Should I use bricks or particle effects for my damage effect?

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#1

I’m making a combat game, and I want to make the characters bleed a little bit when they’re hit. I already have the scripts figured out for the hit event and spawning parts.
My problem is that I don’t know whether to use brick parts or particles for the blood. The script I have currently will spawn a random amount of “blood parts” when a character is hit:

local function OnPunchHit(player, touchedHumanoid, punchDamageMin, punchDamageMax)
	touchedHumanoid:TakeDamage(math.random(punchDamageMin, punchDamageMax))
	
	for i=math.random(1, 3), 1, -1 do
		local bloodPart = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
		bloodPart.CFrame = touchedHumanoid.Parent.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
		bloodPart.Rotation = Vector3.new(math.random(-180, 180), math.random(-180, 180), math.random(-180, 180))
		bloodPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.Red()
		bloodPart.Size = Vector3.new(1, 0.5, 1)
		bloodPart.CanCollide = false
		
		local bloodPartVelocity = Instance.new("BodyVelocity", bloodPart)
		bloodPartVelocity.Velocity = Vector3.new(math.random(-15, 15), math.random(2, 5), math.random(-15, 15))
		
		game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(bloodPartVelocity, math.random(-0.5, 0.5))
		game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(bloodPart, 2)
	end
end

Is this approach good, or could I get a better looking blood effect using particles?

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#3

I think it’s best to use parts, but enlarge them when they hit the ground. You could also apply an impulse to them and add multiple parts rather than just one…

edit: or add spherical puddles in the position where they hit the ground rather than enlarging them

#4

Rather than just blocks, you can change their shapes to be spheres as well
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#5

What do you mean by “impulse”? I applied a BodyVelocity to each part if that’s what you mean. Also, I do spawn multiple parts. It is a random number from 1 to 3, and the amount actually spawned is a bit more because of the way I made the hit detection.

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#6

Sounds good :+1: EXTRA CHARACTERS

#7

Something I believe could be done is add trails to the parts rather than have the parts themselves represent the blood particles.
You could color it red and change the lifetime to 0.5.

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#8

it gives a nice effect like this:

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#9

It’s a nice effect, but a bit too modern and detailed for my tastes. Thanks for the general guidance, though. I’ll try doing something similar.

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#10

No problem. Please tell me if you require further help.

#11

I can’t figure out how to make the blood parts change when they hit the ground. Instead, they change when they hit the character they came out of. I tried adding a check to make sure the blood would only become a pool if it didn’t hit a character, but for some reason that doesn’t work. Do you know a way to do this?
(EDIT) This is the code I used:

		bloodPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
			if hit:IsDescendantOf(player.Character) == false and hit:IsDescendantOf(workspace.Dummy) == false then
				print(hit.Name.." Was not part of a character")
				bloodPart.Rotation = Vector3.new(0, -90, 0)
				bloodPart.Anchored = true
				bloodPart.Size = Vector3.new(math.random(1.5, 4), 0.25, math.random(1.5, 4))
			else
				print(hit.Name.." Was part of a character")
			end
		end)
#12

For my blood system, something I did was place all the parts and models that were part of the map in a folder called “Map”, and then checked if the blood part hit a part that is a descendant of that folder using something like this:

if hit:FindFirstAncestor("Map") then
   -- rest of the code to change the blood part
end