How to check if an item is already spawned?

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#1

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to make it so it checks in a set amount of time if there is already an child in a folder and if there isn’t a child then it will spawn a new item

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    The issue is that the spawner will not spawn a new item.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I tried modifying the script in a different way to check if the part is present as a child in a folder.

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local Storage = script.Parent.Storage
local Spawner = script.Parent
local Value = script.SelectedItem.Value

script.Parent.Transparency = 1

while task.wait() do
	if Storage:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Accessory") then
		return
	else
		local Clone = Value:Clone()
		Clone.Parent = Storage
		Clone:FindFirstChild("Handle").CFrame = spawn.CFrame
	end
end

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#2

you can’t clone a proprety of a value…

#3

I didn’t know about that until now
i’ll change the script up to not include the value

#4

also your selecteditem is not a… tool…it’s a value so it doesn’t have a Handle

#5

what type of value is SelectedItem? is it an object value?

#6

It’s a number value, I know this because it has a # next to the name.

@EstebanMARIN17 what you are going to want to do here is you can keep that value but turn it into a string value or something and what you will want to do, keep all of your tools inside of a folder, I keep mind in a folder in ServerStorage.

After your loop has restarted and noticed that there was no tool simply find the tool where the name matches the values value like so:

local clone = folder:FindFirstChild(tostring(value.Value)):Clone()

I would personally make sure that there is a tool called that value before doing anything else just to ensure that there will be no errors or you can simply wrap in it a task.spawn(function()

Also no reason for doing that whole check to add unnecessary lines of code. Simply do as so:

while task.wait() do
	if not Storage:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Accessory") then
		if not folder:FindFirstChild(tostring(value.Value)) then return false; end
		local Clone = folder:FindFirstChild(tostring(value.Value)):Clone()
		Clone.Parent = Storage
		Clone:FindFirstChild("Handle").CFrame = spawn.CFrame
	end
end

I personally would also desyncronize this via debug just so that it is on it’s own thread with its own worker

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#7

Yeah SelectedItem is a object value

#8

Double check that it is an object value, also is the SelectedItem you are trying to clone a group model or an individual part? If it is an individual part, I tested this script and it works for me:

local Storage = script.Parent.Storage
local Spawner = script.Parent
local Value = script.SelectedItem.Value

script.Parent.Transparency = 1

while task.wait() do
	if Storage:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Accessory") then
		return
	else
		local Clone = Value:Clone()
		Clone.Parent = Storage
		Clone.CFrame = Spawner.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, 5, 0)
	end
end

However if it is a model then this won’t work