How does one set an arm on fire?
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(Key)
Key = Key:lower()
if Key == "z" then
print ("Test")
local fire = Instance.new('Fire')
end
end)
I'm new to scripting and was wondering how to put the fire onto the player's left arm. What I am trying to do is make it so if the player has pressed the "z" key, their left arm will set on fire. The script above is what I have so far. Whenever I try and do it, the script breaks and in the output it says "Player is not a valid member of humanoid".
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I don't think that the error you are getting is part of the script above as you do not access the humanoid in the characters model.
We now have a whole service to manage the users input called UserInputService which is why KeyDown and KeyUp deprecated so please do not use them.
As you have posted a script I will give an example, this also uses a remote event as you should have FilteringEnabled:-
Server script:-
-- add the event (You do not need to create this in a script, you can manually add it)
local remoteFire = Instance.new('RemoteEvent', game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')) -- create a remote event object and adds it to the rep storage so both the server and client can see it
remoteFire.Name = 'remoteFire'
remoteFire.OnServerEvent:connect(function(plr, fire) -- the 1st arg is passed automatically followed by all of the other args send by the client
local char = plr.Character -- the character is the model in the workspace this could be nil
if char then -- check for a nil character
-- we could also check that the player does not have the fire else we could be adding more? you can look into this
-- fire is a boolean passed to determine if we add or delete the fire
if fire then
-- add fire
if char['Left Arm'] then
local fire = Instance.new('Fire', char['Left Arm'])
-- set other things for the fire ect
print('Fire added')
else
print('Character model does not have a left arm')
end
else
-- remove fire, this should be simple to add
end
else
print('Character model is nil')
end
end)
This is a local script in StarterPlayerScripts:-
local usrInpServ = game:GetService('UserInputService') -- this can only be used in a local script the server does not have any access to the clients inputs
local remoteFire = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage'):WaitForChild('remoteFire') -- the name of the event we created on the server side
local deb = true
usrInpServ.InputBegan:connect(function(inputObj, gameProcEvent)
if deb then -- this will help with stopping events are we do not want to spam the remote
-- it is good practice to use "Enums" instead of values or ints
if inputObj.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then -- only run with keyboard
if inputObj.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Z then
deb = false -- we now can process so stop other requests
remoteFire:FireServer(true) -- we do not pass the player as the server knows what player fired the event
-- i dont know how you want to handle multiple requests
-- atm this will only run once
-- we could add a cool down
wait(10)
deb = true
end
end
end
end)
I hope this helps, please comment if you do not understand how/why this script works.
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local rightArm = Player.Character["Right Arm"]
local leftArm = Player.Character["Left Arm"]
local fire = Instance.new("Fire")
fire.Parent = rightArm
fire.Parent = leftArm
This will put the fire in the arm :)