Raycasting Guns

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#1

So I am making a fighting games but where you fight NPC’s and I have been doing experiments and I a NPC kill for cash leaderboard and when you kill an NPC you get rewarded with 15 cash. My problem/experiment is that when I kill a NPC with the default roblox sword it gives me cash. But when I do it with the guns I made and certain guns from the toolbox it does nothing. How could I make it to where when I kill an NPC with ANY weapon it counts for cash. Here is the leaderstats script:

 game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	
	local Cash = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats)
	Cash.Name = "Cash"
end)


Yes a very basic leaderboard.
Here is the NPC's Cash script:


script.Parent.Zombie.Died:connect(function() --The NPC's Humanoid is named Zombie
	local tag = humanoid:FindFirstChild("creator")
	if tag ~= nil then
		if tag.Value ~= nil then
			local leaderstats = tag.Value:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
			if leaderstats ~= nil then
				leaderstats.Cash.Value = leaderstats.Cash.Value + 15
				wait(0)
			end
		end
	end
Thanks
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#2

what is “tag.Value”, is that the name of the player or is an Object Value that is the player/

#4

Do your guns have a script to tag the zombie?

#5

Yes but they do not work for some reason

#6

But in your guns, once you detect that a player has killed a zombie, does an ObjectValue even get inserted into the zombie?

#7

What is the value of the tag, the player’s name or the player itself?

#8

They each have different kinds and each gun works differently

#9

The player is the tag.Value, Value

#10

Any errors? Also could you add print statements after each “if statement” so that we know where the code breaks.

#11

No there has been no errors it’s just for some reason different guns wont register the scripts and just do nothing. Which is the problem

#12

I have also learned that melee weapons like swords and stuff have a better outcome percentage. But guns have a low percentage chance of working. I would like to have more guns than melee weapons.

#13

For example, let’s say you wanted to tag the zombie after the player has shot it.

function OnHit(hit)
    if hit.Parent then
        local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
        if hum then
           --Do Damage
           
           -- Add a tag to the zombie
           local tag = Instance.new("ObjectValue",hit.Parent)
           tag.Name = "creator"
           tag.Value = plr -- Player who fired the gun
        end
    end
end
#14

If you want to add a tag only when the player has KILLED the zombie, you can do this instead:

function OnHit(hit)
    if hit.Parent then
        local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
        if hum then
           --Do Damage
       
           -- Add a tag to the zombie
           if hum.Health <= 0 then --Player has killed the zombie because Health is lower than 0
               local tag = Instance.new("ObjectValue",hit.Parent)
               tag.Name = "creator"
               tag.Value = plr -- Player who fired the gun
           end
        end
    end
end
#15

I just tried the first one and it did nothing

#16

Did you define what humanoid is?

local tag = humanoid:FindFirstChild("creator")
#17

Also, I’m assuming you have multiple zombies, so when you use this:

script.Parent.Zombie.Died:connect(function()

script.Parent.Zombie could point to the first instance of child named “Zombie” in the workspace(assuming your script is in the workspace)

#18

I just defined what humanoid is and still nothing with both scripts

#19

Also the zombie with the scripts is in RelicatedStorage because I have spawners and a wave system that handles them

#20

Why are you checking if the zombie died in the leaderstats script? You should make a script that is in the zombie, checking if the zombie died.

Instead of using
script.Parent.Zombie.Humanoid.Died

use
script.Parent.Humanoid.Died

#21

Wait, also you are calling .Died on the Zombie itself? .Died is an event fired by the humanoid, so you have to do script.Parent.Zombie.Humanoid.Died instead.