making a text lose 25 value per touch

[stark dove]

local Debounce = false
local text = script.Parent.Part.SurfaceGui.TextLabel.Text

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit and hit.Parent and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
if Debounce == false then
Debounce = true
print("hit")
script.Parent.Part.SurfaceGui.TextLabel.Text = text -25
wait(5)
print("no longer on debounce")
Debounce = false
end

end

end)

[royal kraken]

@stark dove what exactly are you trying to do?
Substract -25 from a value in the text?
Remove 25 characters from the text?

[stark dove]

vaæue

value

it starts at 100

then goes down

[royal kraken]

Ah then do:

TextLabel.Text.."(Your text)"..value - 25
Example:
TextLabel.Text.."Cash:"..value-25
value = value - 25```

[stark dove]

not really understanding what u mean

[royal kraken]

Ah it's only that text.

[stark dove]

yup

[royal kraken]

Then do:

TextLabel.Text = tonumber(TextLabel.Text)-25```

[crisp dew]

** You are now Level 6! **

[royal kraken]

@stark dove You understand what I'm doing or should I explain the code?

[stark dove]

not sure whjat to number is

never used it

[blissful heath]

[blissful heath]

you just said the meaning of it in that sentence

[stark dove]

yea but

i dont know how it works fully

[royal kraken]

It converts the string (text) to a number that you can use math one.

[sick hare]

tonumber converts a string into a number

[stark dove]

i see

ill add to to my notes thx

[blissful heath]

if the script can actually convert to a number, because you can't really convert a sentence to number to put in an int value or number value

[royal kraken]

The OP said the text is only the number (100).

[royal kraken]

^

[blissful heath]

well yeah but im not regarding the text which is only a number

[royal kraken]

The text is only a number tho.

[sick hare]

personally i would have a separate variable for a number rather that converting the string into a number and then back into a string. The all you need to do is concatenate the number with the string at it is much simpler.

[blissful heath]

im regarding any use case of tonumber

[royal kraken]

Concatenation can be done using value1..value2 or value1+value2 (for strings).

[sick hare]

ok?

[stark dove]

then what if it wasent only a number

[sick hare]

why are you telling that to me

[stark dove]

was planning to make it like health: 100

[royal kraken]

Then you would have to do something else.

Then you have to use a variable.

[royal kraken]

It was meant to explain it to the OP.

As the OP might not know the term.

[livid cave]

Needs more context

[stark dove]

wym

[royal kraken]

local number = 100
TextLabel.Text = "Health: "..number

[sick hare]

you should do ```lua
root.to.text = "HP: "..Humanoid.Health

[stark dove]

theres not a humanoid

its supposed to be for a wall breaking system

[sick hare]

?

[stark dove]

just not that far yet

[sick hare]

oh

[stark dove]

why 2 dots

[sick hare]

you could always add a number value inside the wall

[royal kraken]

That’s how you make it together.

[sick hare]

or even an attribute

[royal kraken]

I think you should explain what booth of these are, as the OP seems to be quite new to Lua.

[sick hare]

why?

ok

[stark dove]

yeah i am

im friends with alot of known devs but they refuse to teach me so

🤷‍♂️

[sick hare]

a number value is an object that can be added inside the wall

[stark dove]

i know u can add attributes inside a item

[sick hare]

it has a property inside it called "Value"

[stark dove]

just not sure how it works entirely

[sick hare]

you can set the value to a number

which could represent the wall's health

[stark dove]

right

[crisp dew]

** You are now Level 3! **

[stark dove]

could you make an example?

[sick hare]

or you could use an attribute inside the wall and make that a number value and that could represent hp instead

[sick hare]

💀

[dark terrace]

Plants vs zombies.

[stark dove]

how would i use that in the script though

[sick hare]

i'll send u a documentation

https://create.roblox.com/docs/studio/instance-attributes

[stark dove]

alright

thanks for the help

[sick hare]

(number value) https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/NumberValue

@ me if you need more help

[stark dove]

the attributes doesnt really show how to minus a value from it

only how to use it

[sick hare]

instance:SetAttribute("HP", instance:GetAttribute("HP")-1)

first parameter is the name of the value

and the second parameter is the actual value

[stark dove]

alright

thanks

im not sure what does instance do?

i omlu kmoe og it as instance.new

only know of it

[royal kraken]

Instance isn’t the thing that should actually be there. An instance is everything you can see in the explorer window.
A Humanoid is an instance.
A TextLabel is an instance.
A Part (referred to as wall by Majestic) is an instance.
Etc.

[stark dove]

so the thing he sent creates a attribute then minus it?

[royal kraken]

It sets the value of the Attribute to -1 of its previous value.

I would recommend checking out a tutorial on YouTube, as they can explain it better.

[stark dove]

youtube tutorials dont tend to be good from what ive done

wasted so much time on them and learned nothing

half of them dont know what theyre saying either

[royal kraken]

Alvin blox makes good ones.

Start with his beginners series.

[stark dove]

theyre mad lengthy

[royal kraken]

It takes time to learn a skill.

[stark dove]

not much to gain from those for me imo

[royal kraken]

You watched them in order?

[stark dove]

i watched like 2

[royal kraken]

The advanced are to hard to understand for a beginner.

[stark dove]

both were kinda just s tuff i alr knew

ill give em a shot

[royal kraken]

Then watch the next one.

[stark dove]

my friend is friends with him so

[royal kraken]

If you have questions feel free to ping me.

[stark dove]

hes been reccomending too

[stark dove]

alright

[eternal acorn]

Wont work if u dont update the value :)

[royal kraken]

Oh, was to quick with it.

[stark dove]

i tried to do it and i could not get it to work

ill go watch his vids now tho

[eternal acorn]

No just think about it kogically

Lets say you have the value at 100 right

What your code does is if you hit, the text becomes value-25 = 75

Now if u hit again.. it becomes value-25 = 75 again

U dont change the value soo

Ud either change the value itself or the 25 that u are subtracting by, by making it 25n

The later is harder tho

[stark dove]

which i do how

[eternal acorn]

Ud ideally want to subtract 25 from the value u are basing the HP or whatever from, then update the text

But if its something that u dont want to go below 0 u should also include a check for whether it wont become <0

[stark dove]

uh

[eternal acorn]

U didnt write this on your own am i correct

[stark dove]

i did

[eternal acorn]

Do yk variables?

[stark dove]

i combined a kill break script im very familiar with alongside a debounce system i like

[stark dove]

in what way

[eternal acorn]

Just like how to use and change them

[stark dove]

a little bit yea

[eternal acorn]

Yeah so what id do is make a health (or whatever) variable that would be a number and id decrease that number by 25 each time u wanted to decrease that

If u didnr know u can put variables into strings by so called concatenation

[stark dove]

alright

[eternal acorn]

local foo = 4
print("the variable is equal to " .. foo)

>> the variable is equal to 4

Make sure not to put the var name in quotes as that would turn it into a literal string, so it would not get the value but rather the text u named it as

[stark dove]

like this?

@eternal acorn

[eternal acorn]

mhm that looks pretty good

[stark dove]

didnt work tho

[crisp dew]

** You are now Level 4! **

[eternal acorn]

it shouldve

oh right u cant do what u did with the text variable

[stark dove]

oh

[eternal acorn]

basically what u did with the text variable is u copied the current text into it (Text is a property like health for humanoids)

what u want is a path variable so u wanna remove the .Text from the text variable

and u wanna do something like text.Text

[stark dove]

righttt

[eternal acorn]

or rename it to something better ideally (the variable)

for better readability

but yeah thats the issue

[stark dove]

it works

thanks man

[eternal acorn]

yeah np

[stark dove]

ill try to make the limit 0 now

[eternal acorn]

yeah gl, feel free to ask if u dont know

[stark dove]

could i add you if u dont mind?

[eternal acorn]

i mean sure

but honestly try to problem solve on your own first if u dont cuz it really helps in the long run

its practically impossible at first but necessary to be good

[stark dove]

alright

[eternal acorn]

especially with things like this where u just didnt know how the code would work

but yeah

gl with coding :D

[stark dove]

ty man

im trynna make it out here despite being stupid

[eternal acorn]

nah u arent stupid, everyone needed to learn

thats why coding is so well paid, cause its not easy :)

[stark dove]

feels like it

alot of my friends are high profile devs so its kinda hard to compare lol

[eternal acorn]

if u were learning a new language with a different logic u also wouldnt be able to do it fluently until you used it for hundreds or thousands of hours, thats what coding is

[eternal acorn]

u cant ever compare yourself to people

u dont know what theyve been through, its just a good demotivator

trust me lol i know it

[stark dove]

lmao

thanks for the motivation

[eternal acorn]

yeah no worries

feel free to dm me if u need to, my dms are always open

[stark dove]

right i guess coding language and languages are kinda similar in a way

[eternal acorn]

i may not respond soon but i will eventually

[eternal acorn]

yeah in a way

[stark dove]

alright i sent the friend request btw!

[eternal acorn]

especially once you learn the coding thinking learning other languages is so much easier

it took me about 2 years to learn python on a usable level, lua took me 50 minutes

theyre roughly similar in difficulty

[stark dove]

50`?

...

[eternal acorn]

yeah cause i already knew how to use everything, i just needed the syntax

[stark dove]

one of my dreams is to get to be point of being able to do commisions

[eternal acorn]

the syntax is not even that hard if u think about it, especially not since both lua and python are in the nice family with no {}; chars

[stark dove]

been a dream since i was a small child lmao

[eternal acorn]

it takes a while but u will eventually get there for sure

its the hardest near the end tbh

when u already "know" everything in theory but you cant really use it practically

[stark dove]

how would that be the hardest

if u know what it does u just gotta combine it

[eternal acorn]

its like when u learn a new equation in math but u dont know where to apply it

its the hardest to learn where to use the stuff uve learnt

and of course theres things that u are using right now that have other use cases than you can think of because u dont need it rn so yea

like the level between being okay and good

[stark dove]

true

[eternal acorn]

thats only learnt by practice

but yeah gl again, ill go now

[stark dove]

is that why theres alot of people here who can script yet never actually make anything?

[eternal acorn]

not really, im one of those people, its sort of lack of motivation and ideas

i turned into a perfectionist and i focus on one small thing too much to get it be faster by a little bit, which demotivates me cuz i seemingly make no progress

[stark dove]

I see

also i made it work

already

[eternal acorn]

thats one of those terrible habits u have to fight later on when u learn optimization

[eternal acorn]

niceee

[stark dove]

yeah i can see how that would happend

[eternal acorn]

gtg

[stark dove]

alright

goodbye

nvm doesnt really work

[stark dove]

@royal kraken happy birthday