How do you create a value for every item in a modulescript

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#1

Hello, I want to make a intValue for every item that is inside a module script. What will be the best way of doing this?

#2

What I would do is create an IntValue outside of your items and use a for loop to iterate through each item. Clone the IntValue and parent it to your item.

Something like this:

local Int = Instance.New("IntValue")

local itemtable = Items.ItemTable -- Your table or whatever you want to loop through
   for i,v in pairs(itemtable) do -- Loop 
   local IntClone = Int:Clone() -- Clone intValue
   IntClone.Parent = v -- Parent it to item
end
#3

The issue is i want to loop through my items in a module script.

something like this and create a IntValue and the value for that is amount.
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#4

Is this amount going to be different for each item? If not, you can just go about using a for loop and cloning the IntValue and parenting it. Otherwise just do it manually. Create an IntValue and set the value to whatever, for each item.

#5

I’m planning of adding a lot of items and the amount is the default amount which will be 0. This is for setting up the playerstats at the beginning. Also I still don’t quite understand what you mean using a loop because I’m not sure how to cycle through the different items in the module script.

#6

Ok, I’m not too much familiar with modules myself but using a loop can get the job done.

for i , item in pairs (itemModule) do -- We're iterating through each item within the itemModule
  print(item.Name) -- This should print out Apple, Log, ect. 
end

return item

Edit: It should print out fine, I’m not sure why. Are you sure you used pairs instead of ipairs. Not sure why it’s nil, regardless. You also need to require it on the client for it for it to print.

require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("ModuleScript")

print(v) -- Prints the stuff.
#7

I tried this and it printed the value nil 11 times which is the amount of items i have in my module. I have required the module.

#8

I got it to work. The first time you said item.Name but then that causes nil cause it has no name.

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#9

You want to iterate through the table itemModule and then assuming every index has a table containing a key “Amount” associated with it:

for ind, v in pairs(itemModule) do
    local amount = v.Amount;
    local obj = Instance.new("IntValue");
    obj.Name = ind
    obj.Value = amount
    -- set the Parent property as well
end

to create an IntValue object for every index in the table.