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How would you find the current equipped tool?
I need to get to whatever tool the player has equipped currently. I know that when a player equips a tool, it goes to the character. So how would I get to that tool?
I have thought of trying to find the first child that is a tool. I don't know how to do this yet and I don't know if it is very efficient as it would break when another tool is added.
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You should post your attempt. It helps not only us, but yourself too. It's okay to ask for help. If you have a question on how to do something and you have an attempt, post it. . User#19524 175 — 5y
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I haven't attempted it, I have no clue on what functions I would use to do this. Scaii_0 145 — 5y
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Are you looking for a list of tools the player has equipped? If that's the case then you'd want to start by creating a simple while loop combined with in pairs that constantly searches for tools inside the player's character, then you want to use table.insert to add the tool into a table. Then finally using a for loop to print the contents of the table. KardashevScale 110 — 5y
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Easiest way it to find out what tool equipped is to use the event called Activated. Assuming this is in a localscript and you want all tools to be checked:
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
if #plr.Backpack:GetChildren() > 0 then -- Checks if there is any tools.
for i, v in pairs(plr.Backpack:GetChildren()) do -- Iterate through the tools.
if v:IsA("Tool") then -- Checks if the child is a tool.
v.Activated:connect(function() -- Checks if it's equipped.
-- code here
end)
end
end
end
or if you want to find out just for one tool:
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
if #plr.Backpack:GetChildren() > 0 then -- Checks if there is any tool.
plr.Backpack["toolnamehere"].Activated:connect(function()
-- code here
end)
end