Set default value but retain value after that?
I've made some code that keeps track of how many users are alive in the game, however, it always resets the alive users to 0 whenever it loops through the code again, so if there's one person in the game and they die, instead of it saying "0 players alive", it will say "-1 players alive", since instead of starting at the number 1 (1 player), it starts at 0.
function GivePlayersValue()
local p = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for i = 1, #p do
local s = Instance.new("StringValue", p[i])
s.Name = "Playing"
end
end
local numberAlive = 0
local stringtoConcat = " PLAYER(S) ALIVE"
function GetAlivePlayers()
local count = 0 --this line is the problem, as it resets the count to 0. I just don't know any alternative
local p = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for i = 1, #p do
if p[i]:FindFirstChild("Playing") then
count = count + 1
else
count = count - 1
end
end
return count
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(GivePlayersValue)
while true do
wait(1)
local combination = tonumber(GetAlivePlayers())
for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
v.PlayerGui.PAGui.Count.Text = combination .. stringtoConcat
end
end
1 answer
You're problem is that you are trying to count the number of players "playing", but subtract from that count when you encounter a player that isn't "playing".
Think about this: If you were counting the number of apples in a fruit basket, would you subtract one apple from the count if you found an orange? No, just because there is an orange doesn't mean you have to subtract an apple you already counted.
Try changing your GetAlivePlayers function to this:
local function GetAlivePlayers()
local count = 0
for _, player in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if player:FindFirstChild("Playing") then
count = count + 1
end
end
return count
end
