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Accurate Workspace Coin Counter Problems, anyone can help?

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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.

coinsadded = 0
coinsremoved = 0
function AddCoinAmt() wait()
for _,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
	if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "CoinPart" then
			coinsadded = coinsadded + 1
		end
	end
	local coinvalue = script:FindFirstChild('CoinVal')
	if coinvalue then coinvalue.Value = coinsadded - coinsremoved
		end
end

function SubtractCoinAmt() wait()
	for _,v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("Part") and v.Name == "CoinPart" then
			coinsremoved = coinsremoved + 1
		end
	end
	local coinvalue = script:FindFirstChild('CoinVal')
	if coinvalue then coinvalue.Value = coinsadded - coinsremoved
	end
end

workspace.ChildAdded:connect(AddCoinAmt)
workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(SubtractCoinAmt)
Anonymous

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

local coins = 0

game.Workspace.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
		coins += 1
	end

end)


game.Workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
		coins -= 1
	end
end)

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 

local coins = game.ReplicatedStorage.coins

game.Workspace.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
		coins.Value += 1
	end

end)


game.Workspace.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Part") and child.Name == "CoinPart" then
		coins.Value -= 1
	end
end)
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3 comments

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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

Anonymous#
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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

Anonymous#
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its a shortcut for saying variable = variable - 1 or variable = variable + 1

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