so one loop (line 11) makes the part go to the player’s pos. Then the other loop works on decreasing the player’s health when they are touching the beam
nope. I get this
Decreased (x2332)And does it only deal damage to that player that the beam is following?
Nevermind, I just noticed you are using 2 Touched events on your script. For that you would have to add another debounce on the LB.Touched function.
well when the player is touching the beam but yes
Okay, I don’t really know what’s the problem here, but try this maybe?
if lhit.Parent.Humanoid == nil then
return
else
for decrease = 1,5,1 do
debounce = true
print("Decreased")
lhit.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= 10
wait(1)
debounce = false
end
end
nope, that doesn’t work. (30char)
Hmmm, put the debounce outside the for loop? (My small brain idea)
Here is a cleaner script:
local DB1 = false
local DB2 = false
script.Parent.Parent.TouchPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if DB1 == false and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and not hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Wall") then
DB1 = true
local HitAnim = script:FindFirstChild("Animation")
local distance = 30
local LightB = game.ReplicatedStorage.LightBeam
local LB = LightB:Clone()
LB.Parent = script.Parent
LB.Transparency = 0
for count = 1,50,1 do
wait(0.05)
LB.Position = hit.Parent.Torso.Position
LB.Touched:Connect(function(lhit)
if lhit.Parent.Humanoid == nil then
return
else
if DB2 == false then
DB2 = true
for decrease = 1,5,1 do
print("Decreased")
wait(1)
lhit.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= 10
end
end
end
end)
LB.Transparency = 0
wait(0.05)
DB1 = false
DB2 = false
end
end
end)
Sorry I forgot to include something, I just edited the post.
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local LightB = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LightBeam")
local HitAnim = script:FindFirstChild("Animation")
local TouchPart = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("TouchPart")
local distance = 30
local debounce = false
local function Touched(LB,Humanoid)
local debounce1 = false
return LB.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if Humanoid.Parent == hit.Parent and not debounce1 then
debounce1 = true
for decrease = 1,5,1 do
print("Decreased")
Humanoid.Health -= 10
wait(1)
end
debounce1 = false
end
end)
end
TouchPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local Character = hit.Parent
local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if Humanoid and not Character:FindFirstChild("Wall") and not debounce then
debounce = true
coroutine.wrap(function()
local LB = LightB:Clone()
LB.Parent = script.Parent --Should this not be workspace?
Touched(LB,Humanoid)
LB.Transparency = 0
for count = 1,50,1 do
task.wait(0.05)
LB.Position = hit.Parent.Torso.Position
end
LB.Transparency = 0 --Do we not destroy LB?
end)()
task.wait(0.5)
debounce = false
end
end)
With the information you gave me, I came up with this really quickly. Test it out and let me know what happens since I couldn’t really test it.
Edit: Fixed something.
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when i started touching it it lagged a whole ton
So I tried it out. and it works! Thank you lots!
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Hmm, how many “Decreased” did it print out? Nevermind OP is probably solved
around 140 (30char30char30char)
No worries. My code’s slightly messy but feel free to message me here if you’d like to know more about what was wrong with your code and how it could be prevented in the future. Don’t forget to mark it as the solution. 
Also thanks everyone for all the support who posted on this topic!
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No problem! Don’t forget to make a post when you need it!
Edit: Please mark the correct post as solved
Oh whoops. I marked the wrong post. I got it right this time
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Just a heads up, wait has been deprecated in favor of task.wait. You should be using that instead.
Wait, ‘wait()’ has been deprecated?