Is there such a thing as good square shaped hitbox detection for combat?

[Wyzloc]

I’ve used magnitude, tried touched, but i’m not getting what I want. Magnitude isn’t the right shape for combat from what I see. I want to know how I can use a square hitbox, but be able to rotate it depending on the face of the player.

[anon66957764]

For combat? I would highly recommend using something like this:

Raycast Hitbox 4.01: For all your melee needs!

Current Version: V.4.01 Stable (09/21/2021) Upgrading from 3.xx to 4.0 Please note that V4 is not backwards compatible with V3. There are a few API changes that were introduced in V4 to better suit modern code etiquette. Here are the changes you need to know if you want to make your code compliant with V4: Raycast Hitbox 4.01: For all your melee needs! - #597 by TeamSwordphin Notable Features Accurate, performant, and easy to use! Use attachments or vectors to make your hitboxes in secon…

instead of sticking to a block shape (XY problem anyone?).

However, if you legitimately need a square hitbox for whatever reason, try RotatedRegion3:

Rotated Region 3 Module

Update: This module has served its purpose, but with the release of the new spatial query API this post is obsolete. It will be left untouched for learning purposes, but it’s strongly recommended to check out the built-in api solution instead. Recently I took another crack at an old module I wrote some time back. The goal of this module is to provide users with a way to create Rotatable Region 3’s which is useful for too many reasons to list. Even though this module (older versions) has been …

It lets you specify a region using CFrame and size, and you can make sphere hitboxes, wedge hitboxes, cylinder hitboxes etc. Additionally, it allows you to get points of contact too.

[Wyzloc]

What if what i’m making is fist combat? I can’t just plop attachments called DmgPoint into that, because attachments effect character physics my player would be glitchy.

[anon66957764]

@Dracolyx

because attachments effect character physics

Attachments that don’t have anything connected shouldn’t do anything… If parenting an Attachment instance to a character limb changes the physics, would you mind filing a bug report on that?

[sz_s]

For area hit detection I’ve tried rotated Region3, but in my experience touched is more reliable (not sure about performance, however). Just spawn in an invisible, non cancollide part and use GetTouchingParts. You can do this without yielding:

[Obsolete] Simple trick to make GetTouchingParts work with non-CanCollide parts

NOTE: This is obsolete in favor of better bounding box checking API now: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-overlapparams-new-spatial-query-api/1435720 Suppose you have PartA and PartB in workspace that intersect, but both are non-CanCollide (or only one of them is non-CanCollide): [image] You might know that the following call will not yield any results in that case: local results = workspace.PartA:GetTouchingParts() print(#results) --> 0 However, if you attach an empty Touched ha…

For melee hit detection, I’ve seen the best results by far with raycasting.

[TeamSwordphin (Phin)]

Creator of that Raycast hitbox module here. What @anon66957764 said is correct, attachments by itself do not cause any physics interference. There have been a few developers that already uses it for fist combats.

If you still are not keen on using attachments, the module also offers a vector based alternative that doesn’t use attachments to spawn raycast points. It is not listed on the main post since it’s more for the advanced users. You will just need to look in the thread and its API documentation.

[Shurikanz]

I’m using the raycast hitbox module made by @TeamSwordphin and you can definitely use this module for fist combat with-and without the attachments. At first, I spawned in attachments named DmgPoints into both fists, but eventually decided to move over to the vector based alternative, which works a lot better for what I’m trying to achieve with my fist combat system. Here’s an example of what that looks like:

https://gyazo.com/4fb273a9623c428825a7f32563836b6c.gif

As you see in my example, you can use it for things like your feet and legs as well. This module is really versatile and you can use it in any kind of melee combat scenario