How to check if a player is in one of a couple of teams

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#1

Hey all,
I am trying to make some kind of gate which has to check a couple of things when a player touches a part.

It should only do the stuff if the player is…

  • sitting
  • in one of a variable amount of teams

This is my script at the moment, it doesn’t really seem to do what I need it to do. I tried using a table but couldn’t find a way to make it work…

local AllowedTeams = {
	"Team1";
	"Team2";
}

Sensor.Touched:Connect(function(Thing)
	if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent) ~= nil and Thing.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid").Sit == true then
		print("Sit=true, Player found")
		if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent).Team.Name == AllowedTeams then
			print("Player.Team=AllowedTeam")
			-- Some stuff
		end
	end
end)

I feel like I got pretty close

Also, I don’t quite understand the ‘~= nil’ part (I just copied that from somebody else)
EDIT: It stops after it prints the first sentence

#2

Just to confirm, does this print?

print("Sit=true, Player found")
#3

Doing a comparison using a table will not work, instead, you should iterate through the table and compare whether the player is on of those teams.

I have amended your code to include this:

local AllowedTeams = {
	"Team1",
	"Team2"
}

Sensor.Touched:Connect(function(Thing)
	-- ~= nil essentially means whether something exists, it checks whether game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent) exists
	if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent) ~= nil and Thing.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid").Sit == true then
		print("Sit=true, Player found")
		
		for i, teamName in pairs(AllowedTeams) do
			
			if game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent).Team.Name == teamName then
				print("Player.Team=AllowedTeam")
				-- Some stuff
				
				-- Break out of the loop
				break
			
		end
		
	end
end)

You can learn more about For Loops here:

#4

Yes it does, the next one doesn’t yet

#5

Ah that’s why! I tried replacing the code but now it doesn’t seam to print the first text anymore… Didn’t change anything
EDIT: One bracket was missing, now it works perfectly!

#6

Try this, you don’t need to loop through the table. Using table.find would work perfectly fine!

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local AllowedTeams = {
	"Team1";
	"Team2";
}

Sensor.Touched:Connect(function(Thing)
	if Thing.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") then
		if Players:FindFirstChild(Thing.Parent.Name) then
			local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Thing.Parent)
			local Humanoid = Thing:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
			
			if Humanoid.Sit then
				print("Sit=true, Player found")
			end
			
			if Player and table.find(AllowedTeams, Player.Team.Name) then
				print("Player.Team=AllowedTeam")
			end
		end
	end
end)

Learn more about table functions here too :slight_smile:

#7

Thanks for the help, the other solution works for me but this really could come in handy later. Now I understand a bit more about tables.
Thanks for helping everyone!

#8

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