Help getting a tool into player inventory (via script)

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
1

I suck at scripting so I need help. Sorry for actual embarrassing dum mistakes :flushed:

Basically, I’m making a shop system where the player goes into a store and interacts with an item’s proximity prompt. If they have the amount of money that is needed to purchase the item, they get it in their inventory as a tool and the mesh is destroyed. What players see and interact with is just a mesh. A sword is given to them, a tool. But this doesn’t work.

  • The cash system was made using leaderstats

Here is the sad script

image

sword1 = the mesh sword
sword2 = the tool sword

When running this script nothing came in f9 when i playtested. Help is appreciated thanks

2 Likes
2

what specifically doesn’t work? Also, is this a script or a local script? Local scripts cannot change datastore values.
I assume there are no errors either. In the future, please avoid using screenshots of code and instead paste your code into a code block.
Did any of the print statements appear?

3

Not sure what doesn’t work, nothing came in f9/output. It’s a script.

I can edit the post, I just forgot how to put it in the block on DevForum

4

What type of script is this? Server or Local script? And is there any errors on the output?

5

So absolutely nothing works? Try adding a print statement at the start of the onPromptTriggered function.

6

I just did, nothing showed in output. I know I referenced it correctly and have put the PP where it should be.

7

Is the script enabled? Absolutely nothing prints even when you put it at the start of the function?
Perhaps try using an anonymous function instead?

8

yes and yes

Sorry, how would I go about that?

9

Add a print at the start of the script (line 1) and see if it prints

10

an anonymous function is when you create a new function on the spot

ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(plr)
    -- your code
end)
11

Oh ok. But in the function you also need to reference plr so not sure if it works. But I can try that

12

image

13

You can add plr “inside” the function, like this:

ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(plr)
    -- your code
end)
1 Like
14

Maybe script.Parent isn’t a proximity prompt. Try checking that.

1 Like
15

Oh ok, I used to always get the red underline whenever I tried it. Must’ve been my mistake. I’ll try it and I’ll see if it works, thank you!

16

It’d error if it wasn’t since Triggered is an event exclusive to ProximityPrompts.
I feel like the wrong Proximity Prompt is being referenced here…

17

image
This is the mesh sword with the script, it’s properly being referenced. And it still doesn’t work…

Perhaps the code:

  • sword2.Parent = plr.Character

isn’t the right way to get the tool inside the inventory? But then again… The sword is not destroyed when the PP is interacted with (and when I have enough money) so that’s weird too

18

Is the ProximityPrompt’s Enabled property actually enabled?

19

The script still doesn’t print when the proximity prompt is triggered. So it can’t be that.

21

Uh, script.Parent isn’t the proximity prompt, it’s the sword. You want script.Parent.ProximityPrompt.