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I made a NPC, if he dies player who killed him will be rewarded, how do i find the player?

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LightModed 81
8 years ago

So I made an NPC, so when he dies he is supposed to reward the player who killed him 50 cash, but the thing is, how do you find the player?

Target = script.Parent.Value 
Me = script.Parent.Parent
RS = script.Parent["Right Shoulder"]
Safe = {"ComputerComplexity"}
script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 10
function Follow(Part)
    if Part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
        Target.Value = Part.Parent.Name
        for i = 1, 20 do
            Me.Humanoid:MoveTo(Part.Parent.Torso.Position, Part.Parent.Torso)

            wait(0.025)
        end
    end
end

function Punch(Hit)
    for i = 1, 10 do

    end
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(Follow)
script.Parent.Touched:connect(Punch)

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Answered by
ozzyDrive 670 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

The way ROBLOX default weapons and linked leaderboard handle this is inserting a tag (an ObjectValue) into the humanoid they damage, giving its value the player object and whenever any of the humanoids' died event fires it reads the tag's value (if there's one) & awards the player.

However I and probably many others nowadays do it by just checking if the health of a humanoid getting damaged goes under 0 and reward the client which told server to fire a projectile to this direction or something similar.

It's not handled through scripts inside the NPC (until you do it the ROBLOX style, though it also of course requires inserting the tag from seperate script), but rather from the scripts doing the damage.

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Answered by
TheDeadlyPanther 2460 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
8 years ago

To add on to OzzyFin's answer:

Inside the script that kills the NPC (from the player):

function onDamage(humanoidYouDamaged)
    local new = Instance.new("ObjectValue",humanoidYouDamaged)
    new.Name = "creator"
    new.Value = thePlayerThisScriptWorksFor
    game.Debris:AddItem(new,1) -- deletes this object after 1 second
end

-- fire this function whenever you damage an NPC, 'onDamage(humanoidObject)'

Add this code on Line 16 of your script:

local human = Me.Humanoid
local statName = "Cash" -- name of the stat

human.Died:connect(function()
    local tag = human:FindFirstChild("creator")
    if tag then
        local stats = tag.Value:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
        if stats and pcall(stats["StatName"].Value = stats["StatName"].Value) == true then
            stats["StatName"].Value = stats["StatName"].Value + 50
        end
    end
end)

The pcall basically checks to see if StatName exists. The Died event is when a humanoid dies, and the rest I believe you understand.

Hope I helped :)

~TDP

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