So I made a lantern model and I intend to make the player hold this lantern automatically without the player having to click on the icon in his backpack or press 1. I basically want the lantern to be a part of the player. Would a way of doing this be to disable to backpack GUI?
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How could I make a player "passively" hold an item?
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Hello, iLordy!
I made the script you want, it works perfectly!
This script don't need to disable the backpack gui =D
Code:
--Local Script--
ToolName = "Lantern" -- Change to the lantern(or tool) name
plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until plr.Character
local Equipped = nil
-- First Equip the Lantern(If is in player inventory)
if plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName) and plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName):IsA("Tool") then
plr.Character.Humanoid:EquipTool(plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName))
end
-- Equips when player isn't using any tools
plr.Backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(function(Item)
wait(.1)
if Equipped ~= nil and Equipped == Item then
if plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName) and plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName):IsA("Tool") then
wait(.1)
plr.Character.Humanoid:EquipTool(plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(ToolName))
end
end
end)
--Detects when player equipped a tool, and saves it on a var
plr.Character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(Item)
if Item:IsA("Tool") then
Equipped = Item
end
end)
Good Luck with your Games
You can disable the backpack by doing this:
local starterGui = game:GetService"StarterGui"
starterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(
Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,
false
)
To keep the tool equipped:
local plr = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local char = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(plr.Name)
while wait() do
char.Humanoid:EquipTool(plr.Backpack.Lantern)
end
There is a handy function in the Humanoid object called :EquipTool(Tool). When this function is run with a tool as the parameter, the character that the Humanoid is attached to will equip the specified tool. A way to automatically cause this behavior to happen is to place the Tool into the player's backpack, and then use the function.
Here's a script that you can put into StarterCharacterScripts, assuming the lantern name is "Lantern" and it's already in the player's backpack.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer -- Get the player.
local backpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack") -- Get the backpack.
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait() -- Get the character.
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") -- Get the Humanoid.
local tool = backpack:FindFirstChild("Lantern") -- Returns True or False.
if tool ~= true then -- If there is no tool called Lantern:
return -- Stop the script.
end
humanoid:EquipTool(tool) -- Equip the tool using the function.
I hope this helped and if so, please accept it! cya
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line 6 FindFirstChild doesn’t return bool.
I just noticed that; it actually returned a reference to an Instance. However, it can be treated as a boolean in if statements.
I may have misread the question as well...