Making A Checkpoint That You Can't Use Again

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#1

I’m currently making a checkpoint system for my game. So far, I’ve made it so when you touch the checkpoint, the checkpoint value changes. However, I want to make it so that once a player touches a checkpoint, they can’t use it again. This way no players can accidentally go back to a previous checkpoint.

I’ve tried creating a bool value that changes when the checkpoint is touched, making it so the checkpoint can only be used if the value is false. What I wanted to happen does indeed happen. However, I could only do this on the server. I’m not quite sure how I would do this locally. Any suggestions?

#2

You could add the player’s name via string inside of the checkpoint, so if the character’s name is within the checkpoint location, he/she can not re-activate the checkpoint.

You could also make a table like this when the checkpoint is touched:

local tab = {}

workspace.Checkpointtwo.Touched:Connect(function(part)
    local player = part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if player and tab[player.Parent.Name] == nil then
        tab[player.Parent.Name] = true;
    end
end

… so that the player will never re-trigger the checkpoint as well.

#3

You can add a Table that check if that Checkpoint is in the table or not, If not then it will add that checkpoint to the Table, if yes then just ignore it.

#4

Could you show us your code? So we can help you in a better way!

#5

Assuming the checkpoints are ordered, check if the player’s current checkpoint comes before the one they touched. If it doesn’t then ignore the checkpoint.

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#6

Would a debounce work well? Just make it so the debounce never changes back when the player touches it.

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