Assigning Points to All Players with an OnTouched Script?
Hiya! I'm IwuvPikachu and I absolutely suck at scripting. But hey, everyone has to start somewhere... anyways, here's my question:
I'm trying to script a block so that whenever it is touched by another block, it gives a point to everyone on the server.
Here's what my feeble coding ability could come up with:
function onTouched(hit)
if hit.Name == "Part" then
local players = game.Players:GetChildren()
local stats = players:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
if stats ~= nil then
local Points = stats:findFirstChild("Points")
Points.Value = Points.Value +1
end
end
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
As you can probably tell, it doesn't work. If you could please point me toward the right method to write this, you would make my day!
I understand that this script will only work if the brick that touches it is explicitly named "Part", and that is okay. If I had to guess, I would say my problem lies in telling the script to add a point to all players on the server? But I'm not sure. Again, thank you in advance for your help!
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1 answer
The first is a simple debounce locked to the part in which you're touching. The second is a debounce attached to any player that touches the brick. If you don't want a debounce at all, you can remove it.
local players = game:GetService('Players')
local debounce = true
local debounceTime = 10
-- Every 10 seconds, we're allowed to touch the brick
local points_to_give = 1
local function giveeveryone(points)
for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
local ls = v:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
if ls then
local pointsValue = ls:findFirstChild("Points")
if pointsValue then
pointsValue.Value = pointsValue.Value + points
end
end
end
end
function onTouched(hit)
local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
-- Gets the player from the part that was touched
if player then
if debounce then
debounce = false
giveeveryone(points_to_give)
wait(debounceTime)
debounce = true
end
end
end
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
local players = game:GetService('Players')
local debounce = {}
-- A debounce is used so we don't spam the points given to the player
-- A table is used so we can use a debounce on the player
local debounceTime = 10
-- Every 10 seconds, we're allowed to get points
local points_to_give = 1
local function giveeveryone(points)
for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
local ls = v:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
if ls then
local pointsValue = ls:findFirstChild("Points")
if pointsValue then
pointsValue.Value = pointsValue.Value + points
end
end
end
end
function onTouched(hit)
local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
-- Gets the player from the part that was touched
if player then
local lastTouched = debounce[player.Name]
-- Checks to see if we have touched the brick before
if lastTouched and tick() - lastTouched > debounceTime or not lastTouched then
-- Checks when we have touched the brick last
-- Checks to see if we touched it more than debounceTime ago
-- Also runs if we haven't touched the brick before
giveeveryone(points_to_give)
debounce[player.Name] = tick()
-- reset the last time we touched the brick to now
elseif tick() - lastTouched < debounceTime then
-- Runs if we tried to touch the brick before
-- the alotted debounceTime time
-- Tells us when we can touch it again
print( string.format("You need to wait %s seconds before touching the brick again.", math.floor( debounceTime - (tick() - lastTouched) )))
-- replace %s with the time we have to wait
end
end
end
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
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