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A Pet Follows You

Lesson 11 of 18 in Coddy's Roblox Game: Pet Simulator course.

Pets should follow you around. A new pet comes out at once if fewer than Settings.MaxEquipped (3) are out, marked with an Equipped attribute.

Each pet that is out gets a part in the world, a copy of its model from ServerStorage.PetModels, and every frame the server puts it behind its owner. RunService.Heartbeat fires once a frame, and multiplying CFrames places one relative to another:

model.CFrame = root.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, -1.5, 4) -- 4 studs behind, a little lower

A table remembers which part belongs to which pet, so a pet put away loses its part.

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Challenge

Medium
  1. Write equippedCount(player). Give givePet a third argument, equipped, stored as the Equipped attribute, and hatch with equippedCount(player) < Settings.MaxEquipped.
  2. Get RunService and local petParts = workspace.PetParts. On Heartbeat, for each player and each pet: if it is out (and the player has a character), make sure it has a part (a clone of ServerStorage.PetModels[pet.Value] in petParts) and put it at root.CFrame * CFrame.new((slot - 2) * 3, -1.5, 4), counting slots 1, 2, 3; if it is put away, destroy its part.

Press Play, hatch, and walk. Then Check.

Try it yourself

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local Settings = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Settings)

local remotes = game.ReplicatedStorage.Remotes
local piles = workspace.Piles
local pileSpot = {} -- each pile -> the spot it stands on
local lastHit = {} -- each player -> when they last hit

print("A Meadow pile gives " .. Settings.PileValue .. " coins")

-- Settings.Pets by name
local petInfo = {}
for _, info in Settings.Pets do
	petInfo[info.Name] = info
end

-- A pet: a StringValue in the player's Pets folder holding its name, with
-- its rarity and power as attributes
local function givePet(player, name)
	local info = petInfo[name]
	local pet = Instance.new("StringValue")
	pet.Name = "Pet"
	pet.Value = name
	pet:SetAttribute("Rarity", info.Rarity)
	pet:SetAttribute("Power", info.Power)
	pet.Parent = player.Pets
	return pet
end

-- Every player gets Coins on the leaderboard
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player

	local coins = Instance.new("IntValue")
	coins.Name = "Coins"
	coins.Parent = leaderstats

	-- the pets they own
	local pets = Instance.new("Folder")
	pets.Name = "Pets"
	pets.Parent = player
end)

-- A coin pile on a spot: a copy of ServerStorage.CoinPile with its health
-- and value as attributes
local function spawnPile(spot)
	local pile = ServerStorage.CoinPile:Clone()
	pile.Position = spot.Position
	pile:SetAttribute("MaxHealth", Settings.PileHealth)
	pile:SetAttribute("Health", Settings.PileHealth)
	pile:SetAttribute("Value", Settings.PileValue)
	pile.HealthGui.Label.Text = pile:GetAttribute("Health") .. "/" .. pile:GetAttribute("MaxHealth")
	pileSpot[pile] = spot
	pile.Parent = piles
	return pile
end

-- A hit takes 1 off a pile's health;
-- at 0 the pile breaks and pays its value
local function hitPile(player, pile)
	local health = pile:GetAttribute("Health") - 1
	if health > 0 then
		pile:SetAttribute("Health", health)
		pile.HealthGui.Label.Text = health .. "/" .. pile:GetAttribute("MaxHealth")
		return
	end
	player.leaderstats.Coins.Value += pile:GetAttribute("Value")
	local spot = pileSpot[pile]
	pileSpot[pile] = nil
	pile:Destroy()
	-- a new pile on the same spot, a few seconds later
	task.delay(Settings.RespawnTime, spawnPile, spot)
end

-- A pile on every spot in the Meadow
for _, spot in workspace.Zones.Meadow.Spawns:GetChildren() do
	spawnPile(spot)
end

-- The client asks to hit a pile. Never trust the client: anyone can fire
-- this remote with anything, from anywhere, as fast as they like.
remotes.Hit.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, pile)
	-- a real pile
	if typeof(pile) ~= "Instance" or pile.Parent ~= piles then
		return
	end
	-- in reach
	local character = player.Character
	local root = character and character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	if not root or (root.Position - pile.Position).Magnitude > Settings.Reach then
		return
	end
	-- not too fast
	local now = time()
	if lastHit[player] and now - lastHit[player] < Settings.HitCooldown then
		return
	end
	lastHit[player] = now
	hitPile(player, pile)
end)

-- A weighted roll: each pet's Chance (out of 100) is its share of the line
local function rollPet()
	local roll = math.random() * 100
	for _, info in Settings.Pets do
		roll -= info.Chance
		if roll <= 0 then
			return info.Name
		end
	end
	return Settings.Pets[1].Name
end

-- Hatching: the egg's prompt, paid for in coins
workspace.Egg.ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
	local coins = player.leaderstats.Coins
	if coins.Value < Settings.EggPrice then
		return
	end
	coins.Value -= Settings.EggPrice
	local name = rollPet()
	givePet(player, name)
	print(player.Name .. " hatched a " .. name)
end)
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