Raycast distance and changing damage based off that

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#1

Im making an fps game, i’m trying to make it like PF or Arsenal, in those games, the further away you are from the target, the less damage it will do, i know how to measure the distance

Calculating Distance Variable:

	local Distance = (BarrelPos - MousePos).magnitude

but i can’t think of the maths that i’d need to do to calculate what damage the player should do at the set range.

RayCast Code:

local function Raycast(player,BarrelPos,MousePos)
	local ray = workspace:Raycast(BarrelPos,(MousePos - BarrelPos).unit * 5000,RayCastParam) 
	local Distance = (BarrelPos - MousePos).magnitude
	if ray then
		local humanoid = ray.Instance.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		local Enemy = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(ray.Instance.Parent)
		if CanShoot == true then
			if humanoid and not humanoid:IsDescendantOf(player.Character) then
				if ray.Instance.Name:lower() == "headhitbox" or ray.Instance.Name:lower() == "head" then
					HitMarkerSound:Play()
					HitMarkerImage.ImageTransparency = 0
					FireEvent:FireServer(humanoid,HeadShotDamage)
					print("headshot")
				elseif ray.Instance.Name:lower() == "bodyhitbox" or ray.Instance.Name:lower() ~= "head" then
					HitMarkerImage.ImageTransparency = 0
					HitMarkerSound:Play()
					FireEvent:FireServer(humanoid,Damage)
					print("body shot")
				end
			end
			if Enemy then
				
			end
		end
		end
end
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#2

Put this in your code :

local Damage = Damage/Distance * Damage--put "local", it is important :)

i don’t speak english very well lol

#3

Sometimes when im not even that far away from what im shooting, i get really low values, how do i increase that? i set the distance to

(BarrelPos - ray.hit.Instance).magnitude
#4

you could increase the damage value or do this instead

local Damage = Distance/CriticDamageDistance * Damage

(not even sure if this would work lol)

#5

the problem with this code is that it works the oppisite way, the further away you are, the more damage you do

#6

my bad, it is CriticDamageDistance/Distance * Damage

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#7

also if you think it is op you could use math.min(number,max number)

local Damage = math.min(CriticDamageDistance/Distance,number) *Damage