Assign a cave when player joins

[sharp bison]

create a folder where you have all of the caves stored, then use a for loop on folder:GetChildren() and check whether or not the cave is occupied, if it isn't then pivot the character to the cave and mark it as occupied

to display their name over the top of the cave you could either use a surface gui or billboard gui but surface gui would be better i think

[solid spade]

okay i had a folder with the caves already , what youre explaining now is something that goes under ServerScriptService? im really new so bare with me 😅

[bleak lichen]

** You are now Level 1! **

[sharp bison]

yes it would be in a script in serverscriptservice

you would do the player added event using the players service

and then iterate through the folder

[solid spade]

sorry i might have to do a little more research before i try this

i dont think i know enough to do this yet

thank you anyway though 🥹

[sharp bison]

youre welcome

you should probably watch brawldev

he has good tutorials

[solid spade]

thanks ill check him out!

[sharp bison]

do you want me to give you the code for this now or do you want to figure out how to do it yourself, i personally think the second option is better though

[solid spade]

i think seeing how the code actually looks laid out would help me understand it more , so if you can that would be great!

im not gonna copy and paste it in my game ill just use it for reference , id like to make all my scripts myself to get a better understanding of it all

[sharp bison]

wait let me format it

--[[
Before doing this, in the workspace.Caves folder, make sure that every cave model has a 
boolvalue underneath it named Occupied set to false
Also make sure that you create a spawn location for each cave
]]

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- we are getting the players service
local cavesFolder = workspace.Caves -- we are referencing the caves folder in workspace

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- this event "PlayerAdded" fires every single time a player joins the game and passes the player
    for _, cave : Model in cavesFolder:GetChildren() do -- get children returns all of the children of the caves folder, like cave1, cave2, etc.
        local occupied : BoolValue = cave:FindFirstChild("Occupied") -- we then get the occupied boolvalue that is a child of the cave
        local spawnLocation = cave:FindFirstChildOfClass("SpawnLocation") -- as well as the spawn location
        
        if not occupied.Value then -- this checks whether or not the cave is occupied, it essentially means, if occupied.Value == false, which means is this cave occupied?
            occupied.Value = true -- if it is not occupied, then we make it occupied, by setting the value to true
            player.RespawnLocation = spawnLocation -- we set the player's respawn location to the spawn location, so that every time they die, they get teleported to that spawn location
            local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait() -- this gets the character model of the player, or prevents the following line of code from running until the character has fully loaded into the game
            character:PivotTo(spawnLocation.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, spawnLocation.Size.Y, 0)) -- we move the character model to the position of the spawnLocation + the size of it on the y axis
        end
    end
end)

[remote bough]

all dat in 1 min

[sharp bison]

9 minutes

[bleak lichen]

** You are now Level 5! **

[sharp bison]

i think

[remote bough]

alr

[sharp bison]

hopefully the comments make sense idk i tried explaining it the best way i can

[solid spade]

i was just about to say the comments are so helpful , thanks a lot for this!

[sharp bison]

if you get an error you might have skipped a step in the instructions in the beginning

[solid spade]

so i should have seperate "SpawnLocation" under all of my cave models? the ones that say Cave1 Cave2 etc?

[sharp bison]

yea so that the owner of that cave can respawn in that same place

unless you dont want to do that then you can just remove those lines

[solid spade]

im sorry but do you think you can explain this line a little for me?

for _, cave : Model in cavesFolder:GetChildren() do

[bleak lichen]

** You are now Level 2! **

[solid spade]

everything else is making sense to me now though

its this specific part that i dont really understand

_, cave : Model

whats the underscore doing here?

[solid spade]

okay i actually understand the code you made now , you can disregard that last question i asked

[sharp bison]

_ is a place holder or unused variable

[solid spade]

i ended up using your code and just made different comments more suitable for me to remember what everything means , i couldnt figure out how to make this script myself without just doing what you did , assuming there are other ways to do this

[sharp bison]

but if you did end up using it it would give you the current index in the loop

do you know for loops?

[solid spade]

yeah i learned about them a bit when learning python

[sharp bison]

so instead of using for i in range you do for i =

like this:

python:
for i in range(1, 6):
print(i)

lua:
for i = 1, 5 do
print(i)
end

[solid spade]

ohhhh i get it

thank you for all the help!

im gonna close this for now 😄 thanks again for helping me understand scripting a bit more