What is a better way then just looping through everything in the workspace?

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#1

I want to know how I can prevent too many loops and make it so I don’t have to loop through the games workspace every time a player wants to slash for my magnitude hotbox system.

Code:

for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace:GetChildren()) do
		if v:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			local enemyHrp = v:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			if (RootPart.Position-enemyHrp.Position).Magnitude <= Range and v.Name ~= name then
				
				local hum = v:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
				hum:TakeDamage(Damage)
			end
		end
		
	end
#2

put the script in StarterCharacterScripts instead.
the Player Character Will be The Parent

#3

What about using Region3s?

#4

you could add the players character to a folder in workspace and loop through the folder

#5

I believe Region3 is mostly Deprecated, newer solution would be Overlap Params

#6

if u want to find an specific object with no looping this is a method:

instace:FindFirstChild("idk", true)
#7

Eh. Im not interested in raycasting or region3 or overlap params.

#8

But you need to loop through all the player character instances in order to find if a character is in the hitbox

#9

ok so instead of that use get players so u dont loop all workspace

#10

GetPlayers() does not loop through the character objects, it only loops through player objects.

#11

Can’t you grab the HRP and Enemy distance without looping through workspace, and if it isn’t in range you just return the script? (Bad english :D)

#12

yeah but u dont understand the point bro u can loop by the player character with that method .__.

#13

yeah that’s my problem. Im trying to figure a way to do that

#14

Can you show a example of this?

#15

eeeeee
try this

#16

that actually can have some error with rbx core scripts

#17

then the best way is as you said GetPlayers()

#18

yeah of course

for i, plr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
       if plr.Character then
             local Hrp = plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart
             --doSomething
     end
end
#19

Hmm… Let me try this new method.

#20

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/CollectionService

Use the ‘CollectionService’ to tag humanoids.