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.
01 | for i, coin in pairs(AvailableCoinSpawnPoints) do |
02 | if coin then |
03 | currentRandomCoinNum = math.random(1, #AvailableCoinSpawnPoints) |
04 | positionCoin = AvailableCoinSpawnPoints[currentRandomCoinNum] |
05 | MyCoinTmp = ServerStorage.Coin |
06 | MyCoin = MyCoinTmp:Clone() |
07 | MyCoin.Parent = workspace |
08 | MyCoin.CFrame = positionCoin.CFrame |
09 | table.remove(AvailableCoinSpawnPoints,currentRandomCoinNum) |
10 | end |
11 | 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:
1 | local CoinsFolder = ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Coins") |
The parent for filling up the folder is like this:
1 | 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:
1 | for i,v in pairs(CoinsFolder:GetChildren()) do |
2 | v:Destroy() |
3 | print("Coin DESTROYED: "..i) |
4 | end |
5 |
6 | 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.