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How to make vehicle autodespawn after some time if nobody is using it? (closed)

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kazeks123 195
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

My target was to create a script that destroys the vehicle after like 20 seconds if nobody is sitting in the vehicle seat. This is what i came up with:

while true do
    wait(20)      -- after 20s check if vehicle is occupied or not
    local seat = script.Parent.VehicleSeat
    local occupied = false    -- set occupied to false to erase before checked positive outcome
    if seat:FindFirstChild("SeatWeld") then      -- check if vehicle is occupied by detecting vehicleseats seatweld; if positive, then mark as occupied
        occupied = true
    end
    if occupied == false then
        script.Parent:Destroy()      -- destroy the vehicle if not marked as occupied
    end
end

Basically if vehicle is not occupied it doesn't despawn after 20 seconds. The script is inside the vehicle (vehicle parts group). Could it be because the script contains another infinite loop above this current infinite loop? Thank you for any help and excuse me for any mistakes in spelling, grammar etc. - english is not my valid language.

Edit:

I found a working way of doing it! TYVM Omarstein! All I did is just modified a bit your code and created a new script inside the VehicleSeat.

local seat = script.Parent
local vehicle = seat.Parent

while true do  -- infinite loop instead of a function since i want it to constantly check the seat
    wait(10)  -- changed 20s to 10s (just changed my mind about the check rate)
    if not seat.Occupant then
        vehicle:Destroy()
    end
end

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Answered by
Omarstein 100
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

A VehicleSeat already has the property "Occupant", so this is how I'd go about doing it:

local car = script.Parent 
local seat = script.Parent.VehicleSeat
-- change the car and seat variables if they are different in your case.

seat.Changed:connect(function()
    if not seat.Occupant then
        wait(20)
        car:Destroy()
    end
end)
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Your code worked! Just changed some things to better suit my needs (See edit above). TYVM! kazeks123 195 — 8y
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No problem! :) Mind accepting my answer by clicking the tick? Omarstein 100 — 8y
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Answered by
sammiya1 134
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

try this its simple

script.Parent.ChildRemoved:connect(function() --this is a trigger which is essentially checking to see if you jump from the seat--
        wait(20) --this line tells the code to wait twenty second
        script.Parent.Parent:remove() --this line deletes the car based on model location--
    end)

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It won't do for me since it will only work after you get out of the vehicle, but I had in mind that vehicle would be removed even when it's just spawned in, but isn't used. kazeks123 195 — 8y
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By the way if another player would get in the vehicle it would despawn anyway because after waiting 20s it wouldn't check if the vehicle wasn't occupied again and would just remove it. So maybe what about a method for checking if vehicle is used or not. kazeks123 195 — 8y
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Answered by
Versimn 20
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

you need to make 2 scripts, each in the seat of the car:

local seat=script.Parent
local occupant=true
local trigger=seat:WaitForChild'Occupant'
local cancel=trigger:WaitForChild'Cancel'
while true do
    if seat.Occupant and occupant==false then
        occupant=true
        cancel.Value=true
    elseif not seat.Occupant and occupant==true then
        occupant=false
        trigger:Fire(20)--chnage 20 to the amount of time you want to wait until removal
    end
    wait()
end

and

local seat=script.Parent
local car=seat.Parent--change the location of car to match your car
local trigger=Instance.new('BindableEvent',seat)
local cancel=Instance.new('BoolValue',trigger)
trigger.Event:connect(function(countdown)
    for i=1,countdown do
        wait(1)
        if cancel.Value==true then
            cancel.Value=false
            return
        end
    end
    car:Destroy()
end)
trigger.Name='Occupant'
cancel.Name='Cancel'

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