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COMMUNITY QUESTION

Paintball gun kills players on the same team?

I was working on a paintball game until i found out that the gun kills people on the same team which is not what i want

ball = script.Parent
damage = 100

function onTouched(hit)
	local humanoid = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local playername = humanoid.Parent.Name
	local playerteam = game.Players['playername'].Team.Team
	
		
	if hit:getMass() < 1.2 * 200 then
		
	end
	-- make a splat
	for i=1,3 do
		local s = Instance.new("Part")
		s.Shape = 1 -- block
		s.formFactor = 2 -- plate
		s.Size = Vector3.new(1,.4,1)
		s.BrickColor = ball.BrickColor
		local v = Vector3.new(math.random(-1,1), math.random(0,1), math.random(-1,1))
		s.Velocity = 15 * v
		s.CFrame = CFrame.new(ball.Position + v, v)
		ball.BrickCleanup:clone().Parent = s
		s.BrickCleanup.Disabled = false
		s.Parent = game.Workspace
		--game.Debris:AddItem(s, 5)
		
	end
	

	if humanoid ~= nil and playerteam == 'Red' then
		tagHumanoid(humanoid)
		humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
		wait(2)
		untagHumanoid(humanoid)
	end

	connection:Disconnect()
	ball.Parent = nil
end

function tagHumanoid(humanoid)
	-- todo: make tag expire
	local tag = ball:findFirstChild("creator")
	if tag ~= nil then
		local new_tag = tag:clone()
		new_tag.Parent = humanoid
	end
end


function untagHumanoid(humanoid)
	if humanoid ~= nil then
		local tag = humanoid:findFirstChild("creator")
		if tag ~= nil then
			tag.Parent = nil
		end
	end
end

connection = ball.Touched:connect(onTouched)

wait(8)
ball.Parent = nil

2 answers

You might wanna use the Teams service. Here's how:

local Teams = game:GetService("Teams")

local red = Teams.Red

function onTouched(hit)
    local humanoid = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
    local playername = humanoid.Parent.Name
    local playerteam = game.Players['playername'].Team

if humanoid ~= nil and playerteam == red then
    tagHumanoid(humanoid)
    humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
    wait(2)
    untagHumanoid(humanoid)
end

Hope this helps!

4 comments

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it gives this error 15:55:06.339 Workspace.Paintball.Paintball:9: attempt to index nil with 'Parent' - Server - Paintball:9 15:55:06.339 Stack Begin - Studio 15:55:06.339 Script 'Workspace.Paintball.Paintball', Line 9 - function onTouched - Studio - Paintball:9 15:55:06.339 Stack End - Studio

0

Maybe because you typed findFIrstChild instead of FindFirstChild at Line 06 on the code above.

0

that's just a deprecated from of it and now it doesn't splat on hit anymore

0

also i added the whole script

[playername]*  

not

['playername']
local playerteam = game.Players[playername].Team.Team

4 comments

0

it says Workspace.Paintball.Paintball:6: attempt to index nil with 'Parent'

0

local humanoid = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid");if not humanoid then return end;

0

it works but now it doesn't do damage or splat when it hits the ground

0

hello?

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