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Tools breaking when moved from ReplicatedStorage to StarterGear?

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tawk1215 47
6 years ago

I made this script that gives a player an item when bought with in-game currency. The way it works is when the player has enough coins and clicks the "Buy" button the game clones a tool from ReplicatedStorage to the players StarterGear, backpack.

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderboard = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local button = script.Parent
local price = button:WaitForChild("Price")
local item = button:WaitForChild("ItemName")
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

button.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
    if leaderboard.Coins.Value >= price.Value then
        leaderboard.Coins.Value = leaderboard.Coins.Value - price.Value
        local item = rs:WaitForChild(item.Value)
        item:Clone().Parent = player.StarterGear
        item:Clone().Parent = player.Backpack
    end
end)

while wait() do
    button.image = item.Value.." - "..price.Value
end

For some reason when the tool is moved the animations in the tool stop working. Here is the Animations script:

local function WaitForChild(parent, childName)
    while not parent:FindFirstChild(childName) do parent.ChildAdded:wait() end
    return parent[childName]
end

local Tool = script.Parent

local Animations = {}
local MyHumanoid
local MyCharacter


local function PlayAnimation(animationName)
    if Animations[animationName] then
        Animations[animationName]:Play()
    end
end

local function StopAnimation(animationName)
    if Animations[animationName] then
        Animations[animationName]:Stop()
    end
end


function OnEquipped(mouse)
    MyCharacter = Tool.Parent
    MyHumanoid = WaitForChild(MyCharacter, 'Humanoid')
    if MyHumanoid then
        Animations['EquipAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'EquipAnim5'))
        Animations['IdleAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'IdleAnim3'))
        Animations['OverheadAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'OverheadAnim2'))
        Animations['SlashAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'SlashAnim2'))
        Animations['ThrustAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'ThrustAnim2'))
        Animations['UnequipAnim'] = MyHumanoid:LoadAnimation(WaitForChild(Tool, 'UnequipAnim2'))
    end
    PlayAnimation('EquipAnim')
    PlayAnimation('IdleAnim')
end

function OnUnequipped()
    for animName, _ in pairs(Animations) do
        StopAnimation(animName)
    end
end

Tool.Equipped:connect(OnEquipped)
Tool.Unequipped:connect(OnUnequipped)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlaySlash').Changed:connect(
    function (value)
            PlayAnimation('SlashAnim')
    end)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlayThrust').Changed:connect(
    function (value)
            PlayAnimation('ThrustAnim')
    end)

WaitForChild(Tool, 'PlayOverhead').Changed:connect(
    function (value)
            PlayAnimation('OverheadAnim')
    end)

If anyone knows why the animations break when the tool is moved to StarterGear it will help me a ton. Thanks!

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(Also just wanted to add. When I test it out in Studio it works but not in game. And yes the Animations Script and the Purchase Script are Local) tawk1215 47 — 6y
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maybe try refreshing the script, by setting the Disabled to true then wait() to false User#23365 30 — 6y
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and also why it doesn't work online is probably, because of FE, which has a bunch of remote events and stuff User#23365 30 — 6y
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and u cant turn it off User#23365 30 — 6y

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User#20279 0
6 years ago
Edited 6 years ago

I think it’s not working because you’re cloning the tool locally. If you clone locally, the whole tool breaks, and other players can’t see you holding the tool. Instead, you should use a remote event and clone the tool in a server (normal) script.

Here is what you’d do :

Local script

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local leaderboard = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local button = script.Parent
local price = button:WaitForChild("Price")
local item = button:WaitForChild("ItemName")
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteevent = rs:WaitForChild('RemoteEvent') -- Add a remote event into ReplicatedStorage

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    if leaderboard.Coins.Value >= price.Value then
        leaderboard.Coins.Value = leaderboard.Coins.Value - price.Value
        local item = rs:WaitForChild(item.Value)
        remoteevent:FireServer(item)
    end
end)

while wait() do
    button.Image = item.Value.." - "..price.Value
end

Server script in ServerScriptService

local RS = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')
local RemoteEvent = RS:WaitForChild('RemoteEvent')

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, item)
    item:Clone().Parent = plr.Backpack
    item:Clone().Parent = plr.StarterGear
end)

Hope this helped!

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It works! It also helped me out a ton! Thank you so much! tawk1215 47 — 6y
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