petulant windmill refuses to give me cash

[shadow pollen]

uuh im pretty sure i may be really stupid and its like a 1 minute fix but i am quite inexperienced with coding and need a second set of eyes to help me out
so i have these windmill things that you can buy for your tycoon, when you buy them theyre just supposed to give you 1 cash every 0.2 seconds
they spin and they play sounds just fine, and when you load them in using saved data they do generate cash, but when you first buy them they give nothing ??
ive been rearranging and rewriting this code for way too much time and i just want to get it over with and i dont know why it refuses to work PLEASE HELP ME
i will answer questions and send whatever is asked of me

[shadow pollen]

the second while loop was my shoddy attempt at troubleshooting, i need to rewrite this

[strange silo]

print player and show me the result

like before you check if plr is nil

[shadow pollen]

hold

my studio crashed hold for longer please

are there any slurs that can be used against roblox studio

[strange silo]

idk 😭

[junior gorge]

hello

are you assigning the player value correctly?

as you buy the windmill, it IS assigned, right?

ah

[shadow pollen]

i think that may be the issue here

[junior gorge]

also, if the player value continues to be nil, the while loop will run forever and on potentially crashing things (i think they fixed this but its good to do this anyway)

[strange silo]

just print the player already 😭

[shadow pollen]

i used code from the tycoon core script

[junior gorge]

please add a wait inside your while loop to avoid crashing

[shadow pollen]

i think i may have fucked up the loop slightly and now it shoots studio

nvm

[strange silo]

cause ur loop is running with no delay it crashes

[shadow pollen]

exhausted allowed execution time

oops

[junior gorge]

add a wait

inside your first while loop

that means you arent assigning the player value correctly, probably

[shadow pollen]

okay joining game it starts off nil

expected

though it shouldnt be running so early

[junior gorge]

double check where you're assigning the player value, and add a wait inside the first while loop

[shadow pollen]

i added the wait

[junior gorge]

you could do
if player ~= nil then
--code
else
task.wait(1)
end

[shadow pollen]

upon claiming the tycoon it retrieved save data and the player data was correctly assigned to me

let me reset the tycoon

[junior gorge]

so it wont crash anymore

[shadow pollen]

upon reset it printed my info out again

hold

[junior gorge]

okeh

[shadow pollen]

if i buy it

[strange silo]

local player = values.OwnerValue.Value
if not player then
    player = values.OwnerValue:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Wait()
end

do something like this if it runs to early

[shadow pollen]

no cash increase

fuck

it finds the player correctly but

no increase in moneys

[junior gorge]

please send the code that runs when you buy the windmill and set the players value

[strange silo]

he just said the player is correct 🙏

[junior gorge]

what

for real??

[shadow pollen]

stupid infernal windmill

[junior gorge]

but it works when you load it from a save

no?

[shadow pollen]

correct

[junior gorge]

are there any errors in output?

and can you show me your current code

[shadow pollen]

local values = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Values
local center = script.Parent.Build:FindFirstChild("Center")

local ambience = script.Parent:WaitForChild("WindmillAmbience")

ambience.Parent = center
ambience:Play()

while true do
task.wait()
local player = values.OwnerValue.Value
print(player)
if player ~= nil then
while true do
local WINDMILL_TIME = 0.15 + math.random() * 0.1
player.leaderstats.Electrons.Value += 1
task.wait(WINDMILL_TIME)
end
end
end

current

my droppers and furnace and everything work fine so i am very confused

[junior gorge]

when you print player, it's just fine?

[shadow pollen]

it prints this

now when i loaded the tycoon it didnt even print player yet it still gives me cash ????

[junior gorge]

hm

[shadow pollen]

upon resetting it does print the player

[junior gorge]

where is this script, by the way?

[shadow pollen]

yet it only prints once

[lavish star]

** You are now Level 4! **

[junior gorge]

oh it's in the windmill

[shadow pollen]

correct

[junior gorge]

gosh

[shadow pollen]

I JUST WANT IT TO CONSTANTLY ADD CASH TO THE TYCOON WITHOUT ANY PARTS BEING DROPPED

WHY DOES IT DO THIS

do i have to rewrite the entire thing

interestingly the windmill even manages to add cashonce or twice after resetting, so you just start off with 2 cash instead of 0

[junior gorge]

when does the value get set?

the player value

[shadow pollen]

when the player claims the tycoon door

or when the player resets the tycoon, where it sets the value for the cloned tycoon that replaces the original

[junior gorge]

when does it start working?

[shadow pollen]

when the windmills are bought, get saved to serverstorage and when the player reconnects and claims the tycoon again

[junior gorge]

and you set the player value all the same?

the electrons value exists by then, right?

it gets created when the player joins?

[shadow pollen]

electrons = cash in this case

electrons value gets created when the player joins as leaderstats is in serverscriptservice

[junior gorge]

local values = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Values
local center = script.Parent.Build:FindFirstChild("Center")

local ambience = script.Parent:WaitForChild("WindmillAmbience")

ambience.Parent = center
ambience:Play()

while true do
task.wait()
local player = values.OwnerValue.Value
print(player)
if player ~= nil then
print('Ran!')
while true do
local success, error = pcall(function()
local WINDMILL_TIME = 0.15 + math.random() * 0.1
player.leaderstats.Electrons.Value += 1
end)
print(error)
task.wait(WINDMILL_TIME)
end
end
end

try ts

tell me what shows up in output

sorry for the ass formatting im on mobile 🙏

[shadow pollen]

thank you

let me see

[strange silo]

could we please wrap the while true do function inside a

task.spawn(function()

)

😭

[shadow pollen]

starting console

nil is the player value that hasnt been set

really not sure why the second error takes place but it doesnt cause issues so ill deal with it later

[junior gorge]

oh shit i have made an error 🙏

[junior gorge]

its not that but uh

[shadow pollen]

electrons are going up a mile a minute and somethings getting printed as nil

[junior gorge]

yeahyeah

[lavish star]

** You are now Level 9! **

[junior gorge]

my bad 🙏

[shadow pollen]

upon resetting, it does say "Ran!"

[strange silo]

WHY THE FUCK ARE WE NOT USING THE REGULAR CONSOLE LIKE EVERYTHING IS SO ASS HERE

[junior gorge]

local values = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Values
local center = script.Parent.Build:FindFirstChild("Center")

local ambience = script.Parent:WaitForChild("WindmillAmbience")

ambience.Parent = center
ambience:Play()

local WINDMILL_TIME = .15

while true do
task.wait()
local player = values.OwnerValue.Value
print(player)
if player ~= nil then
print('Ran!')
while true do
local success, error = pcall(function()
local WINDMILL_TIME = 0.15 + math.random() * 0.1
player.leaderstats.Electrons.Value += 1
end)
print(success)
task.wait(WINDMILL_TIME)
end
end
end

[shadow pollen]

this was after resetting

no input from the windmills

[junior gorge]

LMFAO EVEN MY FORMATTING

[junior gorge]

dawg

[shadow pollen]

why is windmill time defined twice

[junior gorge]

oh FUCK

change the local WINDMILL_TIME inside the while loop to just

WINDMILL_TIME

🙏

[strange silo]

yall gotta calm the fuck down this aint going anywhere fr

[shadow pollen]

which while true

[junior gorge]

the windmillambience

is just not there apparently

[shadow pollen]

yet i heard it

[junior gorge]

💀

[shadow pollen]

unless it never stopped ???

i need to tamper

[junior gorge]

maybe it was parented late

I have no idea

does it fucking work 😭

instead of redefining the windmilltime I wanted to just update it

[shadow pollen]

ignore the buttons ill fix them in a second

this was loading save data

[junior gorge]

it seems to be successful??

[shadow pollen]

so far so good

now to reset and to try and buy new

[junior gorge]

you changed it to update windmill time right

[shadow pollen]

i currently just left windmill time to .15

okay it doesnt play any audio after resetting

now i will proceed to buy

[junior gorge]

LMAO

oh I thought it broke

[shadow pollen]

shit straight up does NOTHING after resetting

💔 💔 💔

[strange silo]

LastFlareZ

does anything work rn

[shadow pollen]

zyos

define

[junior gorge]

show output

[strange silo]

local values = script.Parent.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Values")
local ownerValue = values:FindFirstChild("OwnerValue")

local center = script.Parent.Build:FindFirstChild("Center")
local ambience = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("WindmillAmbience")

if center and ambience then
    ambience.Parent = center
    ambience:Play()
else
    print("abience or center not found")
end

local running = nil

local function startGenerating(player)
    if not player then print("player not found") return end

    running = task.spawn(function()
        print("started while loop")
        while ownerValue.Value == player do
            local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
            local electrons = leaderstats and leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Electrons")
            if not electrons then print("electrons not found") break end

            electrons.Value += 1
            task.wait(0.15 + math.random() * 0.1)
        end
    end)
end

if ownerValue.Value then
    print("player is currently assigned")
    startGenerating(ownerValue.Value)
end

ownerValue:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
    running = nil
    if ownerValue.Value then
        print("player is currently assigned")
        startGenerating(ownerValue.Value)
    end
end)

[junior gorge]

🙏

[strange silo]

use this

and show me the console

[junior gorge]

gogo

[shadow pollen]

ai caramba what is that

okay

okay good no ugly nil player checking when i start

[strange silo]

task.spawn(function()
)

is just there that you can do stuff in the script below and the while true loop runs next to the script

[strange silo]

what does the console say

[shadow pollen]

success ???????

electron count is rising

[junior gorge]

peak

[strange silo]

does everything work?

[junior gorge]

i have no idea what the error was LMAO

cya

[shadow pollen]

okay so

[lavish star]

** You are now Level 5! **

[shadow pollen]

i reset my tycoon

the red stuff appeared when it set my player value

second one is when i bought it

except

i could hear the ambience and im pretty sure it was parented to center????

very strange

now i looked back and it was increasing

i am so confused

THE CODE WORKS

THANK YOU

[strange silo]

np

[shadow pollen]

now how do i clean it up so theres none of these strange prints

[strange silo]

lemme explain the task.spawn thing again incase you wanna edit the script

this is a while true loop with task.spawn

task.spawn(function()
  while true do
    task.wait()
  end
)

print("i will instantly run")

this is a while true loop with no task.spawn

while true do
  task.wait()
end

print("i will never run")

[shadow pollen]

curious

[strange silo]

idk its more of an advanced thing but its pretty useful

[shadow pollen]

i will research this more

thank you

this was horrific to deal with but i am at peace now

[flint mirage]

jeez, what a mess

[shadow pollen]

rat poison

[flint mirage]

well u get what u pay for with these free tycoon scripts 🤷

[shadow pollen]

i am breaking those scripts to fit my image

i came in with zero coding knowledge

i am constructing some seriously freaky yet functional shit now

[strange silo]

scripting your own tycoon framework aint even that hard i think you could learn it in a week or two

[shadow pollen]

likely

[flint mirage]

you are stitching code, copy+pasting existing code and trying to bodge your way into something that kind-of works. most people can do that... until something breaks that you cannot fix or want to do something that doesn't already exist, as you have experienced here, and then the whole thing starts to unravel ;p

[shadow pollen]

flourish my constructs

[flint mirage]

you'd do yourself many favors by learning the language from the ground up 👍 https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals

[shadow pollen]

i started off with that, now ive memorized enough to actively construct something that seems pretty good (until its A FUCKING WINDMILL (FUCK))

[strange silo]

pyro fire you are a poet

[shadow pollen]

i do get issues frequently but usually its not as severe as this and i can fix them with little issue

[flint mirage]

if i were a poet, i for one wouldn't know it.

[shadow pollen]

it seems fine for now but i might need to do a code efficiency consult later just to make sure everythings going dashing

[strange silo]

you are nearly as cool as herman but herman is a lil cooler then you

[shadow pollen]

political

[flint mirage]

well no better opportunity to work on your debugging skills which is just prints, breakpoints, and visual indicators (spawning parts to show stuff). never assume any of your code works until you can prove it is working usually with prints.

and if there's some particular thing not working, trace it from start to end, prove each step.

just for future

[shadow pollen]

i think ill have to do a bit of debugging for these creatures

[flint mirage]

just dont fall into the humanoid.movetofinished:wait() newb trap https://create.roblox.com/docs/characters/pathfinding

[strange silo]

fuck pathfinding 😭

[flint mirage]

skill issue 😎

[strange silo]

[shadow pollen]

for now the zombies are partly stolen code but with damage and flinch and attack animations and sounds and other shit added on

i need to research how to turn it into more of 'my' code

[strange silo]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals

WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS PYRO LIKE THERE IS LEGIT NOT A SINGLE WAY TO GET THERE WITHOUT HAVING THE LINK

[shadow pollen]

if theres any issue im having with them, its that (if i understand correctly) the idle animation attempts to play mid-walk animation, resetting it

i temporarily removed the thing in the code that sets the idle and it did let the whole walk animation play out, just looked jank because of the idle not playing when its actually required

[flint mirage]

well for starters you can just search for those pages

[strange silo]

but like it would be so much more useful if this is somewhere to find in the docs

[flint mirage]

second yeah it's a bit of a maze but the info is there if you look for it and just keep reading stuff https://create.roblox.com/docs/scripting

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/curriculums/core

[strange silo]

the docs are organzised so ass

[flint mirage]

so the animation stuff is usually just a state machine with code to switch between states. if things are playing out of order then the logic is going wrong somewhere, so what you'd do is trace/debug/prove all the code that is near the walk animation play code, as well as stuff that deals with walk states like humanoid.running or movedirection changed etc.

[shadow pollen]

noted

[flint mirage]

like for every walkanimtrack:Play(), put a print next to it so you know the code is running

and if its running when it shouldn't be well you've just found your problem 👍

prints really are that powerful.

point is it may look like high level scripters magically know how to write code perfectly the first time but that's not true, it's just a lot of practice. trial and error, and a lot of it, is normal 👍

[strange silo]

like i said hes a poet

[shadow pollen]

good

that really is most strange

the "running" is it playing its walk animation

im really not sure why it does so

it looks really ugly