Trying to create a humanoid shield for the player

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#1

Hi, so I’m working on a commission for a shield ability. Basically, you get a shield around your character that protects you from projectiles.

Issue is, there’s dozens of pre-existing weapons that I really can’t go back and modify to use different logic to account for shield. So, this forces me to look at other options.

I thought of using a humanoid-NPC model that acts as a shield. I made a model with a humanoid and a Torso part in it, I then weld the torso to the player’s root part. However, this creates horrible collision problems with the player itself. I tried using Collision Groups so the shield’s parts do not collide with the player’s limbs, but that surprisingly did nothing. If I delete the humanoid in the model, these problems dissipate.

Any ideas for this? :confused:

Thanks.

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#2

No no no no no no no no no no and no.

Roblox does not like humanoids being used for things that are not characters. How do you deal damage with your other weapons? If you use :TakeDamage then a ForceField object can prevent the health from decreasing (although there’s no way to disable the visual effect). If that’s not an option, I would create a module or have a function accessible by all your weapons and then just use the Find Results panel to find/replace all instances of taking away health with your new function.

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#3

Yeah, I figured it was a hacky solution :joy:

Thanks for the suggestions.

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