Variables not storing values

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1

I’m trying to make an orb that spawns when a pad is touched
The problem was the padTouched variable i created which for some reason didn’t work

local padTouched = room.Touched.Value

When i use it in an If statement it seems to not store the value

	if humanoid and isTouched == false and padTouched == true then

But if i remove the .Value from the variable and put .Value in the if statment it works

local room = orb.Parent

	if humanoid and isTouched == false and padTouched.Value == true then

My code:

 -- Orb
local orb = script.Parent
local room = orb.Parent
local padTouched = room.Touched
local isTouched = false

local function heal(hit)
	local character = hit.Parent
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local health = humanoid.Health
	if humanoid and isTouched == false and padTouched.Value == true then
		if health < 100 then
			isTouched = true
			
			if health < 75 then
				health = 75 -- Set HP to 75
			else
				health += 20 -- Add 20 HP
			end
			
			room["Tutorial sign"].TextPart.SurfaceGui.TextLabel.Text = "Also you can't collect it if you have full HP"
			room["Tutorial sign"].TextPart.SurfaceGui.TextLabel.TextSize = 25
			
			orb:Destroy()
		end
	end
end

orb.Touched:Connect(heal)
2

Not sure what the problem is, though adding .Value to your variables will most likely break your code. Not sure why this happens.

3

I always never get the .Value of a value of some sort because when you call that variable, it is going to only get the value it was given at the start of the script.

Like when you are logically comparing that variable, you are actually not updating that variable. You would just be calling on it so lets say you did

local won = leaderstats.alive.Value

Then you did your fancy code while the player actually died and you change the won value on a different script, but you never updated the value in this script, and so at some point after the round you want to detect if the player was alive.
But the value true that has been set to that variable at the beginning was set there since you never updated it accordingly. To fix this you would have to do for example

won = leaderstats.alive.Value
and then your logical comparisons.

I hope this makes sense, but also I’m on mobile and the formatting for me can get challenging!

4

I don’t know how changing it to a global variable will help

5

I’m not changing it to a global variable I’m just reassigning the current value to that variable. For like your scenario,

local padTouched = room.Touched.Value

—inside the function

padTouched = room.Touched.Value
and then you do your if statement comparison.

Basically I recommend

local padTouched = room.Touched
and then stating .Value in the comparison like you have it in the code aection above.