Enemy damage detection broken

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in Breached, I tried to make the enemies take damage with their own hitbox, but doing that I was unable to make the enemies interact with walls, so I tried to make it so that the enemies spawn a hitbox that follows them everywhere, but the new hitbox is not detecting anything, I even tried logging it(with console.error) to see if they are activating, but I got the names slightly wrong, but no, I got nothing

can I have help figuring out how to solve this?

script link: PlayCanvas | HTML5 Game Engine

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Can you send the editor link to me?

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https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/2047896

4

How do you damage the enemies?

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Press ā€œZā€ to fire the laser pistol in the direction you are facing

it doesnā€™t work yet

the laser pistol does, not the damaging

touching the ā€œAlphadelā€ should damage the player but the damaging hitbox will also do that

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and press ā€œCā€ to dash, I am thinking of using ā€œSā€ and ā€œXā€ for something, but I havenā€™t figured out what for yet.

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Thanks, can I see your bullet code?

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I mean whatever code makes the bullet.

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NVM I found it. This section, I think:

 if (this.app.keyboard.wasPressed(pc.KEY_Z)){
        isFiring = 1
        fireTime = 0.15
        if (blastType == 1){
            var templateAsset = this.blastUpgrade
            var instance = templateAsset.resource.instantiate();      
        var position = this.entity.getPosition();
        var entity = new pc.Entity();
        this.app.root.addChild(entity);
        if (direction == 90){
            entity.translate(position.x + 0.3, position.y - 0.04, position.z + 0.5);
        } else if (direction == -90) {
            entity.translate(position.x - 0.3, position.y - 0.04, position.z + 0.5);
        } else if (direction == 0) {
            entity.translate(position.x, position.y + 0.3, position.z + 0.5);
        } else {
            entity.translate(position.x, position.y - 0.3, position.z + 0.5);
        }
        entity.rotate(0,0,direction)
        entity.addChild(instance);
        } else {
        var templateAsset = this.defaultBlast;
        var instance = templateAsset.resource.instantiate();      
        var position = this.entity.getPosition();
        var entity = new pc.Entity();
        this.app.root.addChild(entity);
        if (direction == 90){
            entity.translate(position.x + 0.2, position.y - 0.04, position.z + 0.5);
        } else if (direction == -90) {
            entity.translate(position.x - 0.2, position.y - 0.04, position.z + 0.5);
        } else if (direction == 0) {
            entity.translate(position.x, position.y + 0.2, position.z + 0.5);
        } else {
            entity.translate(position.x, position.y - 0.2, position.z + 0.5);
        }
        entity.rotate(0,0,direction)
        entity.addChild(instance);
        }

I dont think you name the entity. I recomend cloning instead of making a new entity.

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It works with the boss hp script as the laser shot is created from a template, so it keeps the name of the template

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Sorry, Iā€™ve never worked with templates. Do you use the same collision detection as the boss?

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No Arachnadrone has a separate entity for a hitbox because Arachnadrone only appears as a boss once, so I donā€™t need to add one for him as there is only one and his script prevents him from walking through walls anyway.

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Sorry, but I donā€™t have any more ideas myself, but hopefully this page can help: Collision and Triggers | PlayCanvas Developer Site

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oh, thanks, accually, I didnt see it before, but I can use this.entity.collision.on('collisionstart', this.takeDamage, this) to detect if two rigidbodies touch, and it is reading the function to do or take damage every time I touch it. Although the function is activating, it is not triggering ether of the events in it, so it might not be detecting the whole entity, just the rigidbody component.

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Are you sure about this? I recently noticed that when you rename a template in the editor, it isnā€™t renamed internally. Only the visual name changed. You can check the name of the entity with the console of your browser using something like console.log(entity.name).

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the name of the template can be changed, but changing the name of the template does not affect the entityā€™s name that was saved in the template, I figured that out while troubleshooting the laser pistol firing and boss HP

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To be sure the entity has the correct name, you can set it by script.

entity.name = 'Name';
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I have it like that, but the problem is that I have a

this.entity.collision.on('collisionstart', this.takeDamage, this)

that connects to

EnemyMovementAndAttack.prototype.takeDamage = function(check) {
if (check.entity.name == ā€˜Normal blastā€™) {
this.hp -= 10
check.destroy();
} else if (check.entity.name == ā€˜Qisteā€™) {
this.app.fire(ā€˜damage Qisteā€™, this.touchPower)
}
console.error(ā€˜hitā€™)
}

and it is treating everything differently from how I feel like the detection works without a rigidbody.

I even tried it without the

.entity

part so it is just

if (check.name == 'Qiste') but it didnā€™t work

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should I be using check.other and not check.entity

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I think it is if(check.other.name === 'Qiste'){}. I am basing this off of what I use if (result.other.tags.has('enemy')){}

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