teleport people that are in a certain table?
okay, so i made this code so that i can teleport people to a competition, but only people who's names are in the table "competitors". This code doesn't seem to work. Can i get any help? Much appreciated :)
local spawns = chosencompetitionClone.Spawns:GetChildren()
for i,v in pairs(competitors) do
name = table.concat(v)
check = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(name)
if check then
check:MoveTo(spawns[i].Position)
end
end
1 answer
Couple of errors, the first error is that you are trying to find the character's model using their name, that is not a really efficient way, because sometimes the name can change, so to prevent it from glitching we use this:
local spawns = chosencompetitionClone.Spawns:GetChildren()
for i,v in pairs(competitors) do
if v.Character then -- check if the player's model exists
v.Character:MoveTo(spawns[math.random(1, #spawns)].Position)
end
end
The second error is that you were trying to use spawns[i].Position while you were iterating through competitors, meaning that "i" would respond to the number of the current competitor, and not the spawn brick, which may error if you have a smaller amount of spawn bricks than players in the table because it would not be able to find it.
So the fifth line generates a random number between the number one and the number of spawn bricks there are in the "Spawns" model.
Also I think you should read more about table.concat because you shouldn't have had it there: table.concat is used to connect to strings in a table together to make one sentence or word, depending on what you have as the separating character in the second parameter, here you can learn more:
http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Function_dump/Table_manipulation#table.concat
Hope that helped, if you have any questions I will be glad to answer them.