, it just wasnât loading the players, I just needed to add a wait function. Now it doesnt know what the postion of the hrp is. It is saying index nill with position. I printed it, and the hrp is nill.
Can you replcae this
with this
local char = target.Character or target.CharacterAdded:Wait()
and this
with this
hrp = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
Never mind, everything is good. Just one thing, how would I make the splatter be on the ground? Would I change the position of it under the untill statement?