Tool not registering damage fast enough

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#1

So my tool requires that I touch the target for an extended period of time to work, and I’m not quite sure why. I want it to damage them the first time I make contact with them. At first I thought the issue might be that the part making contact was too small, and therefore was not making contact correctly. To remedy this, I tried making a transparent part to register the hit instead, and that still did not work.

Local script:


local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local animation = script.Parent:WaitForChild("NarutoRasenganAnimation")
local debounce = false

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
	if not debounce then
		debounce = true
		local AnimationTrack = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
		AnimationTrack:Play()
		script.Parent.RasenganActivate:FireServer()
		wait(30)
		debounce = false
	end
end)

Relevant portion of Server Script:

script.Parent.handle.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit.Parent ~= player.Character and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			if not debounce then
				debounce = true
				hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= 30
				local boomSound = ServerStorage.Sounds.BoomSound:Clone()
				boomSound.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
				boomSound:Play()
				wait(3)
				boomSound:Destroy()
				debounce = false
			end
		end
	end)

Video of occurrence:

robloxapp-20210315-2103580.wmv (1.7 MB)

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#2

I mean, you could just make it into 1 entire Server Script & do the code that way if it works better? Just put the Touched event inside the Activated event on a Server Script to see if that’s quicker?

#3

So I converted it all into a server script and the exact thing still happens (I should have assigned script.Parent.Parent to a character variable to improve readability but I was in a rush to see if this would fix the issue).

local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")

local debounce = false
local weld
local rasenganHoldingAnimation = script.Parent:WaitForChild("NarutoRasenganHoldingAnimation")
local animation = script.Parent:WaitForChild("NarutoRasenganAnimation")

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.Parent.Rasengan.handle.Transparency = 0.3
	script.Parent.Parent.Rasengan.Part.Transparency = 0.3
	
	local narutoClone = ServerStorage.Characters.Naruto:Clone()
	narutoClone.Parent = workspace
	narutoClone.Name = "Naruto"
	local narutoCloneCFrame = (script.Parent.Parent.PrimaryPart.CFrame:ToWorldSpace(CFrame.new(5, 0, -4)))
	narutoCloneCFrame = CFrame.lookAt(narutoCloneCFrame.Position, script.Parent.Parent.PrimaryPart.Position)
	narutoClone:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(narutoCloneCFrame)

	local rasenganNarutoCloneAnimation = narutoClone.RasenganNarutoCloneAnimation
	
	script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
	local jutsuSound = ServerStorage.Sounds.JutsuSound:Clone()
	jutsuSound.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
	jutsuSound:Play()
	local animationTrackRasengan = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
	animationTrackRasengan:Play()
	local animationTrackRasenganNarutoCloneAnimation = narutoClone.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(rasenganNarutoCloneAnimation)
	animationTrackRasenganNarutoCloneAnimation:Play()
	wait(3)
	jutsuSound:Destroy()
	local poofSound = ServerStorage.Sounds.PoofSound:Clone()
	poofSound.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
	poofSound:Play()
	narutoClone:Destroy()
	local animationTrackRasenganHolding = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(rasenganHoldingAnimation)
	animationTrackRasenganHolding:Play()
	script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 40
	wait(5)
	poofSound:Destroy()
	script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 16
	script.Parent.Parent.Rasengan.handle.Transparency = 1
	script.Parent.Parent.Rasengan.Part.Transparency = 1
	
	
	script.Parent.handle.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		if hit.Parent ~= script.Parent.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			if not debounce then
				debounce = true
				hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= 30
				local boomSound = ServerStorage.Sounds.BoomSound:Clone()
				boomSound.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
				boomSound:Play()
				wait(3)
				boomSound:Destroy()
				debounce = false
			end
		end
	end)
end)

script.Parent.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local partToFix = script.Parent.handle
	weld = Instance.new("ManualWeld", partToFix)
	weld.Part0 = script.Parent.Parent["Right Arm"]
	weld.Part1 = partToFix
	weld.C0 = CFrame.new(0,-1.5,0)
end)

script.Parent.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	weld:Destroy()
end)
#4

Try printing out a couple statements inside & outside the Touched event

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#5

Thank you for that piece of advice, I always forget to check things like that with prints. It was the issue of the touched event being after the 5 second wait on the end and not before.

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#6

Yeaaah, you should always make sure that your script fully works by debugging it with print() statements before posting here :sweat_smile: Glad you were able to fix it though!

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