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Can you track somebody's name in a touch function?
I understand that you can find the players name through the parameters. Like this:
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
print(hit.Parent.Name)
end)
But can you find the player's name, store it in a table (not using data store), and reference(find) it when needed?
I have this:
local PlayerTable = {}
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then -- for checking purposes
if --[[DOESN'T FIND NAME IN TABLE--]] then
table.insert(PlayerTable,hit.Parent.Name)
end
end
end)
If there are any wiki pages on this please send the links
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Ohhhhhhh, are you're trying to maybe make a debounce for specific players? I guess I'll just answer your question first:
You can store a string into a table and reference it easily like this:
local tb = {}
tb[string] = true
if tb[string] then
-- this will get ran
end
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Adding this to your script:
local PlayerTable = {}
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then -- for checking purposes
if not PlayerTable[hit.Parent.Name] then
PlayerTable[hit.Parent.Name] = true
end
end
end)
That will make it so the code will only run for players once. I think this is what you wanted.
Good Luck!
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Thank you so much! MusicalDisplay 173 — 6y