Hi, I’m writing a piece of code for a shop GUI in my game and when I clone a tool to the players backpack, it appears as if the children of the tool have “disappeared”. I have no idea why it would be doing this, and I have tried to yield the script to make sure the tool has loaded properly, but it still doesn’t work.
The tool works perfectly fine when placed in starter pack, just not when it is cloned.
I am cloning the tool from a server script.
This is my code:
SERVER SCRIPT:
repstorage.events.ItemPurchase.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, itemName)
if servstorage:WaitForChild(itemName) then
local price = servstorage[itemName].Price.Value
local currencyStore = DataStore2("currency", player)
if currencyStore:Get(defaultmoney) >= price then
currencyStore:Increment(-price)
local item = servstorage:WaitForChild(itemName)
item:Clone()
item.Parent = player.Backpack
end
end
end)
CLIENT SCRIPT:
local servstorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local repstorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local clickDetector = game.Workspace.rocketshop.ClickDetector
clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
if not players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("PurchaseConfirmation") then
local itemName = clickDetector.Parent.Item.Value
if not players.LocalPlayer.Backpack:FindFirstChild(itemName) then
local gui = repstorage.Gui.PurchaseConfirmation:Clone()
gui.Parent = players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
gui.Frame.Confirm.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
repstorage.events.ItemPurchase:FireServer(itemName)
gui:Destroy()
end)
gui.Frame.Cancel.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
gui:Destroy()
end)
end
end
end)
Oh, it seems like you might be trying to call the Equip method on a non-Tool object. Double-check that the object you’re trying to equip is actually a Tool and not something else.
Can you show the code from “RocketLauncher.Client”?
The object is definitely a tool, and the “Equip” part is a bool value that is a child of the tool.
RocketLauncher.Client:
local Tool = script.Parent
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Char = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(Player.Name)
local Humanoid = Char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Remote = Tool:WaitForChild("MouseLoc")
local Enabled = Tool.Equip
local Mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
local anim = Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Animation)
local cam = workspace.Camera
local fovMax = { FieldOfView = 70 - 40 }
local fovMin = { FieldOfView = 70 }
local thing = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
local tweencc = game.TweenService:Create(thing, TweenInfo.new(0.4, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine), fovMax)
local tween2cc = game.TweenService:Create(thing, TweenInfo.new(0.4, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine), fovMin)
function Remote.OnClientInvoke()
return Mouse.Hit.p
end
Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
anim:Play()
Enabled.Value = true
end)
Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
anim:Stop()
Enabled.Value = false
end)
local function onInputBegan(input, process)
if (process) then return; end
if (input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2) and Enabled.Value == true then
end
end
local function onInputEnded(input, process)
if (process) then return; end
if (input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2) and Enabled.Value == true then
end
end
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(onInputBegan);
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputEnded:Connect(onInputEnded);
The only thing I can think of is that it’s mistaking Tool.Equip as some sort of event call instead of a path for a property. Does adding :WaitForChild(“Equip”) fix it?
Would it not be worth setting Enabled to false in the script, completely removing the BoolValue, and then set Enabled to true/false on Equipping the tool?
I tried that but other children of the tool are also missing, it’s not just the BoolValue. I believe the only parts of the tool that exist after it is cloned are the scripts and the parts that are welded to the handle, which isn’t what I am really looking for as the BoolValue and parts like the MouseLoc are needed for parts of my scripts to work.
Also, the tool works perfectly fine when just placed in the starterpack and used that way, it’s just when it is cloned that it breaks this way…
