How to find out if a player is holding a weapon

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#1

I was wondering how i would go about making a script to wait until a tool is in my player.Character

I have already tried using .Equipped, but that makes the function fire when the tool is in his inventory, i want to check if the player has the tool in his hands

#2

Character:FindFirstChild(“Tool”)

#3

You could do this which is more reliable. Add this into a local script. Then move the local script into starter gui(if u don’t then this wont work.)

local Character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
Character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(Child)
	if Child:IsA("Tool") then
		if Child.Name == "ToolNameHere" then
			--- do stuff
		end
	end
end)

This will check every time a child is added. So it’ll check if it is a tool. Then it will check if it’s your desired tool name. Then you can make it do the stuff.

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#4

Thanks a lot! ive been trying to figure this out I really appreciate it! :grinning:

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#5

Haha, no problem! Have a good day!

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#6

The Equipped event is fired every time the player equips a new tool, I think that would be better to use since it has less impact on the server.

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/Tool/Equipped

#7

He said he has already tried to use .equipped but he wanted to check if the player has the tool in their hands.

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#8 
local players = game:GetService("Players")

player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		local backpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
		local tools = backpack:GetChildren()
		for i, tool in pairs(tools) do
			tool.Equipped:Connect(function(mouse)
				--do stuff here
			end)
		end
	end)
end)
#11

That is exactly what equipped is for. Your script is just checking the backpack of the player.

#12

I know. But he said he wanted to use something esle thats not .Equipped.

#13

Equipped is only fired when the tool is equipped not when the tool is simply in the player’s backpack.

#14

I think the OP wanted to detect when any Tool instance was given to the player, not a specific one.

Reply: Yeah, but that’s not your fault.

#15

I’m not sure their post is a little misleading and they seem to be conflating equipped with inventory.