I'm currently making a swordfight game as a newbie to scripting in Roblox, with the help of AlvinBlox's videos.
In the script attached, it's supposed to update the Status GUI (The textlabel on top of the screen) to say a person killed another person immediately, when someone dies.
But instead, the Status GUI only updates when the dead person respawns.
Here is a link to a screenshot I took of the output window when the error occurs (afaik there are no other errors): https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/484292855880351744/672380173332512769/unknown.png?width=1192&height=671
The script is called "Stats", by the way.
Here's the script:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player
local bucks = Instance.new("IntValue")
bucks.Name = "Bucks"
bucks.Value = 0
bucks.Parent = leaderstats
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function(character)
--Whenever somebody dies, this event will run
if character.Humanoid and character.Humanoid:FindFirstChild("creator") then
game.ReplicatedStorage.Status.Value = tostring(character.Humanoid.creator.Value).." KILLED "..player.Name
end
if character:FindFirstChild("GameTag") then
character.GameTag:Destroy()
end
player:LoadCharacter()
end)
end)
end)
The creator tag you see in line 17 and so on is from the official ROBLOX sword model, and creator.Value for every player A is the name of the player who killed A.
If the MainScript is useful, here it is as well:
-- Definition of variables
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local MapsFolder = ServerStorage:WaitForChild("Maps")
local Status = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Status")
local GameLength = 90 -- In seconds
local reward = 10 -- Number of bucks rewarded to each winner
-- Game Looping
while true do
Status.Value = "Waiting for enough players to join"
repeat wait(1) until game.Players.NumPlayers >= 2
Status.Value = "Intermission, we now have enough players in the game"
wait(10)
local players = {}
--Adding players into the players table
for i, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if player then
table.insert(players,player)
end
end
wait(2)
------------------------------------
--Choosing a random map
local AvailableMaps = MapsFolder:GetChildren()
local ChosenMap = AvailableMaps[math.random(1,#AvailableMaps)]
Status.Value = "The "..ChosenMap.Name.." Map was Chosen!"
--Putting the chosen map into the workspace
local ClonedMap = ChosenMap:Clone()
ClonedMap.Parent = workspace
--Teleporting players to chosen map
local SpawnPoints = ClonedMap:FindFirstChild("SpawnPoints")
if not SpawnPoints then
print("Spawnpoints not found!")
end
local AvailableSpawnPoints = SpawnPoints:GetChildren()
for i, player in pairs(players) do
if player then
character = player.Character
if character then
--Teleporting them
character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = AvailableSpawnPoints[1].CFrame
table.remove(AvailableSpawnPoints,1)
--Giving them a sword
local Sword = ServerStorage.Sword:Clone()
Sword.Parent = player.Backpack
local GameTag = Instance.new("BoolValue")
GameTag.Name = "GameTag"
GameTag.Parent = player.Character
else
--If there's no character
if not player then
table.remove(players,i)
end
end
end
end
Status.Value = "Get Ready to Play!"
wait(2)
-- Main game loop
for i = GameLength, 0, -1 do
for x, player in pairs(players) do
if player then
character = player.Character
if not character then
--Player has left the game or something else happened to their character
else
if character:FindFirstChild("GameTag") then
--They are still alive
print(player.Name.." is still in the game.")
else
--They are dead
table.remove(players,x)
print(player.Name.." has been removed from the game.")
end
end
else
table.remove(players,x)
print(player.Name.." has been removed from the game.")
end
end
Status.Value = "There are "..i.." seconds remaining, and "..#players.." players are left."
if #players == 1 then
--Only one player is standing!
Status.Value = "The winner is "..players[1].Name.."!"
players[1].leaderstats.Bucks.Value = players[1].leaderstats.Bucks.Value + reward
break
--The game is over!
elseif #players ==0 then
--No one is left!
Status.Value = "Nobody won!"
break
--The game is over!
elseif i == 0 then
--Timer runs out to 0!
Status.Value = "Time's up!"
break
--The game is over!
end
wait(1)
end
print("Round over!")
for i, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
character = player.Character
if not character then
--Ignore them
else
if character:FindFirstChild("GameTag") then
character.GameTag:Destroy() --Remove their gametags
end
if player.Backpack:FindFirstChild("Sword") then
player.Backpack.Sword:Destroy() --Remove the sword from their inventories
end
if character:FindFirstChild("Sword") then
character.Sword:Destroy() --Remove the sword from their inventories
end
end
player:LoadCharacter()
end
ClonedMap:Destroy()
wait(2)
Status.Value = "Round over, game ended!"
end
Any help is welcomed and thank you so much for taking the time to read this post!
print("From the stars,\nRyan.")
1 comment
add a wait(.1) before character.Humanoid.Died