Basically the character spawns in a personality and that personality determines what type of face they will spawn with, I’ve been trying for awhile to figure out how I can match the variable from the face I’ve put in a folder of faces with the personality the player has.
Some faces have multiple types that could align with the character personality which is why they have multiple string values.
Nothing seems to work! Any tips?
local Personality = playerFolder:FindFirstChild("Personality").Value
local faceOptions = game.ServerStorage.NPCAssets.Faces:GetChildren()
local chosenface = faceOptions:FindFirstChild("Type") == Personality
local randomface = (chosenface[math.random(#faceOptions)])
if playerAppearance then
for _,v in pairs(playerAppearance:children()) do
if v:IsA("DataModelMesh") then
Head.Mesh:Destroy()
v.Parent = Head
newHeadMesh = true
elseif v:IsA("Decal") then
Head.face:Destroy()
v.Name = "face"
v.Parent = Character.Head
v.Texture = randomface.Texture
newFace = true
Tried to try this another way but it still didn’t work! Just got an error.
local Personality = playerFolder:FindFirstChild("Personality").Value
local faceOptions = game.ServerStorage.NPCAssets.Faces:GetChildren()
local randomface = (faceOptions[math.random(#faceOptions)])
local chosenface = randomface:FindFirstChild("Type").Value == Personality
chosenface is a boolean, because there is a == operator.
randomface is indexing the boolean, which is chosenface with [math.random], which appearantly was all explained in the error.
you cannot do: true["Texture"] or false["Texture"], because they are booleans that were made for performing logic
In which case, how would I make it so it would be able to “check” if it’s the correct value for the personality without making it repeat the randomization process over and over until it finds the correct one? Because when I tried that it made the script time-out.
I fixed it by reworking the way I did it, instead of searching for tags I opted for much simpler solution. I put each one in a folder and made the script search for the name of it based off of the personality!
local Personality = playerFolder:FindFirstChild("Personality").Value
local faceFolders = game.ServerStorage.NPCAssets.Faces
local chosenFolder
for i,v in pairs(faceFolders:GetChildren()) do
if v.Name == Personality then
chosenFolder = v:GetChildren()
end
end
local chosenface = (chosenFolder[math.random(#chosenFolder)])
if playerAppearance then
for _,v in pairs(playerAppearance:children()) do
if v:IsA("DataModelMesh") then
Head.Mesh:Destroy()
v.Parent = Head
newHeadMesh = true
elseif v:IsA("Decal") then
Head.face:Destroy()
v.Name = "face"
v.Parent = Character.Head
--v.Texture = "rbxassetid://"..(faceOptions[math.random(#faceOptions)])
v.Texture = chosenface.Texture
newFace = true
