How to make an npc attack?

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#1

So, I’m making a bot defence game. I’ve scripted the npc able to follow players, but now I need to make it do damage. I do not know how to do this. Help needed.

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#2

There are a couple ways you could do this

  • Using a Touched Event from a weapon to detect if the Enemy hit a player

  • Using Magnitude/Region3 if the player is close to an enemy from an AOE standpoint

Depends on your scenario

#3

How can I go about with the Touched Event. I would like there to be a cooldown for each hit so it doesn’t just spam you to death. Would I put in a wait?

#4

Yeah you use a wait to delay the cooldown, I’ll show a brief code example:

local Tool = script.Parent
local Handle = Tool.Handle
local Cooldown = false

Handle.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
    if Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and Cooldown == false then
        Cooldown = true
        local Target = Hit.Parent
        Target.Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
        wait(5)
        Cooldown = false
    end
end)
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#5

Are you talking about hitboxes of the attacks, or the AI itself telling them when to attack?

#6

So, the ai runs into the player and deals damage.

#7

Im looking for when the AI tells itself when to attack