How to detect if a clone of something is a certain object

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#1

So I’m trying to make it so that if a specific object is cloned, the cloned object has a tag added onto it, but I don’t know how to detect if something specific gets cloned.

local Part = script.Parent
local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local DB = false

local function give(Player)
	local tool = script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot"..math.random(1,4))
	local lightammo = script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot1")
	local rifleammo = script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot2" and "Loot3" and "Loot4")
	local clone = tool.Value:Clone()
	
	if lightammo then
		print("yayy")
		CollectionService:AddTag(clone, "LightAmmo")
	end
	
	if rifleammo then
		print("hghgf")
		CollectionService:AddTag(clone, "LightAmmo")
	end

	if not DB and tool then
		DB = true
		Part.Transparency = 1
		Part.Equip:Play()
		Part.CanCollide = false
		Part.ClickDetector.MaxActivationDistance = 0
		clone.Parent = game.Workspace
		clone.CFrame = Part.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(math.random(1,360), 0, 0) + Vector3.new(math.random(-0.5,0.5),nil,math.random(-0.5,0.5))

		wait(2)

		DB = false
		Part.Transparency = 0
		Part.CanCollide = true
		Part.ClickDetector.MaxActivationDistance = 5
	end
end

Part.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(give)
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#2

what you can do is just check if the cloned object has a tag inside it

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#3

if the cloned object wasn’t cloned before, you can store a value for it in a table inside the function that clones the object. there are many ways to check this.

#4

I’m pretty sure I can use a for i,v loop to search through the tags, but how would I make it only loop through for the cloned parts that have the tag?

#5

hey, so you can loop through an object’s tags using CollectionService:GetTags(instance: Instance), which just returns on array. you could also use CollectionService:GetTagged(tag: String) which returns an array of objects with the specified tag. u can then check if the object is contained in that array. lastly, you can alternatively use Instance:SetAttribute(attribute: String, value: Varient) and Instance:GetAttributes() for an easier method opposed to tags

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#6

But how would I do those things only to an instance that is cloned?

#7

So when you clone on object, you have that clone stored to a variable. What you can do is add an attribute or tag that clone so that other scripts can read it

#8

the rifleammo variable will always search for “Loot4” because
("Loop2" and "Loop3" and "Loop4") == "Loop4"

I would do it like this:
local rifleammo = script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot2") or script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot3") or script.Parent.Selection:FindFirstChild("Loot4")

#9

But the clone is a randomized object

#10

Can you elaborate on why you need to confirm something is a clone?

#11

I have this other script that uses collection service for ammo, and I want ammo boxes to despawn every couple of minutes and I have this loot system that clones the ammo boxes, and the ammo box models have this tag on them, but they get deleted after a couple of minutes due to the ammo box script, so the looting part can’t clone the ammo