Awarding Badges in Testing

[teal root]

yo, just wanna test out a badge adding system, but i wanna be able to do try it with every time i test the game. is there a way i can make sure the game resets my badges every time i test it?

note that i haven't tested adding badges yet, so this all could very well reset automatically, but i wanna double check before i test it

[iron timber]

once a player has a badge you can not rereward it without removing it from your inventory, but you could use print statements in place of that

did the player get the badge, print("got badge")

[teal root]

yus, have done that, but i wanna also have an extra message pop up for when you get the badge (like in grace or smth). figuring i could do this by having the game check if you didn't have the badge before before doing the action, so i can only try it once

ofc i can make it a separate event, but in the end, i still technically wouldn't be able to test it without going through some complications

[iron timber]

as in a ui prompt

thats not from rblx?

[teal root]

like uhh

one sec lemme just find a video that has that

[iron timber]

ok

[teal root]

like this (top right corner, 0:08 in case the timestamp doesn't work) https://youtu.be/_PLXQLbhVdM?si=Ue-Oy77I9wDPgs5I&t=8

[iron timber]

thats a custom ui prompt they made themselves

if you make one yourself you can prompt it as many times as you want

[teal root]

yeah that's what i meant, but i wanted the game to check if you have those badges instead of making internal save data, since i think that would be a bit redundant

especially having the "awarded" thing, i wouldn't want it to happen every time you do the action

[iron timber]

just use the badge as the progression check

dont duplicate it with your own data

and for testing you can temporarilt bypass that check with a test flag

so you can trigger it without re awarding the badge

[teal root]

yeah, that makes sense, thanks 🙏

[hallow hill]

you have to make a handler for it