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Is there a way to take a StarterPlayerScript and Interact with the Character?

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So I'm making this game for fun and I'm trying to make it so when you achieve a certain rank, the game will speed you up. I've tried a couple of places to put this script but I don't know where to do this and how to speed the character up!

(This script ranks the character, and is located in StarterPlayerScripts)

local plr = script.Parent.Parent
local novice = ("Novice")
local exp = ("Expert")
local chgo = ("God Chez")
local loch = ("Lord Chez")
while true do
	wait(0.1)
	if plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 10 then
		plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = novice
	end
	if plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 50 then
		plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = exp
	end
	if plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 100 then
		plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = chgo
	end
	if plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 500 then
		plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = loch
	end
end

Is there a way I can take the player and find it's character? I know how to change WalkSpeed, but I don't know how to get the Player's character to do so.

Anonymous

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You almost had it!

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local c = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:wait();
local h = c:WaitForChild("Humanoid");
local novice = ("Novice")
local exp = ("Expert")
local chgo = ("God Chez")
local loch = ("Lord Chez")
local cheeses = plr.leaderstats.Cheeses;
cheeses:GetPropertyChangedSignal:Connect(function() -- set walkspeed wherever you want with 'h.WalkSpeed = number', replacing 'number' with whatever speed you want.
    if cheeses.Value == 10 then
        plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = novice
    elseif plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 50 then
        plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = exp
    elseif plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 100 then
        plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = chgo
    elseif plr.leaderstats.Cheeses.Value == 500 then
        plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = loch
    end
end)

An even more advanced way of doing it (and compressing it) is to use dictionaries.

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local c = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:wait();
local h = c:WaitForChild("Humanoid");
local novice = ("Novice")
local exp = ("Expert")
local chgo = ("God Chez")
local loch = ("Lord Chez")
local cheeses = plr.leaderstats.Cheeses;
local dictionary = {
  [10] = novice,
  [50] = exp,
  [100] = chgo,
  [500] = loch
} -- Create keys here in the dictionary so we can get them anytime

cheeses:GetPropertyChangedSignal:Connect(function() -- set walkspeed wherever you want with 'h.WalkSpeed = number', replacing 'number' with whatever speed you want.
    if(dictionary[cheeses.Value] ~= nil) then
        plr.leaderstats.Rank.Value = dictionary[cheeses.Value];
    end
end)
AnonymousEdited Permalink

Every player object has an object property called Character, to get the character all you need is to call plr.Character

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