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Rewarding Players For Killing NPC's?

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dyler3 1510

10 years ago

So, recently I've been working on creating my own NPC's and all that stuff...well anyways, my question to whoever is willing to help is: How do I find the player who killed the NPC? How would I be able to do this, and find the exact player who killed the NPC so that I can award them? (I want the player to be awarded gold when the NPC is killed.)

Gold Stat: game.Players.Player.leaderstats.Gold

Heres what I have so far in the sword I made:

01Plr=game.Players.LocalPlayer
02Mouse=Plr:GetMouse()
03Swinging=false
04ReadyToSwing=true
05SwingTime=.75
06 
07---Functions---
08function Swing()
09    Swinging=true
10    ReadyToSwing=false
11    script.Parent.Parent.GripForward=Vector3.new(1,0,0)
12    script.Parent.Parent.GripPos=Vector3.new(0,0,-1)
13    script.Parent.Parent.GripRight=Vector3.new(0,1,0)
14    script.Parent.Parent.GripUp=Vector3.new(0,0,0)
15    wait(SwingTime)
16    script.Parent.Parent.GripForward=Vector3.new(1,0,0)
17    script.Parent.Parent.GripPos=Vector3.new(0,0,-1.5)
18    script.Parent.Parent.GripRight=Vector3.new(0,-1,0)
19    script.Parent.Parent.GripUp=Vector3.new(0,0,1)
20    Swinging=false
21    wait(1)
22    ReadyToSwing=true
23end
24 
25script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(Part)
26    if Part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and Swinging==true then
27        Plr=Part.Parent
28        PlrName=Plr.Name
29        if not game.Players:FindFirstChild(PlrName) or game.Players:FindFirstChild(PlrName).Character~=Plr then
30            Plr.Humanoid:TakeDamage(math.random(5,8)/2) 
31        end
32    end        
33end)
34 
35script.Parent.Parent.Equipped:connect(function()
36    Mouse.Button1Down:connect(function()
37        if Swinging==false and ReadyToSwing==true then
38            Swing()
39        end
40    end)
41end)
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If anyone could possibly help me, thank you in advance.

(If any more information is needed, please leave a comment.)

1 answer

Answered by

yumtaste 476

10 years ago

The way I do this is by having an ObjectValue called "attacker" with the value of the player be inserted into the NPC's Humanoid. Then, in the NPC, there's an event that listens for .Died(), and it will use the "attacker" ObjectValue to find the player's leaderstats, and then add gold. Maybe a little something like this? (Note: this doesn't have to be a new script. It can be added into the function on line 25)

01--in the object that will damage the NPC upon hitting it
02 
03script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
04if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
05local humanoid = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
06local attacker = Instance.new("ObjectValue", humanoid)
07attacker.Name = "attacker"
08attacker.Value = Plr
09attacker.Parent = humanoid
10Debris:AddItem(attacker, 0.5) --you can change this part, maybe add something to delete everything called "attacker" in humanoid before inserting it, this part just makes it automatically remove itself after 0.5 seconds.
11end
12end
13end)

1--in NPC's Humanoid
2 
3script.Parent.Died:connect(function()
4local attacker = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("attacker")
5if attacker then
6attacker.Value.leaderstats.Gold.Value = attacker.Value.leaderstats.Gold.Value
7end
8end)

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Yes, this works :D. Thanks for the response. Thumbs up :P dyler3 1510 — 10y

Thanks. More people should ask questions like you do. Your question was very thorough and easy to read, and allowed me to give you an answer quickly and easily. yumtaste 476 — 10y

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