Safe Zone for a sword fighting game

[qwover]

I’m making a sword fighting game, and I’m trying to make a safe zone so that when the player is touching it, they don’t have a sword and they have infinite health (I don’t want a forcefield as that kind of looks ugly in my opinion). Once they leave the safe zone, I tried making it so that the player will have 3 seconds of invincibility before they get their sword and their health is back to normal.

I also couldn’t find anything about adding the sword to the player’s inventory, but I know it involves moving the Sword from ServerStorage to StarterPack if I remember correctly, I just don’t remember where I saw that.

local health = 100

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if(part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart") then
		local character = part.Parent
		local healthParent = character.Health
		health = health + 100
	end
end)

script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function(part)
	if(part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart") then
		local character = part.Parent
		wait(3)
		health = 100
	end
end)

Here’s an image of my explorer if that helps at all:

I’m going to be making custom swords in the mean time because that’s something I can do!

[J_Angry]

Try using forcefields, but to disable the look, just clone one, put it into the player’s character, and turn the forcefields visibility to false. That should do the trick.

[qwover]

This does work, thank you! I didn’t know you could set the visibilty of ForceFields, so knowing this makes everything much easier.

I still need to figure out how to move Swords from ServerStorage to the player’s backpack, but I think I could find a tutorial on that somewhere.

[elmlingg]

local clone = path.to.weapon.sword:Clone()

clone.Parent = path.to.player.backpack

That should be the gist of what you’ll need to do

Edit: for auto equipping, you’ll want to parent it to the player instead.

[qwover]

I tried to do what you said but it gave me two swords (one not within 3 seconds and one after 3 seconds) and now my forcefield won’t destroy.

script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function(part)
	if(part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart") then return end
	
	local character = part.Parent
	local forceField = character:FindFirstChild("Safezone")
	
	if(forceField) then
		wait(3)
		forceField:Destroy()
		local clone = game.ServerStorage.Swords.ClassicSword:Clone()

		clone.Parent = character
	end
		
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)

	if(player) then
		event:FireClient(player, "Out")
	end
end)

That’s the whole of the TouchEnded script, I think I pathed the player to the correct area, and the clone too but I’m not entirely confident.

The sword is under ServerStorage

[elmlingg]

I believe it’s because you aren’t using any sort of debounce.

Please look up debounce Roblox Lua, on Google, implement it, and if you still have issues, report back

[qwover]

I got the debounce to work, now I’m trying to make it so when the player gets back into the zone, their backpack gets cleared of the sword.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if(part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart") then return end
	
	local character = part.Parent
	local forceField = Instance.new("ForceField")
	forceField.Name = "Safezone"
	forceField.Parent = character
	forceField.Visible = true
	local backpack = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Backpack")
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
	
	if(player) then
		event:FireClient(player, "In")
	end
end)

This is all I have right now for the Touched script, I have the backpack but I don’t know how to actually clear it. I’ve tried a couple things but they’ve broken the whole script.

[elmlingg]

That’s locally though, make sure you do the back pack logic on the server side.

Once you obtain the backpack, I believe, every child is a tool.

So loop through all children of the backpack, if the .Name is of SWORD (or w/e it’s named), then either :Destroy() it or add it to the game.debris.

[qwover]

I’ve updated the script a lot, but it still keeps bugging out and I don’t really know why.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if(part.Name ~= "HumanoidRootPart") then return end
	--if not game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) then return end
	
	local character = part.Parent
	local forceField = Instance.new("ForceField")
	forceField.Name = "Safezone"
	forceField.Parent = character
	forceField.Visible = true
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)
	local backpack = player:FindFirstChild("Backpack")
	
	if backpack then
		for _, child in pairs(backpack:GetChildren()) do
			if child:IsA("Tool") then
				child.Enabled = false
			end
		end
	end
	
	--for _, tool in ipairs(backpack:GetChildren()) do
	--	if tool:IsA("Tool") then
	--		tool:Destroy()
	--	end
	--end

	if player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool") then
		player.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Tool"):Destroy()
	end

	if(player) then
		event:FireClient(player, "In")
	end
end)

What happens is when the player enters back into the safezone while having the tool equipped, it starts looping the code for some reason. I think it has to do with the fact that Touched repeats every time you move basically, so unless there is a way to make it so it’s onTouch then I don’t really know how this could be fixed.

[elmlingg]

There’s a few ways. You can create a table outside of the function scope, and when a player touches the part, if they are not in the table, add them to it and run the logic. Otherwise do nothing.

When a player leaves, remove them from the table if they are in there.

This is one solution.