I am currently making a randomizer game, where in ReplicatedStorage, there are 3 folders: melee, ranged, and special. Each contains several items, and a script chooses a random one and give it to the player after every death.
Everything works fine, but I want to add badge items. I’m thinking I would make secretmelee, secretranged, and secretspecial folders filled with these badge items, and a script which detects if the user has a specific badge, but I don’t know where to go from there.
What are some possible ways I could add the special tools into the normal tool randomizer? Would using a localscript which moves the tool from the special file to the normal file work?
I haven’t tried anything yet since I got the idea right now (at school) and I’m not home yet.
Any help would be appreciated!
P.S. This is my first ever devforum post and I can’t wait to get into the developer community!
P.P.S I know a VERY basic amount of Lua, so, in advance, sorry if I don’t understand something you’re trying to tell me.
I don’t know if you want to pick a single weapon from the 3 groups together or 1 of each. Anyways I’ll share my idea with an example that you can generalize to make it suit your intention.
This script is suposed to be a server script in the StarterCharacterScripts folder.
local char = script.Parent
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
local plr = plrs:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
local bS = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local owned = bS:UserHasBadgeAsync(plr.UserId, id) -- id is the ID of your badge
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local mle = rep:WaitForChild("Melee") -- whatever your melee folder is called
local sMle = rep:WaitForChild("SecretMelee") -- whatever your secret melee folder is called
local n = #mle:GetChildren()
local m = n
if owned then
m = m + #sMle:GetChildren()
end
local ran = math.random(1, m)
local chosen = nil
if ran <= n then
chosen = mle:GetChildren()[ran]
else
chosen = sMle:GetChildren()[ran - n]
end
local nWep = chosen:Clone()
nWep.Parent = plr.Backpack
I check if the user has got the badge and, if they do, I extend the range from where i pick the random number by the amount of children the secret melee weapon folder has.
Anyway, the number is picked and, if its equal or less than n (the amount of children the normal melee folder has), then the ranth weapon from this folder is picked, people who dont have the badge will always be in this case. If the number is greater than n then that means that “it comes from the extension”, so the (ran-n)th weapon from this folder is picked (ran-n because in this case, its not the final index, but its the final + n).
Hey, I just looked into the code, and I think there was a bit of miscommunication. It doesn’t give quite the result I was looking for. Let me explain what I’m trying to do with an example (please note this example is a bit random)
Let’s say there’s a chicken boss in the game. Beating it gives you a badge, which is intended to add the egg to the players randomizer. The egg is one of two weapons stored in the specialmelee folder, the other weapon being for a completely different boss. What your code does is that it adds both the egg and the other boss’s weapon to your randomizer. I want only the egg to be added.
How would I go about changing your code to better fit this sort of example?
Once again, sorry if the example is a bit random ()
Well, in that case, i would create a table with all the normal weapons and the particular ones added in posteriorly if you have got the required badge for such. This way you would be adding only the particular unlocked weapons.
The following script can be optimized, but its alright.
local char = script.Parent
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
local plr = plrs:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
local bS = game:GetService("BadgeService")
local badge1 = bS:UserHasBadgeAsync(plr.UserId, id) -- id is the ID of your 1st badge
local badge2 = bS:UserHasBadgeAsync(plr.UserId, id) -- id is the ID of your 2nd badge
--etc
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local mle = rep:WaitForChild("Melee") -- whatever your melee folder is called
local sMle = rep:WaitForChild("SecretMelee") -- whatever your secret melee folder is called
local wep1 = sMle:WaitForChild("Weapon1")
local wep2 = sMle:WaitForChild("Weapon2")
--etc
local weps = mle:GetChildren()
if badge1 then
table.insert(weps, wep1)
end
if badge2 then
table.insert(weps, wep2)
end
--etc
local chosen = weps[math.random(1, #weps)]
local nWep = chosen:Clone()
nWep.Parent = plr.Backpack
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