I’m trying to make a NPC that attacks the player if they are touching and attacks again if the player is still touching after a short cooldown.
so after I updated the NPC script (the go_to_player function) to start attacking more than once if the player is still touching the NPC roblox studio will freeze if the NPC touches the player. but the freeze isn’t 100% freeze and it doesn’t start using 100% of my CPU. it’s almost like I somehow completely stopped the game rendering. but studio still doesn’t stop the game even after waiting for a while and stops responding but only after I press the stop button.
I’ve tried adding a bunch of print statements that are now commented out as you can see because they just told me the script was getting to the end of the function.
so I’m just at a loss of what to even try.
updated script:
humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
model = humanoid.Parent
local trigger_dist = 40
local see_dist = trigger_dist
local damage_wait_time = 0.5
local damage_per_hit = 4
canDoDamge = true
humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
local mod = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.respawn)
local childs = model:GetChildren()
-- remove the body parts that still hurt you after the npc dies
for i = 1, #childs do
if childs[i]:IsA("Part") and childs[i].Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart" then
childs[i]:Destroy()
end
end
mod.respawn_after_auto_time("debug", script.Parent.Parent)
-- delete the model
humanoid.Parent:Destroy()
end)
function go_to_player(player)
local p_HRT = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart
humanoid:MoveTo(p_HRT.Position)
p_HRT.Touched:connect(function(part)
local stop_attacking = false
local should_stop_attacking = false
while not stop_attacking do
-- print("about to GetTouchingParts ")
local parts = part:GetTouchingParts()
local size2 = 0
for _ in pairs(parts) do size2 = size2 + 1 end
-- print("got" .. size2 .. "touching parts")
should_stop_attacking = true
-- print("got after should stop attacking")
for i = 1, #parts do
-- print("i: "..i)
local hum = parts[i].Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
if hum then
should_stop_attacking = false
-- print("damage check")
if canDoDamge then
player.Character.Humanoid.Health -= damage_per_hit
canDoDamge = false
wait(damage_wait_time)
canDoDamge = true
end
end
end
-- print("got to if")
if should_stop_attacking then
-- print("inside if")
stop_attacking = true
-- print("after stop attacking")
end
end
end)
end
while true do
local NPC_POS = script.Parent.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.Position
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
p_dist = player:DistanceFromCharacter(NPC_POS)
if p_dist < trigger_dist then
local status, err = pcall(go_to_player, player)
if not status then
print("error, player probably just joined. "..err)
end
end
end
repeat
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
p_dist = player:DistanceFromCharacter(NPC_POS)
end
if p_dist == nil then
p_dist = see_dist+1
end
wait()
until p_dist < see_dist
end
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