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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:
01 | function Equipped(Mouse) |
02 | Handle.Anchored = false |
03 | Character = Tool.Parent |
04 | Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") |
05 | Torso = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") |
06 | Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character) |
07 |
08 | Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool"):Destroy() |
09 | --This line is the important one^^^ |
10 | 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 — 5y
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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 — 5y
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01 | function Equipped(Mouse) |
02 | Handle.Anchored = false |
03 | local Character = Tool.Parent |
04 | local Children = Character:GetChildren() |
05 | local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") |
06 | local Torso = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") |
07 | local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character) |
08 |
09 | for i,v in paris(Children) do |
10 | If v.ClassName == "Tool" then |
11 | If v.Name ~= "Tool.Name" then |
12 | v:Destroy() |
13 | end |
14 | end |
15 | end |
16 | 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)