Give player points from a part?
I was having some fun making a quick game, when I came across a problem, I can't award player points to players when they touch a part. It is supposed to award them 1 Player Point. Everything else works except the Player Point part. (I tested the script without the player point part, it worked fine)
User = game.Players:GetPlayers()
bux2 = game.Lighting.BUX:Clone()
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function()
local PointsService = game:GetService("PointsService")
PointsService:AwardPoints(User.userId, 1)
game.Workspace.ROBUX.Value = game.Workspace.ROBUX.Value + 1
bux2.Parent = workspace
script.Parent:Destroy()
end)
This is a one player game so the variable won't give it to thousands of people
2 answers
The issue is that you are trying to assign player points to an array of players.
Using :GetPlayers() only gets a list of the players, but not a specific player.
Rather, you can attempt to get the player via the brick that is touched by using the GetPlayerFromCharacter method.
local User = nil;
local bux2 = game.Lighting["BUX"]:Clone()
local PointsService = game:GetService("PointsService")
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
workspace["ROBUX"]Value = workspace["ROBUX"].Value + 1
PointsService:AwardPoints(plr.userId,1)
bux2.Parent = workspace
script.Parent:Destroy()
end
end)
Explanation
When something fires the 'Touched' event, you can bind a variable that is basically the object that 'Touched' the referenced part.
In this case, we called it 'hit'
Roblox has a built-in method called GetPlayerFromCharacter which allows you to reference the Player if you can find the Character of it in Workspace.
Once we referenced the player properly, we awarded him/her.
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