Raycasting, getting a player when a Ray hits them

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#21

Really now? Try printing the Humanoid? That’s honestly strange if it resulted as a nil value

#22

i printed Humanoid and it returned Nil

#23

Oh, w e l l t h e n

It’s probably the RayInstance that it couldn’t detect maybe? Try this:

				if raycastResult then
					local RayInstance = raycastResult.Instance
                    print(RayInstance)

                    if RayInstance then
				    	local Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

                        print(Humanoid)
                        Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
                    end
				else
					print("Something happened? But what? (That or a result has not been found)")
				end
#24

it printed “Handle” and also “Infinite yield possible on ‘Workspace.KIDamado80.BlackShortPartedHair:WaitForChild(“Humanoid”)’”

#25

This should work, but what about if it hits hair? Not sure if you already went over it but

                      if RayInstance then
				    	local Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
                        if Humanoid == nil then
	    		    	Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent.Parent
	    	    	   end
                        print(Humanoid)
                        if Humanoid then
                                       Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
                             end
                    end

ALSO IM GOING TO BREAK MY KEYBOARD WITH INCORRECT DEVFORUM FORMATING OMG

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#26

Because it hit the hair try doing

what I said above

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#27

LOL

Ok yeah from the warning it’s attempting to find the hair, didn’t keep that in mind (Since I’ve rarely used RayCasting, I gotcha mate)

                      if RayInstance then
				    	 local Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
                         if Humanoid == nil then
	    		       	     Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent.Parent
	    	    	     end
                         print(Humanoid)
                         Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
                     end
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#28

yeah it printed “Handle” then the Infinite yield

#29

OmG YoU StOlE My CoDe!!1111

Yeah, just make sure to check if the Humanoid is actually there, because it will error if there is still no Humanoid (if you didnt hit a player)

-- rest of code here lol
if Humanoid then
Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
end
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#30

this is how it looks now it still having the same issue

local part = script.Parent
local partmodel = workspace.Workerthrow



while wait(1) do
	for i, v in pairs(game.Workspace:GetChildren()) do
		local human = v:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		local torso = v:FindFirstChild("Head")
		if human and torso and human.Health > 0 then
			if (torso.Position - part.Position).magnitude < 100 then
				part.CFrame = CFrame.new(part.Position, torso.Position)
			end	
		end
	end
	local origin = part.Position
	local direction = part.CFrame.LookVector * 100

	local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()

	raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {part, partmodel}
	raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
	local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(origin, direction, raycastParams)
				
	if raycastResult then
		local RayInstance = raycastResult.Instance
		print(RayInstance)

		if RayInstance then
			local Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			if Humanoid == nil then
				Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent.Parent
				if Humanoid then
					Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
				end
			end
		end
	end
end
#31

Print the Humanoid before & after changing its value? I swear if you need to do 3 parents

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#32

How do you do strike through? (I’m a boomer)

Also, I don’t think you need to do 3 parents…

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#33

Just add 2 squiggly lines(~~) at the start & end of your sentence

~~Should look something like this~~

Well, it seems to be not working in the code he sent?

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#34

yeah it keeps printing “Handle” for some reason? and also the yield, well it only prints handle once then the Infinite yield

#35

Could it be possible that something could be blocking the Ray from moving at all?

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#36

I don’t think so.

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But try it.

			local Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			if Humanoid == nil then
				Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
				if Humanoid then
					Humanoid = RayInstance.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
					if Humanoid then
						Humanoid:TakeDamage(10)
					end
				end
			end

LOL I JUST REALIZED WE FORGOT THE TO ADD WAIT FOR CHILD HUMANOID ON 2ND PARENT LOL

This should work

@KIDamado80 try this it should def work

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#37

still prints Handle once and then the Infinite yield

#38

then it is hitting the handle (aka your hair) of something

can you
print(RayInstance.Parent)

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#39

bam, now it just prints out my hair name lol

#40

Alright, that’s good.

print(RayInstance.Parent.Parent.Name)

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