How do I not spawn a coin on top of the already existing coins?
Hi
In my game loop I spawn coins to points added to my map.
for i, coin in pairs(AvailableCoinSpawnPoints) do
if coin then
currentRandomCoinNum = math.random(1, #AvailableCoinSpawnPoints)
positionCoin = AvailableCoinSpawnPoints[currentRandomCoinNum]
MyCoinTmp = ServerStorage.Coin
MyCoin = MyCoinTmp:Clone()
MyCoin.Parent = workspace
MyCoin.CFrame = positionCoin.CFrame
table.remove(AvailableCoinSpawnPoints,currentRandomCoinNum)
end
end
This works fine the first time my game loops. When I have a winner the game quits and enters the lobby. When the game start over again the coins are spawn inside the already existing coins. And after a few rounds there are multiple coins spinning inside each other on the spawn point. I am thinking that AvailableCoinSpawnPoints would be refreshed when the map is destroyed (before the last player is sent to the lobby)?
Anyone know how I can spawn a fresh set of coins everytime a game starts?
2 answers
You would need to destroy all existing coins at the end of a round as well as the map. If you parent them to a Coins folder instead of workspace, then at the end of a round you can just iterate over the children of that folder to remove them all.
Also, in your script you are placing a coin for every available position, so using math.random to change the order that they are placed seems redundant. Just place them in order.
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Thanks for your answer!
Now I have created a folder in my ServerStorage named Coins. When I start up the test server I can see the folder have been filled up with my coins.
I get the folder like this:
local CoinsFolder = ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Coins")
The parent for filling up the folder is like this:
MyCoin.Parent = CoinsFolder
Since I now switched over from parent workspace to folder; the coins are not showing when I enter the map in test server. You know why this is?
Let's say that the coins are showing I thought I could add something like this at the end of the game:
for i,v in pairs(CoinsFolder:GetChildren()) do
v:Destroy()
print("Coin DESTROYED: "..i)
end
ClonedMap:Destroy()
(but this does not go into effect since no coin is showing on the map at the moment)
EDIT: I moved the Coins folder to workspace and now they appear in the map again and all the coins spawn just fine with no duplications.