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How to check if something exists?

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So I'm trying to make a simple tycoon as practice for scripting. What I'm basically trying to do is make a tycoon button that appears only when another tycoon button is pressed and disappears. When I test this script out, both buttons appear and work fine, but I only want one of them at first, and then the other after I press on that one. The line I added to try and check to see if something exists is line 1. Thank you for the help and sorry for the mess of the script

if script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Products:findFirstChild("Conveyor") then

repeat wait() until script.Parent.Product.Value~=nil
local product=script.Parent.Product.Value:clone()
script.Parent.Product.Value:remove()
local price=script.Parent.Price.Value

script.Parent.Name=script.Parent.ProductName.Value.." - "..price
if price==0 then
	script.Parent.Name=script.Parent.ProductName.Value.." - Free!"
end

script.Parent.Head.Touched:connect(function(hit)
	chr=hit.Parent
	if chr:findFirstChild("Humanoid") and game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(chr) then
		plr=game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(chr)
		if plr.Name==script.Parent.Parent.Parent.OwnerName.Value and plr.leaderstats.Money.Value>=price then
			plr.leaderstats.Money.Value=plr.leaderstats.Money.Value-price
			product.Parent=script.Parent.Parent.Parent
			script.Parent:remove()
		end
	end
end)
end

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--Background info
--script.Parent is the button
--script.Parent.Parent is a model of all the buttons
--script.Parent.Parent.Parent is the whole tycoon model
--script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Products is a model of all the products that the buttons buy
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AnonymousEdited

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What about using one script that handles all the buttons. Create all your buttons and have it clone and destroy the buttons you don't want to show yet.

When a button is pressed and the player has enough money the clone you created of the next button would be re-added to the model/workspace.

assuming that all your buttons are in a model and the script is in the model

local B = script.Parent.ButtonB:clone() 
	script.Parent.ButtonB:Destroy()

For example

when ButtonB is touched (This is the function)
	if the player has enough money ( your if statement)
		your code (whatever you want you code to do when the player has enough money)
		set clone B's parent to model (Now re-add button b to model)
		destroy ButtonA (remove button a from model)
	(else statement for when player doesn't have enough money)

Hope this helps.

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This sounds like it would work, but my tycoon isn't really normal and the buttons have different currencies to buy them with and sometimes they'll appear only if you complete a certain task, so it'd be much easier to insert a script into each of my buttons

Anonymous#
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Different currencies shouldn't be a problem. Just change your if statement to check the different currency and remove the different currency.

Anonymous#
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As for having buttons that are unlocked when you complete a certain task you could create a seperate model, called something like, TaskButtons, and then have the code handle all of that.

Anonymous#

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