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What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want the player to be able to get stuck in the rolling snowball if they touch it (Already done).
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Creator Hub?
Couldn’t really think of anything and I couldn’t find any solutions/situations on the devforum that related to my problem.
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Players have the “Player” collision group so they can go through snowballs (to avoid snowballs from bouncing)
Snowballs have the “Snowball” collision group so they can go through players
Hope my code isn’t that bad
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local debris = game:GetService("Debris")
local sizeAdd = 0.275
while true do
local ball = Instance.new("Part")
ball.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
ball.Size = Vector3.new(2, 2, 2)
ball.Material = Enum.Material.Snow
ball.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
ball.Position = script.Parent.Position
ball.CollisionGroup = "Snowball"
ball.Parent = workspace
task.spawn(function()
while (ball.Parent == workspace) do
ball.Size = Vector3.new(ball.Size.X + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Y + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Z + sizeAdd)
task.wait(0.05)
end
end)
ball.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then
local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
local hum = player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local charParts = {}
for _, part in player.Character:GetDescendants() do
if part:IsA("BasePart") and part.CanCollide == true then
table.insert(charParts, part)
part.CanCollide = false
part.CanTouch = false
end
end
warn(part.Parent, charParts)
local weld = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
weld.Part0 = ball
weld.Part1 = hum.RootPart
weld.Parent = ball
hum.PlatformStand = true
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.PlatformStanding)
weld.Destroying:Once(function()
hum.PlatformStand = false
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.GettingUp)
weld:Destroy()
for _, part in pairs(charParts) do
part.CanCollide = true
part.CanTouch = true
end
table.clear(charParts)
end)
end
end)
debris:AddItem(ball, 5)
task.wait(1.5)
end
Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.
I’ve not touched Roblox scripting for a long time now, so I apologise if my suggestion doesn’t help your problem.
What I believe is the root cause of this issue is network ownerships. Roblox servers handle physics calculations in-game at all times, and sometimes it can lag the server (for example when many parts fall at once). To solve this issue, the server will regularly assign “physics ownership” to nearby players of an unanchored part so that the player’s computer becomes responsible for the said unanchored part’s physics calculations.
I think the reason why the snowball gets “controlled” by the player when they jump and get hit by it is due to the network ownership being assigned to the player, hence the player has full control of the snowball and can somewhat control the snowball’s movement. To solve this, you may check out this article about network onwership:
Tried every method and example that Roblox had showed on that article (such as ball:SetNetworkOwner(nil) to have the ownership of the ball to be the server) and none of seem to work. Maybe I could be doing something wrong or not reading the article correctly, no clue.
Neither of them worked. I even tried running a repeat loop and a while loop (not both of them at the same time, just one of them in other tests), but neither of them worked either.
Additionally, I added some debug printing to get the humanoid’s state and it prints out PlatformStanding (which is pretty much what I want) but the character still looks like they’re freefalling and sometimes, the player can run (only for a split second) while they’re in the snowball.
well if youre setting the humanoids state to Physics then shouldnt the humanoid’s state be Physics and not PlatformStand..?
could you send a video of it?
What the code looks like right now (removed setting the humanoid to PlatformStand after you replied):
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local debris = game:GetService("Debris")
local sizeAdd = 0.275
while true do
local ball = Instance.new("Part")
ball.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
ball.Size = Vector3.new(2, 2, 2)
ball.Material = Enum.Material.Snow
ball.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
ball.Position = script.Parent.Position
ball.CollisionGroup = "Snowball"
ball.Parent = workspace
task.spawn(function()
while (ball.Parent == workspace) do
ball.Size = Vector3.new(ball.Size.X + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Y + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Z + sizeAdd)
task.wait(0.05)
end
end)
ball.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then
local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
local hum = player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Physics)
print(hum:GetState())
local charParts = {}
for _, part in player.Character:GetDescendants() do
if part:IsA("BasePart") and part.CanCollide == true then
table.insert(charParts, part)
part.CanCollide = false
part.CanTouch = false
end
end
local weld = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
weld.Part0 = ball
weld.Part1 = hum.RootPart
weld.Parent = ball
weld.Destroying:Once(function()
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.GettingUp)
weld:Destroy()
for _, part in pairs(charParts) do
part.CanCollide = true
part.CanTouch = true
end
table.clear(charParts)
end)
end
end)
debris:AddItem(ball, 5)
task.wait(1.5)
end
It seems to me that setting the humanoid’s state to Physics had the bug occur more often where sometimes the issue would happen when I’m not moving.
Try setting the network owner of the character to the server before changing states, since humanoid states cannot be set without being the network owner of the character.
Works great now! Thank you! Sorry it took me a bit to respond back because I was testing many times, and I was confused on why the ownership of the snowballs become the client after a few minutes. Had the ownership of the ball be the server upon a player touching, but NOT upon being created (hope that made sense) which looks smoother now. Thanks again!
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local debris = game:GetService("Debris")
local sizeAdd = 0.275
while true do
local ball = Instance.new("Part")
ball.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
ball.Size = Vector3.new(2, 2, 2)
ball.Material = Enum.Material.Snow
ball.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
ball.Position = script.Parent.Position
ball.CollisionGroup = "Snowball"
ball.Parent = workspace
ball:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
task.spawn(function()
while (ball.Parent == workspace) do
ball.Size = Vector3.new(ball.Size.X + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Y + sizeAdd, ball.Size.Z + sizeAdd)
task.wait(0.05)
end
end)
ball.Touched:Connect(function(part)
if players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then
local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
local hum = player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
hum.RootPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Physics)
print(hum:GetState())
local charParts = {}
for _, part in player.Character:GetDescendants() do
if part:IsA("BasePart") and part.CanCollide == true then
table.insert(charParts, part)
part.CanCollide = false
part.CanTouch = false
end
end
local weld = Instance.new("WeldConstraint")
weld.Part0 = ball
weld.Part1 = hum.RootPart
weld.Parent = ball
weld.Destroying:Once(function()
hum:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.GettingUp)
hum.RootPart:SetNetworkOwner(player)
weld:Destroy()
for _, part in pairs(charParts) do
part.CanCollide = true
part.CanTouch = true
end
table.clear(charParts)
end)
end
end)
debris:AddItem(ball, 5)
task.wait(1.5)
end
