How to get the children who has a value ticked from a folder?

[Nenemeee (Nene)]

I’ll try to explane it best to my abilties.

I have a folder. Inside the folder, there are npcs (who are going to be waiters). Every NPC has a Bool Value, which turns true whenever a waiter is busy. I’m writing a script where when a player clicks on a button, a random waiter who isnt busy will show up.

However, how do I refer to the npcs who are checked “false” in the folder?

Here is what I thought might work for selecting a random waiter:

local NPC = game.npcFolder:GetChildren()
--at this point the game needs to get children with the boolvalue false, which will be named avaible npcs

clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()

local playerNPC = avaibleNPC[math.random(1, #avaibleNPC)]

Thanks for the help ^^

[ketrab2004 (ketrab)]

Something like this?

local NPCsToFilter = game.npcFolder:GetChildren()
local availableNPCs = {}

for _,npc in NPCsToFilter do
    if not npc.boolvalue.Value then
        table.insert(availableNPCs, npc)
    end
end

local chosenNPC = availableNPCs[math.random(1, #availableNPCs)]

Then you put this inside of the click event.

[DasKairo (Cairo)]

Assuming you are using Attributes, You can do this:

local local playerNPC = avaibleNPC[math.random(1, #avaibleNPC)]
if not PlayerNPC:GetAttribute("Busy") then
    -- code

But, There are flaws in this code, this code can choose a waiter that is already Busy, or was choosen by someone else playing the game, which can lead to some issues, for this, we can create 3 tables for each state they are in:

local Busy = {} -- For the Waiters who are Busy
local Available = {} -- Waiters Ready to Work
local Working = {} -- This Table is so we can store our Chosen waiter without them being chosen again by another person

So when a Available Waiter is chosen, you can do this:

table.remove(Available, Available[NPC}) -- removes NPC from list
table.insert(Working, NPC) -- adds NPC to other list

You don’t have to do the Tables however, Its just a way to be organized.

[VSCPlays (Void)]

is all the boolvalues under game.npcFolder?

[Nenemeee (Nene)]

Not directly. Boolvalues are inside NPCs. NPCs are inside the npcFolder

[Nenemeee (Nene)]

Thank you for explaning to me. I’ll try it today to see if it works ^^

[caralegalclb417474]

Try using a variable.

local yournpcfolder = workspace.Folder:GetChildren()
local ChosenNPCnotBusy = nil

for _, npc in pairs(yournpcfolder) do
       if npc.Busy.Value == false then
              ChosenNPCnotBusy = npc
              break
       else
             continue
       end
end 

-- then the npc thats not busy is chosen at a variable.

[Nenemeee (Nene)]

This one worked for me even thought it doesnt choose it as random. Thank you