What is the best way to make a knockback effect without using look vectors?

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#1

The title says it, no Look Vectors. I’m trying to get the direction right.

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#2

Look vectors is literally your best friend here.

local targetPos = --the position of the thign thats being knocked
local sourcePos = -- source position of impact

local lookVector = CFrame.lookAt(sourcePos, targetPos).LookVector

local magnitude = 5 -- how powerful you want the knockback to be
humanoid.Parent.Torso.AssemblyAngularVelocity = lookVector * magnitude

Otherwise you would have to manually calculate the direction of the knockback, which sucks.

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#3

Ok, I’ll try that out. Will it have the right direction? Like if the target is moving away from me, I don’t want the knockback force to go to the wrong direction.

#4

It should calculate at the instance you want it to, you may have to change the magnitude to see the effect

#5

AngularVelocity? Don’t you want to use LinearVelocity?

#6

Oh yea sorry, I forget they had two different properties for that.

#7

Is it better to use assemblyvelocity or applyimpulse() ?

#8

Didn’t even know ApplyImpulse was a thing, but it sounds like it’d work.

#9

WAIT! Make the hit player face the hitter before knocking them back with the lookvector.

#10

What will happen if the source is at the top of the target, what will happen to the knockback force direction?

#11

Setting AssemblyLinearVelocity directly might lead to unrealistic motion so its preffered to use ApplyImpulse.

#12

But this can only be used if the ownership is on the server right

#13

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