Would I say: Workspace.Players ?
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If I wanted to include all players in a workspace in a script, what would say?
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Oki, let's make a function that we can use in a script to remove all the players' hats.
First, you declare the function.
function RemoveHats()
end
Next, let's get all the players. To do this, we do game.Players:GetPlayers(). What this does is it returns an array of the players currently in the game. If you don't know what an array or a table is, please look it up on the wiki before you ask us.
function RemoveHats()
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
end
Now, we start up a generic for loop. Basically, what this does is it goes through all the stuff in the table/array and does something with each element in it. Again, ask the wiki first if you don't know this stuff.
function RemoveHats()
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in pairs(players) do
end
end
Now let's go through all the stuff in that guy's character model, again with a generic for loop.
function RemoveHats()
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in pairs(players) do
for _, thing in pairs(player.Character:GetChildren()) do
end
end
end
Let's see if we can find a hat or two.
function RemoveHats()
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in pairs(players) do
for _, thing in pairs(player.Character:GetChildren()) do
if thing:IsA("Hat") then
end
end
end
end
If we do, we'll destroy it.
function RemoveHats()
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in pairs(players) do
for _, thing in pairs(player.Character:GetChildren()) do
if thing:IsA("Hat") then
thing:Destroy()
end
end
end
end
And that is our final product. You can paste that in a script and then call it whenever you'd like.
In Lua, a single variable has a single object attached to it.
Thus, while you can say
who = workspace.BlueTaslem
who.Humanoid.Health = 0
There's no way[^1] to set who so that it affects all players -- there isn't one value meaning all the players together.
There is a value which is the list of all players. While the list doesn't have a humanoid (lists aren't alive), each element of the list does.
This is where we use a for loop (search for more information about them):
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in pairs( players ) do
local character = player.Character
if character and character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
-- Use the same "meat" we did before:
character.Humanoid.Health = 0
end
end
We needed a little extra machinery:
- While I can say
workspace.BlueTaslemeasily because there's only one of me, there's a lot of other non-player things in the workspace - There are only players in the
game.Playersservice... - but those are different from the models in the workspace. We get the models in the Workspace using
.Character... - but that can be
nil, - and when it's not, they don't necessarily have all of their parts (so we have to check using
:FindFirstChild
[^1]: You can, but it would be very confusing and a pain to do.
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What are you trying to accomplish by including all players?
I'm trying to remove their hats.
Touching a "part" takes off a specific hat they're wearing.