What's the best way to do hit detection for melee combat?

[SwenzjeSwave]

What’s the best way to do hit detection for melee combat such as punching, sword slashing, etc.? Right now I’m creating a Region3 every frame and checking if anything is in the Region3 as a way of hit detection but I don’t think it’s very efficient due to the performance cost of the method. I also don’t really want to use .Touched since it’s not very reliable and sometimes just doesn’t fire.

[goldenstein64 (Shoop)]

I answered a similar post to this here:

Making a making a hitbox more accurate?

Assuming your hitbox is a part with CanCollide false, you can call Part:GetTouchingParts as long as you have a function connected to its Touched event. The cool part is that the function binded can be empty, aka function() end. There is another game that I have asked this question to which involves hitboxes, and they use magnitude checks instead of actual hitboxes to detect hits, which is inaccurate but still fast. local hitbox = --Part --Using Part:GetTouchingParts local newHitbox = hitbox:C…

I hope that helps!

[Senbanistan (Sebastian)]

What I do for lightsabers in my Star Wars game involves firing a ray up and down the length of the blade and checking for intersecting parts. When you connect a system like this to RunService.Stepped, it becomes extremely accurate.