Checks are not working

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#1

I have an AI script for a Soldier, when a bullet touchs something, it does some checks:

if not TouchedObject:IsDescendantOf(script.Parent) or not AlreadyTouched[TouchedObject.Parent.Name] or not table.find(Allies, TouchedObject.Parent.Name) then

However, for any reason those checks are not working, I don’t know if I wrote something incorrectly, please tell me if you need more code that I can show you. I’m currently on phone, thanks for reading.

#2

You should add some print statements for debugging, so you get better understanding of, what actually happens and what values are being used.

A good way, would be to avoid having very long expressions in the if. So break up the expression-parts into individual statements:

print("TouchedObject.Parent.Name=", TouchedObject.Parent.Name)

local isDescendant          = TouchedObject:IsDescendantOf(script.Parent)
local valueInAlreadyTouched = AlreadyTouched[TouchedObject.Parent.Name]
local isInAlliesTable       = table.find(Allies, TouchedObject.Parent.Name)

print("isDescendant=", isDescendant)
print("valueInAlreadyTouched=", valueInAlreadyTouched)
print("isInAlliesTable=", isInAlliesTable)

if (not isDescendant) or (not valueInAlreadyTouched) or (not isInAlliesTable) then

---- Or use a slightly reduced expression:
-- if not (isDescendant or valueInAlreadyTouched or isInAlliesTable) then