How would you make a shop like in a simulator game?

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

I would like to know how you would create a shop like in a simulator game that has each item on a scrolling frame without having to make a script for each button.

  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

I don’t know if you should use an individual remote event for each button or a loop to check if a player interacted with one of the buttons.

  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I tried using remote events but it eventually just got too messy, with all the scripts everywhere.

I would like to know how you could do this.

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#2

So, I watch a tutorial on how to make a shop from youtube video.
They use for loop to make all the button with just one remote event to buy all the stuff, also a remote function to get all the items info.
:sweat_smile:

#3

That would work. I guess I didn’t research enough

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#4

You can still reply to this thread with other ideas.

#5

So basically you’d loop throught all of the buttons and just fire a remote event. I’m gonna give you an example.


-- vars --
 
local buttonsHolder = locationOfTheButton.ButtonsHolder
local buyRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage.BuyRemote

-- loop through the buttons --

for i, button in pairs(buttonsHolder:GetChildren()) do
   button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
      if cash.Value >= price.Value then -- check if the player has enough cash to buy it, make sure you do this on the server as well
         remote:FireServer(itemYouAreBuying) -- there's quite a few ways to get the item, you could get it from the button's name or put in a StringValue inside the button and set it's value to the item's name.
      end
   end
end
#6

Thanks, this is a better answer because it is actually explained with an answer.

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#7

I have a question about this method though, wouldn’t this run only once? So it would run once and then it wouldn’t pick up any other times you click it.

#8

Once it loops fully then it would stop.

#9

Actually no, you only need to loop through the buttons once and that’ll do the job. Obviously if for some reason you add a new button you’d have to run the loop again, but that’s pretty simple, you’d just put the loop in a function and call it when you need it.

#10

So would it loop whenever a button is pressed?

#11

Oh ok, that makes sense thank you.

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#12

No with the code I sent you it’ll loop only once and every button would work.

#13

So it will work if a player presses any one of the buttons and you’ll be able to buy them?

#14

Yes but I’ve only sent you the client script, you’d need to make a server one for the actual purchase of the item, if you want I could write you a server script example.

#15

Yes could you write the example, but also for the sake of me not making another post how would I add a description to each item and the items stats? Because it would be random if it just said buy and you didn’t know how good it was or anything.

#16

Sorry if im asking a lot of questions i’ve been scripting for a few months.

#17

So for the server script…

-- vars --

local remote = game.ReplicatedStorage.BuyRemote

-- purchase code --

remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, chosenItem) -- chosenItem being the item's name you sent on the client
    if cash.Value >= price.Value then -- now as for how you'd get the item's price is up to you, you can keep it in ServerStorage, ReplicatedStorage, inside the buy button, module script...
       item.Value += 1 -- adds 1 item 
    end
end

I don’t have much time but for the items stats, you could just put some values inside the button (NumberValue - for strength and such, StringValue - for description) and whenever you click or hover over the button you’d set some textlabel’s text to those values.

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#18

Thanks for the answers, I’ll try what you said.

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