Tap to Pay Script (Broken)

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1

I’m not sure what’s wrong with this script, but this is a script that detects when a card touches a scanner, the value of the player’s cash (in leaderstats this is the currency BC$) to deplete by BC$ 2. This script doesn’t seem to work and I’m not sure why, it might be because of the Touched function or trying to find the player from their workspace instance to their Players service instance. Any ideas?

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Name == "card" then
		local name = part.Parent.Parent.Name
		local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(name)
		local ls = plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
		ls["BC$"].Value = ls["BC$"].Value - 2
	end
end)
2

I assume this is supposed to happen when the player equips that card, so -

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(Object)
	local isModel = Object:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("Model")
    local isHum = isModel:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if Object.Parent.Name == "card" then -- the tool's name 
        local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(isModel)
        if plr then
           plr.leaderstats["BC$"].Value -= 2
        end
    end
end)

Try this.

Explanation:
We’re checking if the object that touched the scanner is a descendant of a model[the character]
We’re also checking if that ancestor[the character] has a humanoid, if it does,
we then check the name of the card,[ the tool], and continue from there.

I also suggest putting a debounce, so that - it won’t subtract 2 BC$ from them too quickly.

3

It is supposed to trigger when the card part of your already equipped tool touches the scanner part which this script is inside of.

4

So the tool is equipped on you? If so, this script is supposed to work

5

Before I try fixing, here are some tips you can use:
Make sure you check output for any errors
Lua is case sensitive
Leaderstats can only be set from the server

Now, let’s try to fix this…

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Name == "card" then
if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local character = part.Parent
		local name = character.Name
		local plr = game.Players:WaitForChild(name)
		local ls = plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
		ls["BC$"].Value -= 2
	end
end
end)

Does it work?

6

Mabye it’s this:

local name = part.Parent.Parent.Name
local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(name)

I can’t tell if this is going to effect anything but would putting

local char = part.Parent.Parent
local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(char)

In its place change anything?

7

unfortunately this did not change anything

8

all of this seems not to work…

9

Yes, it is under the player in workspace not in PlayersService, but it does not work.

10

Just testing your og script and it’s working fine is can collide off or have you double checked spelling?

11

let’s see. I will turn CanCollide on on all parts… update when I’m done… I’ve checked everything and everything is already CanCollide on, maybe the problem is that it’s a local script?

12

[Fixed myself]
The problem was the script was a LocalScript not a server Script. Thanks for everyone trying to help me fix it but it was just a careless mistake.