Global Part Touched Value?

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  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to make a part that displays How many times a part has been touched across all servers and update it constantly between servers, and also save the value, example

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  2. What is the issue? I just don’t know how to go about this, I am not that good at scripting and I don’t really know how to do global stuff.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I have tried to make a Script in ServerScriptService that updates the part frequently, and every time you touch the part it changes the value inside the part.
    The script:

    local sign = workspace[“touch counter”]

    while true do
    sign.main.SurfaceGui.Textvalue.Text = “”…sign.Touches.Value
    wait(50)
    end

Like I said I am not the best at scripting and not good at the global stuff so if you can help me that would be great! Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

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You can use the Touched event.
An example would be:

local part = mypart 
part.Touched:Connect(function()
print("Part has been touched!")    
end)
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This can be easily done the following way:

--script as a child of the part
local touches = --link the IntValue position
local debounce = false

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
if debounce == false then
debounce = true
touches.Value = touches.Value + 1
wait(1)
debounce = false
end
end
end)

--script as a child of the sign

local touches = --link the IntValue position
local text = --link Text Label Position

touches.Changed:Connect(function() 
--using a .Changed function does the same as while loop, but faster and causes less lag

text.Text = "This part has been touched "..touches.Value.." times."

end)
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Yea but I don’t know how to make it update for all servers if somone in a different server touches it

5

You can use MessagingService for that.

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I am using is a script, which is shown on all servers, so all players should see the same thing.

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Your script only updates on one server since you’re not sending anything to the other servers but just using Touched on a single server.

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Ok, but is there a way to save the value when all servers of the game close and the value stays on the part?

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DataStoreService may help with storing the amount of times the part has been touched. You should save the value when the server stops, BindToClose will fire a function you gave when it happens.

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The value, which it is updating, is an IntValue relative to all servers.

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I’m sure it doesn’t update on all servers.

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I am sorry for misunderstanding the purpose. Yeah, IntValues only stay for a specific server, not all servers. :sweat_smile:

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13

do what a leaderboard does…

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I would suggest MessagingService for this type of system. That is meant for just this sort of thing. With messaging service you can PublishAsync() and :SubscribeAsync() when the part is touched using the Touched event

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You typed sign.main.SurfaceGui.Textvalue.Text = “”…sign.Touches.Value thats not correct because you typed three dots you need to type just 2 here’s the script:

local sign = workspace[“touch counter”]

while true do
sign.main.SurfaceGui.Textvalue.Text = “” …sign.Touches.Value
wait(50)
end

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Why use concatenation with an empty string if you can just do sign.Touched.Value?

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Best way to go about this would probably be to use MessagingService along with DataStoring. I would save the value when the server closes, and communicate when the part is touched with MessagingService.