Destroy object locally with specific name on join

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1

  1. What do you want to achieve? gates destroy when a player joins based on his Value

  2. What is the issue? the gates dont destroy themselves

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? i tried to use for loops but it didnt work

heres a part of the code which is supposed to destroy the gates on join

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local gatesValue = player.Data:FindFirstChild("Gates")
local world = game:GetService("Workspace")

for i, v in pairs(world:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name == "Gate"..tostring(gatesValue.Value <= gatesValue.Value) then
		v:Destroy()
	end
end
2

Why did you write this? tostring(gatesValue.Value <= gatesValue.Value) will always return the string "true" because obviously gatesValue.Value == gatesValue.Value is true, so you’re essentially checking if the gate is named "Gatetrue". Is that what your gates are named?

3

the value is an integer and im checking if there is a gate which is named Gate1 and another named Gate2 which the script will check from the values

4

<= will return a true/false value as it’s a comparison.

5

Try this.

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local gatesValue = player.Data:FindFirstChild("Gates")
local world = game:GetService("Workspace")

for i, v in pairs(world:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name == "Gate1" or v.Name == "Gate2" then
		v:Destroy()
	end
end
6

Instead of just relying on the client to destroy the gate (as it could accidentally be brought back on the server), you could simply create a Collision Group for all players who are not permitted to pass the gate when their character loads.

7

but if i do that the gates would just instantly destroy on join and the values wont do anything