How do I check if an NPC doesn't have a name from a table?

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#1

I’m currently working on an AI for my Guest defense like gamemode, so I have the issue that the other AIs are accidentally shooting themselves, what I have tried is to use a pairs code to get the other AI names from a table, something like this:

for _, Name in pairs(Names) do
    if ObjectThatGotHitByBullet.Parent.Name ~= Name then
        --Damage code here
    end
end

However, the problem is that if only one Name is not the name of the NPC, it will damage the other NPC, I don’t know how to fix this, thanks for reading.

#2

Is the Name variable already defined?

#3

Can’t you simply check if the object that was hit’s name is different the person who shooted?

#4

Name is each name set inside the table Names, Name is a string.

#5

There will be different names of NPCs, such as Soldier, Quickster, etc.

#6

Oh yeah I see now. Didn’t see it being defined in the for loop the first read through.

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#7

What if you simply have the name of the humanoid something like “AI,” then when the when they are shot, if the humanoid has that exact name, don’t deal damage!

#8

So you would have all the names in a table and use table.find:

local Names = {} -- the names

if not table.find(Names, ObjectThatGotHitByBullet.Parent.Name) then
    -- do something
end