Currently still working on a boss fight, had some trouble conveying a player’s position to a separate melee script, so I used an object value. The object value’s value is the player’s HumanoidRootPart. In my code, which is being assigned by the main code to make the enemy move. For God knows what reason, it’s able to get the position of the HRP just fine in the move code but apparently it can’t do that for the ObjectValue despite it being the same information.
I’ve looked at a couple different posts and none have really seemed to clarify my issue or find a solution.
Here’s the logic for the attack:
local model = script.Parent
local root = model:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart')
local currentTarget = model._currentTarget
local attacks = require(model.Main.Attacks)
local maxRange = 12
local attacking = false
while task.wait() do
if currentTarget == nil then return end
print(currentTarget, typeof(currentTarget))
local distance = (currentTarget.Value.Position - model.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude
if distance > 12 then return end -- code below should only run if distance is less than or equal to 12
local humanoid = target:FindFirstChildOfClass('Humanoid')
if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(target) and humanoid and humanoid.Health > 0 and not attacking then
attacking = true
attacks.melee()
end
end
I’ve printed out the _currentTarget value and it’s type, and it’s giving me HumanoidRootPart Instance, so somethings up with the properties of that object but I’m not sure how to fix that.
This is definitely roundabout. Not once have I ever encountered a situation where a position needed to be communicated over an ObjectValue. If you can provide more information, I’m sure we can divulge a better solution
Hello! I tried to use the same module I’m using for my movement function but no matter what I input, even the same values for the movement, the returned player would always be nil, so getting desperate, I swapped over to an ObectValue.
Edit: I’d be happy to supply you with the code for the Target module if you’d like.
Sure thing. Here’s the code that the Target module is using:
local targets = {}
local npc = script.Parent.Parent
function targets.findNearestTarget()
local range = math.huge
local nearestTarget = nil
for _, player in game.Players:GetPlayers() do
local target = workspace:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
if target and target:FindFirstChildOfClass('Humanoid').Health > 0 then
local distance = (target.PrimaryPart.Position - npc.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude
if distance <= range then
range = distance
nearestTarget = target
end
end
end
return nearestTarget, range
end
return targets
Here’s how the main script is interpreting it:
local function move()
local target, distance = targets.findNearestTarget()
if target == nil then return end
currenttarget.Value = target.HumanoidRootPart
local humanoid = target:FindFirstChildOfClass('Humanoid')
if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(target) and humanoid and humanoid.Health > 0 then
entityHumanoid:MoveTo(target.PrimaryPart.Position)
end
if distance <= ranges.sight then
-- do abilities
end
end
if currentTarget == nil then return end
This is checking the value instance itself, but not its value property. Change to if currentTarget.Value == nil then return end
Took Ziffix’ advice and stopped using the ObjectValue and instead resorted back to the module. The error would’ve occurred when defining the Distance variable. The module currently still has an issue where it returns nil for the target.
Oh, actually I’m not sure! Taking your advice, the module does print me as the nearestTarget and returns that value, but when being indexed by the script, the target returns nil.
Edit: It looks like the melee function detected it was nil when I first spawned in and the game didn’t detect I was in the game quite yet, but stopped running after the target script identified me as the nearest target.
Yeah, no. The script just refuses to run again after erroring:
local model = script.Parent
local root = model:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart')
local targets = require(model.Main.Targets)
local attacks = require(model.Main.Attacks)
local maxRange = 12
local attacking = false
while task.wait() do
local target, distance = targets.findNearestTarget()
print(target, typeof(target))
if target == nil then return end
print('got target')
local humanoid = target:FindFirstChildOfClass('Humanoid')
if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(target) and humanoid and humanoid.Health > 0 and not attacking then
print('is attacking!')
attacking = true
attacks.melee()
task.wait(3)
attacking = false
end
end
Wouldn’t necessarily change much if I changed ‘return’ to ‘break’ or nothing at all since it’ll still break the repeat loop or stop when it tried to find a Humanoid in nil. I could try creating a separate loop just to index the humanoid.
Awesome! I was gonna send you this code snippet, but while trying to boot up studio so the code was correctly formatted, I had some trouble
while task.wait() do
local target, distance = targets.findNearestTarget()
if target then
local humanoid = target:FindFirstChildOfClass('Humanoid')
if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(target) and humanoid and humanoid.Health > 0 and not attacking then
print('is attacking!')
attacking = true
attacks.melee()
task.wait(3)
attacking = false
end
end
end
