Functions and If loops

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to make a teleport block that only works when game.Workspace.BaseMap exists and do nothing when it doesn’t (between rounds).

Here is my current code in a script inside the teleport block:

function teleportPlayer(hit)
	local spawnblock = {game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn1,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn2,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn3,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn4,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn5,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn6,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn7}
	local target = CFrame.new(spawnblock[math.random(1,#spawnblock)].Position)
	if hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then 
	hit.Parent.Torso.CFrame = target
	game.Workspace.Sounds.Teleport:Play()
	end
end


script.Parent.Touched:Connect(teleportPlayer)

If have tried:

function teleportPlayer(hit)
	local spawnblock = {game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn1,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn2,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn3,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn4,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn5,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn6,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn7}
	local target = CFrame.new(spawnblock[math.random(1,#spawnblock)].Position)
	if hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil and game.Workspace:findFirstChild("BaseMap") ~= nil then 
	hit.Parent.Torso.CFrame = target
	game.Workspace.Sounds.Teleport:Play()
	end
end


script.Parent.Touched:Connect(teleportPlayer)

and

function teleportPlayer(hit)
	local spawnblock = {game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn1,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn2,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn3,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn4,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn5,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn6,game.Workspace.BaseMap.Spawn7}
	local target = CFrame.new(spawnblock[math.random(1,#spawnblock)].Position)
	if hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then 
	hit.Parent.Torso.CFrame = target
	game.Workspace.Sounds.Teleport:Play()
	end
end

if game.Workspace.BaseMap ~= nil then
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(teleportPlayer)
end

The first two work fine, but throw errors constantly between rounds saying the basemap doesn’t exist.
The third one doesn’t work at all.
I also tried putting the statement in the 2nd line. I tried it with WaitForChild and I tried doing if the basemap == nil then return else teleport, but nothing is preventing the error.

Can someone help me understand what I am doing wrong and why?

Thanks.

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#2

Add a variable.
local baseMap = workspace:FindFirstChild(“BaseMap”)

Then inside the function add an if statement
if baseMap then
–put the rest of your code in here
end

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#3

Thanks!

I found that also helped 2 other bugs in my code.

#4

I believe you can also use WaitForChild.

#5

I don’t think WaitForChild would work for this situation. I could be wrong.

#6

WaitForChild won’t run at all if your object doesn’t exist, if it does then it’ll run.

#7

This is not correct. WaitForChild will run in all cases because you’re calling a function. WaitForChild will yield the thread until an object exists that has the same name as the first string you pass to it. Optionally, you can also include a number - after n amount of seconds, if that object isn’t found, WaitForChild will stop yielding and return nil.

-- Code will not continue until an instance named BasePlate is in the Workspace
local basePlate = workspace:WaitForChild("BasePlate")

-- Code will wait 5 seconds or until BasePlate is found, otherwise return nil
local basePlate = workspace:WaitForChild("BasePlate", 5)
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