Make Player Equip Tool On Button Press

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#1

Hello everyone! I’m new here, and I’ve been trying to make a custom hotbar, I’ve disabled the default backpack GUI, so I can’t equip tools with the 0-9 keys, and I’ve been trying to recreate that so that if I press 1, it equips a gun that is in the StarterPack, here is what I’ve scripted so far.

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
local Backpack = Player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
local Gun = Backpack:FindFirstChild("Gun")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, process)
	if not process then
		if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.One then
			if Humanoid then
				if Gun then
			Humanoid:EquipTool(Gun)
		end
		end
	end
end
end)

However, this doesn’t work, I know that the button press event works because I placed a breakpoint and it stopped the test, but the player doesn’t equip the tool, if anyone can offer help I would be really grateful.

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#2

You could make a system where it detects if it is enabled or not. You could use RemoteEvents, if the tool is inside of the character it counts as equipped.

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#3

Sorry, I didn’t understand what you meant by that, did you mean using RemoteEvents to check if the tool is enabled or not?

#4

You could use RemoteEvents to check if the gun is equipped or not.

Edit: Perhaps you could use a BoolValue to detect if the gun has been equipped or not.

#5

And as usually asked, I am assuming that is in a LocalScript?

#6

Yes, I put it in a LocalScript.

#7

Give me a moment while I try to rewrite your code.

#9

I have rewritten your code the way I would’ve made it and I have fixed a few of your errors and removed unnecessary parts.

Put this in the LocalScript:

    local Service = game:GetService("UserInputService")

    Service.InputBegan:Connect(function(KeyboardInput)
    	if KeyboardInput.KeyCode.Name == "One" then
    		game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("GunEquip"):FireServer()
    	end
    end)

Make a new script in ServerScriptService and paste this:

            local Event = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
            Event.Name = "GunEquip"
            Event.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
            Equipped = false

            Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
            	if Equipped == false then
            		Player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Gun").Parent = Player.Character
            		Equipped = true
            	else
            		Player.Character:WaitForChild("Gun").Parent = Player.Backpack
            		Equipped = false
            	end
            	Player.Character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
            		Equipped = false
            	end)
            end)
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#10

Thank you! It worked perfectly.

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#12

I found another solution which does not require a server script. I don’t know if it is good to have the server handle the equipping of tools, so be sure to look into that.

local Character = Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

When I tested it, it kept waiting, and I don’t think Character would be set to anything anyway.

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#14

Very late, but when i was using this only one player can equip the tool. I have no idea how to fix this but I have been trying by making it so the equipped varible is sent on the client. But whatever i try does not work.

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local isequiped = false

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input)
	if Input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.F then
		if isequiped == false then
			isequiped = true
			game.ReplicatedStorage.FlashlightEquip:FireServer(plr, isequiped)
		else
			isequiped = false
			game.ReplicatedStorage.FlashlightEquip:FireServer(plr, isequiped)
		end
	end
end)


local event = game.ReplicatedStorage.FlashlightEquip

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, isequiped)
	if isequiped == false then
		plr.Backpack:WaitForChild("Flashlight").Parent = plr.Character
		isequiped = true
	else
		plr.Character:WaitForChild("Flashlight").Parent = plr.Backpack
		isequiped = false
	end
	plr.Character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
		isequiped = false
	end)
end)
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#15

Any fix to this? Players in my game can’t equip the tool if someone already has it equipped

#16

I rescripted a fix… I lost the script…

#17

I got a working version

ServerScriptService

local Event = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
Event.Name = "TorchEquip"
Event.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage

local equippedStatus = {}

Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	if equippedStatus[Player] == nil or not equippedStatus[Player] then
		Player.Backpack:WaitForChild("Torch").Parent = Player.Character
		equippedStatus[Player] = true
	else
		Player.Character:WaitForChild("Torch").Parent = Player.Backpack
		equippedStatus[Player] = false
	end

	Player.Character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
		equippedStatus[Player] = false
	end)
end)

StarterGui

local Service = game:GetService("UserInputService")

Service.InputBegan:Connect(function(KeyboardInput)
	if KeyboardInput.KeyCode.Name == "F" then
		game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("TorchEquip"):FireServer(game.Players.LocalPlayer)

	end
end)
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