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Accurate Workspace Coin Counter Problems, anyone can help?

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UnderWorldOnline 59
3 years ago

I have coins that spawn randomly into the map. The coins have a script inside them that automatically despawns them after a random amount of time.

I have a separate script that is attempting to accurately keep track of the amount of coins in workspace through all the spawning and despawning and I'm at a loss at how to do this. The script is supposed to take this amount and put it into a number value.

I know what I have doesn't work but I'm not experienced in this kind of thing so any help would be appreciated. It does count coins but the numbers are way off.

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01coinsadded = 0
02coinsremoved = 0
03function AddCoinAmt() wait()
04for _,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
05    if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "CoinPart" then
06            coinsadded = coinsadded + 1
07        end
08    end
09    local coinvalue = script:FindFirstChild('CoinVal')
10    if coinvalue then coinvalue.Value = coinsadded - coinsremoved
11        end
12end
13 
14function SubtractCoinAmt() wait()
15    for _,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
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Answered by
sata5pa3da 286 Moderation Voter
3 years ago

If you want to just store the amount of coins currently in the workspace, you can try this:

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01local coins = 0
02 
03game.Workspace.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
04    if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
05        coins += 1
06    end
07 
08end)
09 
10 
11game.Workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
12    if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
13        coins -= 1
14    end
15end)

If you want to be able to access the amount of coins from anywhere, you can add an IntValue to replicated storage and name it whatever you like. I'll name it "coins" for this demonstration

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01local coins = game.ReplicatedStorage.coins
02 
03game.Workspace.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
04    if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
05        coins.Value += 1
06    end
07 
08end)
09 
10 
11game.Workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
12    if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
13        coins.Value -= 1
14    end
15end)
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I'm curious why you are using += and -= instead of just + or -? Either way this is still helpful so thank you very much UnderWorldOnline 59 — 3y
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I'm curious why you are using += and -= instead of just + or -? Either way this is still helpful so thank you very much UnderWorldOnline 59 — 3y
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its a shortcut for saying variable = variable - 1 or variable = variable + 1 sata5pa3da 286 — 3y
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