I have a working marble system, and am trying to make a hot-potato game in which you collide with each other to pass the ‘hot marble’ (turn BrickColor("Red"), marble:SetAttribute("Hot", true)).
Problem is, every variation of this system I’ve tried has not replicated correctly, only worked once, or been bogged down in many lines of useless code.
To visualize: A red marble with a Hot attribute set to true collides with another marble. That marble is now red and Hot, while the originally Hot marble is no longer red or Hot.
Any help is appreciated. I’ve run into problem after problem.
Check on the server:
local function main(other_part)
other_part:SetAttribute("Hot", not other_part:GetAttribute("Hot"))
marble:SetAttribute("Hot", not marble:GetAttribute("Hot"))
-- Code to change appearance
end
marble.Touched:Connect(main)
The problem I find with that is, each marble is parented to the player’s character model, and so defining other_part and marble is tricky.
I’ve tried using local scripts to solve this but the RemoteEvents get tricky and out of sync with the client.
other_part is a parameter automatically passed whenever a part’s Touched event fires.
Therefore, you only need to define marble:
local PLYRS = game:GetService("Players")
for k, v in pairs(PLYRS) do
local character = v.Character or v.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local marble = character:FindFirstChild("marble")
while not marble do
marble = character:FindFirstChild("marble")
task.wait()
end
marble.Touched:Connect(function(other_part)
-- my code here
end)
This works on the assumption that you create the marble on PlayerAdded.
The marble is created on .CharacterAdded, but since you have v.CharacterAdded:Wait(), I think it will still work, I’ll test it out later, thank you for the help
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I’ve made a few edits to the script to try color and debounce, but otherwise it’s the same- not working. The print()s do not print (even "marble touched"), there are no errors, and nothing occurs- the red, Hot marble stays red and Hot, the white and not Hot marble stays white and not Hot.
local debounce = false
for i, v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do
local char = v.Character or v.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local marble = char:FindFirstChild("Marble")
while not marble do
marble = char:FindFirstChild("Marble")
task.wait()
end
marble.Touched:Connect(function(h)
print("marble touched")
if h.Name == "Marble" and debounce == false then
debounce = true
h:SetAttribute("Hot", not h:GetAttribute("Hot"))
marble:SetAttribute("Hot", not marble:GetAttribute("Hot"))
print(marble.Parent.Name.." is "..marble:GetAttribute("Hot"))
print(h.Parent.Name.." is "..h:GetAttribute("Hot"))
if h.Color == Color3.new(255,0,0) then
marble.Color = Color3.new(255,0,0)
h.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
elseif h.Color == Color3.new(255,255,255) and marble.Color == Color3.new(255,0,0) then
h.Color = Color3.new(255,0,0)
marble.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
end
task.wait(1)
debounce = false
end
end)
end
If your prints aren’t returning output, then your equality check has failed.
Is h.Name “Marble”; does debounce change values anywhere else?
Even "marble touched" doesn’t print though, meaning marble.Touched never fires
In which case, marble is nil, and the thread is caught at the while-true loop.
I’d recommend printing the values of v, char and marble before entering a loop.
