Raycast for Sword hit detection

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#1

I am basically firing multiple rays along the blade to detect if it has hit something. The problem is I am only able to fire 8 rays in 0.3 secs (how long the animation lasts), which creates big spaces between rays where a part can be undetected.

I wanted to know if there’s a better way to detect a hit without using the touched event or a way to fire more rays.

edit: I am using the spawn function to run the detection

function DetectPart() -- Raycast to find Part
	while Slashes[Amount].IsPlaying do
		wait()

		local Start = Sword.Point.CFrame
		local NewRay = Ray.new(Start.Position, Start.lookVector * 4.5)
		local Part, Position = workspace:FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList(NewRay, Character:GetDescendants())
		
		if Part and Part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then

			Sword.Blade.Hit:Play()
			Part.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(5)

			break
		end
	end
end
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.Touched or RayCasting for meele weapons?
#2

If you want to create more rays in a shorter amount of time you can use RunService and Heartbeat

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Heartbeat:Wait() 
-- instead of wait()
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#3

Oh so then what’s the default wait() value, I thought it was small enough to allow for a lot of rays.
Thanks this worked by the way!

#4

As of now, wait() will yield for whatever amount of time you input, but will not go any lower than 0.03, or about 1/30th of a second.

Should the need for shorter delays arise, I resort to RunService.Heartbeat:Wait() in Scripts (or RenderStepped:Wait() in LocalScripts). Unfortunately this is locked to 1/60th of a second (0.016 seconds)

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