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What do you want to achieve?
I want to achieve that the game awards points if I am inside the zone and stops awarding me points if I am outside the zone
What is the issue?
Game thinks that I went outside the Zone twice and stops awarding points at 4 points
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I couldn’t find solutions similar to this.
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local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Zone = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Zone)
local PointGiver = workspace.PointGiver15x
local zone = Zone.new(PointGiver)
local connection
local function givePoints()
while true do
wait(1)
print(1)
local Playerlist = Players:GetPlayers()
print(2)
for currentPlayer = 1, #Playerlist do
print(3)
local player = Playerlist[currentPlayer]
print(4)
local points = player.leaderstats.Time
print(5)
points.Value = points.Value + 2
print(6)
end
if zone.playerExited then
connection:Disconnect()
print(7)
end
end
end
connection = zone.playerEntered:Connect(givePoints)
print(8)
You will need several adjustments to the script but the main error is the misuse of the playerExited connection.
This is not a bool value but an event, it will always be true since it returns the playerExited signal/event like part.Touched.
You should use a seperate event to do so.
local function stopGivingPoints(playerExited)
--find a way to stop giving points to this player exited within this function
end
connection = zone.playerExited:Connect(stopGivingPoints)
Additionally to stop a while true do loop from running externally you can use this technique:
Or you can use a Heartbeat connection which runs every frame to give points everyframe, then :Disconnect() it once the player has left the zone.
Here is the script with the proposed changes I said earlier.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Zone = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Zone)
local PointGiver = workspace.PointGiver15x
local zone = Zone.new(PointGiver)
local whoIsGettingPoints = {}--store the cancel givePoints function in a dictionary
local function givePoints(player : Player)--zone+ gives the player instance here
local givePoints = true
task.spawn(function()
while givePoints do
task.wait(1)
local points = player.leaderstats.Time
print(5)
points.Value = points.Value + 2
end
end)
whoIsGettingPoints[player] = function()--add a function to set givePoints to false to stop giving points
givePoints = false
end
end
local function stopGivingPoints(player : Player)--zone+ gives the player instance here
local stopGivingPointsFunction = whoIsGettingPoints[player]
if stopGivingPointsFunction then
stopGivingPointsFunction()--execute stop giving points
whoIsGettingPoints[player] = nil
end
end
zone.playerEntered:Connect(givePoints)
zone.playerExited:Connect(stopGivingPoints)
It stores the cancel function for the giving points function.
local whoIsGettingPoints = {}--Initially empty
--then when a player enters
whoIsGettingPoints[player] = function()--add a function to set givePoints to false to stop giving points
givePoints = false
end
--Let's say you entered the dictionary will be this:
whoIsGettingPoints = {
["zygote4593"] = function() givePoints = false end
}
--then it is executed when player has exited
local stopGivingPointsFunction = whoIsGettingPoints["zygote4593"]
if stopGivingPointsFunction then
stopGivingPointsFunction()--execute stop giving points
whoIsGettingPoints[player] = nil --set to nil to cleanup
end
Oh I thought you wanted something like a +1 points to player if in danger zone kinda thing.
It’s still the same concept store a method to cancel the “givingpoints” in a variable or a dictionary (for multiple players no the case here) then execute it when player exited
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Zone = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Zone)
local PointGiver = workspace.PointGiver15x
local zone = Zone.new(PointGiver)
local givePointsToAllPlayers
local function givePoints() --zone+ gives the player instance here
local givePoints = true
task.spawn(function()
while givePoints do
task.wait(1)
local Playerlist = Players:GetPlayers()
print(2)
for currentPlayer = 1, #Playerlist do
print(3)
local player = Playerlist[currentPlayer]
print(4)
local points = player.leaderstats.Time
print(5)
points.Value = points.Value + 2
print(6)
end
end
end)
if givePointsToAllPlayers == nil then
givePointsToAllPlayers = function() --add a function to set givePoints to false to stop giving points
givePoints = false
end
end
end
local function stopGivingPoints(player: Player) --zone+ gives the player instance here
if givePointsToAllPlayers then
givePointsToAllPlayers()
givePointsToAllPlayers = nil
end
end
zone.playerEntered:Connect(givePoints)
zone.playerExited:Connect(stopGivingPoints)
Okay, this is an entirely different way of doing this, but it’s the most efficient(at least I think it is).
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Zone = game.Workspace.Zone
local Deley = tick()
Zone.Touched:Connect(function()end)
RunService.Stepped:Connect(function() -- using runserivce is much better since even if there is an error, it wont stop.
if tick() - Deley >= 1 then -- checking if it's been one second since the first time we set deley.
Deley = tick() -- reset the deley
local AlreadyTouchedPlayers = {}
for _, Part in pairs(Zone:GetTouchingParts()) do
local Player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Part.Parent) -- getting the player
if Player and not table.find(AlreadyTouchedPlayers, Player) then -- if the player exist, and if you havent touched the same player's part twice then continue
AlreadyTouchedPlayers[#AlreadyTouchedPlayers + 1] = Player
Player.leaderstats.Time.Value += 1 -- add the score
end
end
end
end)
This should work, however the issue is that it could be less efficient than zone+ under a certain scenario the reason is because it uses :GetTouchingParts() which can detect parts that are not the player like the buildings, accessories, and tools.
Thanks for trying to help out as well though, appreciate it.
Hey, idk if you’re gonna reply but… when there is 2 or more people in game, and one person enters the zone, everyone gets points, i wanted that when player enters the zone, they only get points. not others.
