Issues with detecting number of players alive in our game

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#1

Okay, so me and my bro are developing a round-based obby game, and I am having a little trouble with the lobby script. I can now teleport players around the place, but I haven’t quite figured out how to detect how many players are still in a round. My script below (placed in ServerScriptService) has a variable that will reset, then increase in value according to the ipairs function. I have this outputting to a Value placed in StarterGui, then a GUI that is synced to that Value, so I can effectively debug the system. Now the problem. I have a Part placed in one of the maps with a script that will decrease the Value by 1. This much does not work. I have included the script that is placed in ServerScriptService below:

    PlayersAlive = 0

    --FUNCTION DEFINING
    function teleportTo(x,y,z)
    	target = CFrame.new(x,y,z) --could be near a brick or in a new area
    	for i, player in ipairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
    	   --Make sure the character exists and its HumanoidRootPart exists
    	   if player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
    	       --add an offset of 5 for each character
    	      player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = target + Vector3.new(0, i * 5, 0)
    	   end
    	PlayersAlive = PlayersAlive + 1
    	game.StarterGui.PlayersAlive.Value = PlayersAlive
    	end
    end

    function postToGui(text)
    	game.StarterGui.String1.Value = text
    end

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------ON TO THE MAIN SCRIPT :D-----------------------------
    while true do
    	PlayersAlive = 0
    	workspace.one:Play()
    	workspace.SoundO:Play()
    	for x = 45, 0, -1 do
    		postToGui("INTERMISSION: " .. x)
    		wait(1)
    	end
	
	workspace.one:Stop()
	selection = 1 --math.random(1,4)
	
	if selection == 1 then
		teleportTo(1000, 1.5, 669)
		print("Lava Obby selected!")
		postToGui("Lava Obby by Destruct_ed selected!")
		workspace.LavOb:Play()
				
	elseif selection == 2 then
		teleportTo(47.08, 7.5, -566.94)
		print("Facility Breakdown selected!")
		postToGui("Facility Breakdown by Destruct_ed selected!")	
		workspace.FacBdown:Play()
		
	elseif selection == 3 then
		teleportTo(104.71, 17.5, -141.22)
		print("Generic Cat Food by Destruct_ed selected!")
		postToGui("Generic Cat Food by Destruct_ed selected!")	
		workspace.GenC:Play()
		
	elseif selection == 4 then
		teleportTo(256, 13.51, 423)
		print("Broken Savanna by Regen_erate selected!")
		postToGui("Broken Savanna by Regen_erate selected!")
		workspace.BrokSav:Play()	
	end
	
	workspace.SoundI:Play()
	
	i = 60
	for i = 120, 0, -1 do
		wait(1)
		game.StarterGui.String1.Value = "IN ROUND: " .. i
		if game.StarterGui.PlayersAlive.Value == 0 then break end
	end
	teleportTo(0,0,0)
	workspace.FacBdown:Stop()
	workspace.LavOb:Stop()
	workspace.GenC:Stop()
	workspace.BrokSav:Stop()
end

Suggestions?

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#2

May we see the script for the part that decreases the value? Perhaps the problem lies there.

#3

A post was merged into an existing topic: Off-topic and bump posts

#4

Here:

target = CFrame.new(20, 20, 0)
function onTouched(hit)
    local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
    if player then
        player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = target
    end
end
 
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouched)
tempval = game.StarterGui.PlayersAlive

tempval.Value = tempval.Value - 1
#5

You might want to put your tempval operations inside the onTouched function.

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#6

How would you recommend doing that?

#7

Ohhh… that was an oversight. Hehe, oops. I only need to change the variable when the function gets called. Thank you for the help!