Why isnt this part detecting collisions consistently?

[ew_iscool (goober)]

so i wanted to create a punch hitbox that gets created everytime someone clicks, which works.

what doesnt work however, is the part itself. it detects collisions VERY inconsistently, and very rarely. i made the part flash red whenever it detected a collision, and it only detects a collision every 1/10 punches.

anything helps!!

script

local enterEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Going_In
local punchEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Punch


punchEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	local character = player.Character
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local hrp = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	local leaderstats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
	local punches = leaderstats:WaitForChild("Punches")

	local punchey_part = Instance.new("Part")
	punchey_part.CanCollide = false
	punchey_part.Anchored = true
	punchey_part.Size = Vector3.new(4,4,4)
	punchey_part.CFrame = hrp.CFrame
	punchey_part.Parent = character
	punchey_part.Transparency = 0
	
	local function playAnimationFromServer(character, animation)
		local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
		if humanoid then
			-- need to use animation object for server access
			local animator = humanoid:FindFirstChildOfClass("Animator")
			if animator then
				local animationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
				animationTrack:Play()
				return animationTrack
			end
		end
	end

	local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
	animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://15196133419"
	playAnimationFromServer(character, animation)
	
	punchey_part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		punchey_part.Color = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
		local debounce = true
		if hit.Parent ~= punchey_part.Parent then
			local human = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			local hrp = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			if human and debounce == true and hit == hrp and humanoid.Health > 0 then
				human.Health -= 10
				punches.Value += 1
				hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("RagdollTrigger").Value = true
				wait(1)
				hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("RagdollTrigger").Value = false
				debounce = false
			end
		end
	end)
	wait(0.1)
	punchey_part:Destroy()
end)

[iATtaCk_Noobsi (Noob)]

Touched() isn’t very accurate, I suggest you use workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox()

[Zerin107 (Zerin)]

Or could use workspace:GetPartsInPart(), since he already has a hitbox

[ew_iscool (goober)]

im looking at the roblox docs, and im not sure how it works.

can you explain how it works?

[Zerin107 (Zerin)]

workspace:GetPartsBoundInBox(position, size, overlap parameters(optional))
in your case it would be

workspace:GetPartsBoundInBox(hrp.Position, Vector3.new(x,y,z))

but since you already have a part you could do

workspace:GetPartsInPart(punchey_part)

They return a table of parts which you can go trough with a for loop.

local overlapParameters = OverlapParams.new()
overlapParameters.BruteForceAllSlow = true -- so it checks EVERY part that is touching the hitbox
local touchingParts = workspace:GetPartsInPart(punchey_part)
for _, hit in pairs(touchingParts) do
        if hit.Parent ~= punchey_part.Parent then
			local human = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
			local hrp = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
			if human and debounce == true and hit == hrp and humanoid.Health > 0 then
				human.Health -= 10
				punches.Value += 1
				hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("RagdollTrigger").Value = true
				wait(1)
				hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("RagdollTrigger").Value = false
				debounce = false
			end
		end
        break
end

This is something you can replace it with

[ew_iscool (goober)]

im trying to implement it, but it doesnt work, but it does work. im gonna go do some terrible code surgery and read up on these :getpartsinpart() thing later