How Can I Make it So That This Sword Fighting Script Selects 2 Random Fighters to Fight?
This simple script I made selects two players from the Players folder and just sends them to a battle script in a module script. But, how can I make it so that the players selected are always random instead of just the first two? This is my script so far.
while wait(10) do
getPlayers = game.Players:GetChildren()
local m = require(game.Workspace.Events) --Getting the Module Script
p1 = getPlayers[1] --HOW CAN I MAKE IT SO THAT THE PLAYERS SELECTED ARE RANDOM? (The question I'm trying to ask)
p2 = getPlayers[2]
battle = m.Battle(p1, p2) --Battle will either return 1, 2, or 3 (1 = p1 won, 2 = p2 won, 3 = max time reached)
if battle == 1 then
print(p1.. " has won!")
elseif battle == 2 then
print(p2.. " has won!")
else
print("maximum duel time reached")
end
end
1 answer
The table of players is a simple list of things, so you don't have to think of it specially. You know that you can get a certain player in the table by indexing with a certain number, ie getPlayers[2]. All you have to do is make that index a random number with a maximum of the number of players. This is easy by just doing math.random(#getPlayers). # tells you the length of the table.
So, getPlayers[math.random(#getPlayers)] will work for you.
Additionally, you also want to remove a selected player from the table so you get different players. It's barely more complicated.
local index index = math.random(#getPlayers) p1 = getPlayers[index] table.remove(getPlayers,index) index = math.random(#getPlayers) p2 = getPlayers[index] table.remove(getPlayers,index) getPlayers = game.Players:GetPlayers() --do this if you want the original table again