Problem with teleport player to a spawnpoint

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#1

So I am trying to make a system which is simular to a obby game, where you touch a spawn point and your “stage” goes up by 1 each time you touch a spawnpoint which has a higher value, this works however respawning or spawning people on said spawn points (with baseparts) proves difficult.

Basically what I’ve tried to do is call a function on the player’s character in a “for in pairs do” loop and use the checkpoint that belongs to the player’s stage number to decide where the player is sent to.

However, this does not work.

for _,checkpoint in pairs(parts) do
	checkpoint.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local stage = checkpoint.Name
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		if plr and plr.leaderstats and plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value == stage - 1 then
			plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value = stage
		end
		plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
			local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			hum.Died:Connect(function()
				if plr:WaitForChild("Character") then
					plr.Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame = checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
				end
			end)
		end)
	end)
end

Is it the positioning of the character function? Or can it not be inside any loop at all?

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#2

Here is what I’d do

-- ServerScript
local checkpoints = workspace:FindFirstChild("Checkpoints") --put checkpoints here

for _, checkpoint in pairs(checkpoints) do
	checkpoint.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local stage = checkpoint.Name
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		if plr and plr.leaderstats and plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value == stage - 1 then
			plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value = stage
		end
	end)
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local leaderstats = plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
    
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(chr)
		if leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Stage") then
			-- this will get the checkpoint of the current stage
			local checkpoint = checkpoints:FindFirstChild(tostring(leaderstats.Stage.Value))
			-- teleport player to current stage
			chr.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
		end
	end)
end)
#3

there is no point of checking leaderstats.Stage, if it doesn’t exist then it will error anyway.

if leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Stage") then
#4

Ah you’re right, my mistake haha

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#5

so i left out the rest of the script thinking it wasnt relevant

it very much was

local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("stages")
local parts = game.Workspace.parts:GetChildren()

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local ls = Instance.new("Folder",plr)
	ls.Name = "leaderstats"
	local s = Instance.new("IntValue",ls)
	s.Name = "Stage"
	s.Value = 0
	
	local data = datastore:GetAsync("stages")
	if data then
		s.Value = data
	end
	
	local hum = plr:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	hum.Died:Connect(function()
		local stage = plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value
		local success, err = pcall(function()
			datastore:SetAsync("stages", stage)
		end)
		if not success then
			warn(err)
		end
	end)
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local s = plr.leaderstats.Stage
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		datastore:SetAsync("stages", s.Value)
	end)
	if not success then
		warn(err)
	end
end)

for _,checkpoint in pairs(parts) do
	checkpoint.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
		local stage = checkpoint.Name
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		if plr and plr.leaderstats and plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value == stage - 1 then
			plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value = stage
		end
		plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
			local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			hum.Died:Connect(function()
				wait(6)
				if plr:WaitForChild("Character") then
					plr.Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame = checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
				end
			end)
		end)
	end)
end

here is how it is rn @venviqr @ScriptingShroom

and yeah its a mess, i just tried to get back into scripting

#6

is there any errors in the output? if so, can you show us them?

its been an hour, so i dont know if you solved this yet, but there is 1 weird thing about your script (idk if this would help it)

instead of using this

plr.Character.PrimaryPart.CFrame = checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)

try this

plr.Character:PivotTo( checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0))

this might help, i dont know though

#7

there was, but i resolved them and ended up with this

local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("stages")
local parts = game.Workspace.parts:GetChildren()

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local ls = Instance.new("Folder",plr)
	ls.Name = "leaderstats"
	local s = Instance.new("IntValue",ls)
	s.Name = "Stage"
	s.Value = 0
	
	local data = datastore:GetAsync("stages")
	if data then
		s.Value = data
	end
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		for _,checkpoint in pairs(parts) do
			checkpoint.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
				local stage = checkpoint.Name
				local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
				if plr and plr.leaderstats and plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value == stage - 1 then
					plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value = stage
				end
			end)
			plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
				char.PrimaryPart.CFrame = checkpoint.CFrame + Vector3(0,2.5,0)
			end)
		end
		local hum = plr.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		hum.Died:Connect(function()
			local stage = plr.leaderstats.Stage.Value
			local success, err = pcall(function()
				datastore:SetAsync("stages", stage)
			end)
			if not success then
				warn(err)
			end
		end)
	end)
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local s = plr.leaderstats.Stage
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		datastore:SetAsync("stages", s.Value)
	end)
	if not success then
		warn(err)
	end
end)

basically it said that plr.characteradded was nil, thats because it was outside of the playeradded function, so i fixed that

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