Changing the status/textlabel?
Hi, I was making this script where when you touched this part it would damage you for 5 seconds and it would change the text on the textlabel to say status: poison. But my script wont change the text. Can you help?
Textlabel script:
local plr = Game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until plr
local status = Instance.new("StringValue",plr)
status.Name = "status-"..plr.UserId
repeat wait() until plr:WaitForChild("status")
while true do
wait()
script.Parent.Text = "Effects: "..plr.status.Value
end
Brick touched script:
local no = false
local plr = Game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until plr
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
if not no then
no = true
local humanoid = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if (humanoid ~= nil) then
plr.status.Value = "Poison"
for time = 5,0,-1 do
humanoid.Health = humanoid.Health - 5
wait(1)
end
wait(2)
no = false
end
end
end)
Can you try to help me with my script?
2 answers
1.
Don't bother with the status.Name = "bleh-" .. stuffhere, just do "status" (in your first script).
2.
This is all the second script:
local no = false
local plr = Game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until plr.Character
local char = plr.Character
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
if no == false then
no = true
local humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
plr.status.Value = "Poison"
local num = 5
while num > 0 do -- alternative, and better way for your script to take away health
humanoid.Health = humanoid.Health - 5
num = num - 1
wait(1)
end
wait(2)
no = false
end
end)
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Hope you don't mind if I re-write your scripts but here you go:
TextLable LocalScript:
local plr = Game.Players.LocalPlayer
status=plr:WaitForChild("status")
status.Changed:connnect(function()
script.Parent.Text = "Effects: "..plr.status.Value
end)
Extra Player Added Script:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
stat=Instance.new("StringValue", player)
stat.Name="status"
end)
BrickTouched Script:
derp=false
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(part)
if derp==false then
hum=part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if hum then
plr=game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
if plr then
derp=true
status=plr:FindFirstChld("status")
if status then
status.Value="Poisoned"
else
print("Status not found, creating one")
status=Instance.new("StringValue", plr)
status.Name="status"
status.Value="Poisoned"
end
for time = 5,0,-1 do
hum.Health = hum.Health - 5
wait(1)
end
wait(2)
derp=false
end
end
end)
That should do it, you made a good attempt but there were several things wrong and some not needed parts. You can't access a LocalPlayer from a regular script and there is no point on putting a .Touched local script in a brick that can be touched by anyone. I made a PlayerAdded script because server scripts can't mess with things that are made by clients if you have FilteringEnabled. Just in case that didn't work, the .Touched event would put a status in the player if one was not found. A .Changed even is more efficient in this situation as it runs if a property has changed, not in a while loop which takes up processing power. A :WaitForChild() function will wait for a child, it doesn't need to have a repeat wait() until. I hope this helped.
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