How to make a shop system (trouble with equipped)

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I’m making a shop, when you buy an item, it automatically equips it, but the previous item that was equipped stays equipped. How can I fix that?

I have a table for each item, and they have an key called “Equipped”, that is set to false, then to true when you equip it

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2

You clone the item into player backpack instead?

3

Do Humanoid:UnequipTools() before you equip

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How would I know which item was previously equipped, and set its Equipped boolean to false?

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Don’t you just want to equip a new one? If so, it doesn’t matter which one was equipped before.

Humanoid:UnequipTools ()
Humanoid:EquipTool(ToolBought) -- your tool here

Like this

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It actually does, in my shop there’s a text label for each item, that says whether the item is equipped or not

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I tried using In Pairs but it did not work

for i, v in pairs(shopModule.gloves:GetChildren()) do
			
			if i["Equipped"] == true then
				
				i["Equipped"] = false
				
			end
			
		end

(probably because the keys aren’t its children)

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Before you equip, just do Character: FindFirstChildOfClass(“Tool”).
That’s your equipped tool. Do it before you equip the new one. That’s your way to get the tool name/ the object itself

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That’s not my problem ;-; the tool is the easy part, I’m talking about the boolean I have for each tool

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shopModule.gloves = {
	
	["1"] = {
	
		["Price"] = 0;
		["Name"] = "No Gloves";
		["Owned"] = true;
		["Equipped"] = true;
	};
	
	["2"] = {
	
		["Price"] = 15;
		["Name"] = "Wooden Gloves";
		["Owned"] = false;
		["Equipped"] = false;
	};
	
	["3"] = {
	
		["Price"] = 50;
		["Name"] = "Stone Gloves";
		["Owned"] = false;
		["Equipped"] = false;
	};

How could I use In Pairs, to check if one of them has Equipped == true? (I tried to use GetChildren() on shopModule.gloves, but I guess that’s not how it works)

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Just do:

And get the name. And in the shop module, loop through it, and if the name is equal, change it the equipped to false or the opposite
I am not sure, but here’s an example:

local tool = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool").Name
for i, v in ipairs(shopModule.gloves) do
      If(v["Name"] == tool) then
            v["Equipped"] = false
      end
end

Do that before you equip the new tool.

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okay, imma change the Index to the name of the glove then

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plr.Backpack:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool").Name

could I do this?

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Yes, but don’t you want to check if it’s in the character? Because the character is the parent of the Equipped Tool

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What do you mean when you say equipped? Does the player have only one tool? And it’s not in the character?
Only 1 item should be equipped in the shop?

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You can only have one item equipped at a time

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You can do this then to find out which tool was equipped:

local tool = Backpack:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool").Name
for i, v in ipairs(shopModule.gloves) do
      If(v["Name"] == tool) then
            v["Equipped"] = false
      end
end
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Why dont you just save the tool equipped on the client only and update it with a remote event from the server?

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Dang I forgot gloves was a table, I didn’t need to use GetChildren() ;-;

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Your current method of saving the tools seems inefficient