Respawn the opponent on the platform depending on the attribute he has

ItsSeishiroo · April 2, 2024, 12:09pm

What do you want to achieve?
I would like the opponent to respawn on each platform and take into account the attributes connected to a given respawn.
What is the issue?
I would like to respawn my opponent on a respawn platform, but I need to extract the value from the table one by one, and all the time it only extracts the first index and ignores the second one, what should I do?
What solutions have you tried so far?
I have looked at every possible way…

– ( If anyone has any doubts about my purpose, you can ask and I will try to explain it thoroughly )

spawnerlist = {game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()}

for i, v in pairs(spawnerlist) do
		
		spawner = v[i]
		
		while wait(1) do
			print(i)
			print(v)
	end
end

local respawnTime = spawner:GetAttribute("RespawnTime")
local enemyName = spawner:GetAttribute("EnemyName")
local enemy = game.ServerStorage.Enemies[enemyName]
local spawnedEnemy = nil

function despawnEnemy()
	if spawnedEnemy then
		spawnedEnemy:Destroy()
		spawnedEnemy = nil
	end
end

function spawnEnemy()
	despawnEnemy()
		local clonedEnemy = enemy:Clone()
		spawnedEnemy = clonedEnemy
		clonedEnemy.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawner.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
		clonedEnemy.Parent = workspace
end

while true do
	spawnEnemy()
	local humanoid : Humanoid = spawnedEnemy:WaitForChild("EnemyHumanoid")
	humanoid.Died:Wait()
	task.wait(respawnTime)
end

FirstLostData · April 2, 2024, 1:16pm

There are a few things wrong with this code. GetChildren() already returns a table. If you are not planning on having multiple tables, wrapping the method with {} will not work. (Refering to the line below)

spawnerlist = {game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()}

Now, your for loop was just running the first index because you are using a while loop inside of it. Loops in lua will yield the code, meaning they pause the code until they finish during their task, and since you are using an infinite loop, it will never run the next index or any of the remaining code.

I was a little confused on the goal of the code but I tried fixing it. It’s early in the morning so forgive me if I missed some things.

local spawnerlist = game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()

function despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
	if spawnedEnemy then
		spawnedEnemy:Destroy()
		spawnedEnemy = nil
	end
end

function spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy)
	despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
    local clonedEnemy = enemy:Clone()
    local spawnedEnemy = clonedEnemy
    clonedEnemy.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnPoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
    clonedEnemy.Parent = workspace
    return spawnedEnemy
end

for _,spawnPoint in spawnerlist do
    local respawnTime = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("RespawnTime")
    local enemyName = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("EnemyName")
    local enemy = game.ServerStorage.Enemies[enemyName]

    local spawnedEnemy = nil
	local humanoidConnection = nil
    
    humanoidConnection = spawnedEnemy:WaitForChild("EnemyHumanoid").Died:Connect(function()
        task.delay(respawnTime,function()
            spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy)
        end)
        humanoidConnection:Disconnect()
    end)
end

finalSteps333 · April 2, 2024, 1:33pm

it’s because GetChildren() already returns a table and u put this GetChildren() table inside of another tabe so there is only one value inside of the spawner table. Remove the curly brackets and I think u will be fine.

ItsSeishiroo · April 2, 2024, 1:34pm

To avoid confusion, I will explain more what the code is about

There are 2 platforms A and B (image 1) etc., each platform has its own attributes (image 2) and the code first checks which enemy will respawn and then how long it will take to respawn after being killed.

The main problem was that Humanoid would either appear on one of the platforms or not at all.

The corrected code now doesn’t work because humanoidConnection always returns nil

FirstLostData · April 2, 2024, 1:49pm

Yes. I just saw I forgot one important part of it. try this

local spawnerlist = game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()

function despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
	if spawnedEnemy then
		spawnedEnemy:Destroy()
		spawnedEnemy = nil
	end
end

function spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy)
	despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
    local clonedEnemy = enemy:Clone()
    clonedEnemy.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnPoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
    clonedEnemy.Parent = workspace
    return clonedEnemy
end

for _,spawnPoint in spawnerlist do
    local respawnTime = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("RespawnTime")
    local enemyName = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("EnemyName")
    local enemy = game.ServerStorage.Enemies[enemyName]

    local spawnedEnemy = nil
	local humanoidConnection = nil
    spawnedEnemy = spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy)
    humanoidConnection = spawnedEnemy:WaitForChild("EnemyHumanoid").Died:Connect(function()
        task.delay(respawnTime,function()
            spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy)
        end)
        humanoidConnection:Disconnect()
    end)
end

ItsSeishiroo · April 2, 2024, 1:52pm

Thanks, the code started working properly, you’re great!

FirstLostData · April 2, 2024, 2:19pm

this should fix the issue of it not respawning.

local spawnerlist = game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()

function despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
	if spawnedEnemy then
		spawnedEnemy:Destroy()
	end
end

function spawnEnemy(spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy,respawnTime,enemy)
	despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)

    spawnedEnemy = enemy:Clone()
    spawnedEnemy.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnPoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
    spawnedEnemy.Parent = workspace

    local humanoidConnection = nil

    humanoidConnection = spawnedEnemy:WaitForChild("EnemyHumanoid").Died:Connect(function()
        task.delay(respawnTime,function()
            spawnEnemy(enemy,spawnPoint,spawnedEnemy,respawnTime,enemy)
        end)
        humanoidConnection:Disconnect()
    end)
end

for _,spawnPoint in spawnerlist do
    local respawnTime = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("RespawnTime")
    local enemyName = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("EnemyName")
    local enemy = game.ServerStorage.Enemies[enemyName]

    spawnEnemy(spawnPoint,nil,respawnTime,enemy)
end

ItsSeishiroo · April 2, 2024, 2:26pm

The code you posted doesn’t work and removes my spawn point, but I’ve already resolved all the issues

Snippet my code:

local spawnerlist = game.Workspace.Level1.Respawns:GetChildren()

function despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
	if spawnedEnemy then
		spawnedEnemy:Destroy()
	end
end

function spawnEnemy(enemyModel, spawnPoint)
	local clonedEnemy = enemyModel:Clone()
	
	clonedEnemy.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnPoint.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,3,0)
	clonedEnemy.Parent = workspace
	return clonedEnemy
end

for _, spawnPoint in ipairs(spawnerlist) do
	local respawnTime = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("RespawnTime")
	local enemyName = spawnPoint:GetAttribute("EnemyName")
	local enemyModel = game.ServerStorage.Enemies[enemyName]

	local function spawnNewEnemy()
		local spawnedEnemy = spawnEnemy(enemyModel, spawnPoint)
		local humanoidConnection
		
		humanoidConnection = spawnedEnemy:WaitForChild("EnemyHumanoid").Died:Connect(function()
			humanoidConnection:Disconnect()
			task.delay(respawnTime, function()
				despawnEnemy(spawnedEnemy)
				spawnNewEnemy()
			end)
		end)
	end

	spawnNewEnemy()
end

system · April 16, 2024, 2:27pm

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