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What is vCharacter and waitforChild(Parent, instance)?
Another Question :D I have someone who is VERY generous and told me to get this Free Model and look at the scripts, and I did, and I came across two things, 'Vcharacter' which made no sense, the Parent of the script, which is the Tool itself, is not represented in that matter in the script, take a look
1 | local vCharacter = script.Parent |
2 | local vTorso = waitForChild(vCharacter, "Torso") |
3 | local vHumanoid = waitForChild(vCharacter, "Humanoid") |
I do, know what 'WaitForChild' is. And also this,
1 | local function waitForChild(parent, instance) |
2 | while parent:FindFirstChild(instance) == nil do |
3 | wait() |
4 | end |
5 | return parent[instance] |
6 | end |
What is this? >:l
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You should maybe learn to script... You realize that there isn't "one way" to do this, and the name is as much an authorial choice as "red" vs "scarlet"? `vCharacter` is plainly `script.Parent`. BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y
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That's what I'm trying to do XD offbeatpizzalives123 105 — 10y
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I don't remember anything about the vCharacter, vTorso, or vHumanoid, but WaitForChild() is a method that literally waits for a child. Say, if there's something that is inserted into a character like a tool, you could use it like such:
1 | tool = Character:WaitForChild("Gun") |
If there was a gun that you had to make sure was there for your script, you could use this instead of:
1 | tool = Character.Gun |
To guarantee your script won't error.
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Oh I know that, But what REALLY confuses me is 'vCharacter, vHumanoid, vTorso' the usage of Parent, Instance >:l offbeatpizzalives123 105 — 10y
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They are just passing parameters. It's waiting for a "Torso" in the `vCharacter` model and a "Humanoid" in the `vCharacter` model. BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y
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Oh. Mkay then :D offbeatpizzalives123 105 — 10y