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.
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
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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. .
I haven't attempted it, I have no clue on what functions I would use to do this.
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.