I keep getting a trying to set locked parent error in this script please help thanks.
local ballTool = game.ReplicatedStorage.Dodgeball:Clone()
local me = script.Parent
me.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local hasBall = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent).IMFOLDER.hasBall.Value
if hasBall == false then
ballTool.Parent = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent).Backpack
hit.Parent.Humanoid:EquipTool(ballTool)
end
end
end)
It seems that everything is valid though unless im just overlooking something? is there anything else that causes this error? Because the ball from rep storage is going to the player who touched it backpack so
Not too sure about this since I’m on mobile now. But I made a guess.
Did you set the value of hasBall to true after the Player picked the ball? Else it will continue the loop forever. Also instead of doing if hasBall == false you can just do if not hasBall
Another thing that might be causing the bug is letting the player equip the tool right after parenting it to his backpack. Instead you can just parent the tool directly to the player’s character, which will do the same.
Bonus: It’s preferred to store the results of Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter() in a variable.
Hope this helps, or if it fails I will follow up later today.
That error usually occurs on destroyed parts. When Destroy() is called on a part, it is parented to nil and the parent is locked. However, I have not seen the error you are getting (usually, it says, thing tried to set locked parent of thing to thing, current parent is thing, something along those lines, and I think it’s an error and not a warning)
It’s likely caused by Humanoid:EquipTool() (which also might be why the error is different), I think it acts weird when trying to equip it when it already is? I ran into a weird bug once that occurred when picking up a tool from the ground, and I think the fix was to check if the parent of the tool was the character, and if it was, to not call EquipTool()
You are also parenting it to the packback then using EquipTool which is not ideal
It seems that even without the script and using two dodgeball tools (which are automatically picked up) I still get the same error and the ball throwing script doesn’t work right (it throws it from the wrong location towards the mouse)
It seems that even without the script and using two dodgeball tools (which are automatically picked up) I still get the same error and the ball throwing script doesn’t work right (it throws it from the wrong location towards the mouse). I would rather try to do this without the script at this point.
--local script
local remoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.Throw
local BallRemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.SpawnNewBall
local tool = script.Parent
local cam = workspace.CurrentCamera
local maxZoom = 25
local minZoom = 50
local plrStrength = game.Players.LocalPlayer.IMFOLDER.PlayerStrength.Value
local ogplrStrength = plrStrength -- Does not change because it is the strength that zooming out reverts to
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local plrPos = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
local mousePos = player:GetMouse().Hit.p
local throwAnim = script:WaitForChild("Throwing")
local thowingAnim = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(throwAnim)
local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://15540379440"
local animationTrack = player.Character.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)
-- TOOL IS USED HERE
tool.Activated:Connect(function()
mousePos = player:GetMouse().Hit.p
remoteEvent:FireServer(mousePos, plrStrength)
game.Players.LocalPlayer.IMFOLDER.hasBall.Value = false
print(game.Players.LocalPlayer.IMFOLDER.hasBall.Value)
tool:Destroy()
animationTrack:Stop()
BallRemoteEvent:FireServer()
repeat wait()
cam.FieldOfView += 1
until cam.FieldOfView >= minZoom
end)
--TOOL IS GRABBED HERE
tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local pressed = false
game.Players.LocalPlayer.IMFOLDER.hasBall.Value = true
print(game.Players.LocalPlayer.IMFOLDER.hasBall.Value)
--ZOOMING IS STARTED
userInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, isTyping)
if not isTyping then
if input.UserInputType== Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
if not pressed then
pressed = true
animationTrack:Play()
repeat wait()
cam.FieldOfView -= 1
plrStrength += 2
until not pressed or cam.FieldOfView <= maxZoom
end
end
end
end)
--ZOOMING IS STOPPED
userInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input, isTyping)
if not isTyping then
if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
pressed = false
animationTrack:Stop()
repeat wait()
cam.FieldOfView += 1
plrStrength = ogplrStrength
until pressed or cam.FieldOfView >= minZoom
end
end
end)
end)
