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Destroying previous tool on equip?
This feels like it should be so easy but I can't figure it out. When the player picks up a new tool, I want their currently equipped tool to be destroyed. I tried this:
function Equipped(Mouse)
Handle.Anchored = false
Character = Tool.Parent
Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
Torso = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character)
Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool"):Destroy()
--This line is the important one^^^
end
but it tries to destroy the tool that is being equipped - the parent of the script. I could probably do a longer system with ChildAdded and classname == "Tool" but I feel like this should be an easy thing to do. Any thoughts?
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When you find the first child of an object, it will show the longest existing one. Maybe try renaming the new tool for a second, making an if statement regarding the name, and then changing the name back? KDarren12 705 — 4y
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Whoops, I forgot about this question. I decided to do it the basic way with a system that destroys the parent when a new tool is equipped. Thanks for the help everyone! tygerupercut3 68 — 4y
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function Equipped(Mouse)
Handle.Anchored = false
local Character = Tool.Parent
local Children = Character:GetChildren()
local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
local Torso = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character)
for i,v in paris(Children) do
If v.ClassName == "Tool" then
If v.Name ~= "Tool.Name" then
v:Destroy()
end
end
end
end
What this does is Looks for all tools located in the character and deletes any that have a different name than the one equipped.
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It's as simple as logging the last equipped tool, for example
local previoustool
tool.Equipped:connect(function() if previoustool then previoustool:Remove() end previoustool=tool end)