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How do I fire an event to the client using a server script?

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RichCookieGamer 7

3 years ago

Edited 3 years ago

This script is supposed to get the player inside and deal damage to them, but also makes them flinch. I'm trying to use a RemoteEvent to tell the player that's being damaged to start the flinch animation.

My script errors and says: Unable to cast value to object I am also using a pcall in case it does error which it did.

Server Script

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local combatEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("combat")

local dmg = 5
local hitboxSize = 2

combatEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, action, V1)
    local character = player.Character

    if action == "combat" then
        local Region = Region3.new(V1 - Vector3.new(hitboxSize,hitboxSize,hitboxSize),V1 + Vector3.new(hitboxSize,hitboxSize,hitboxSize))
        local RTable = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(Region, nil, 100)

        local prt = Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace)
        prt.Anchored = true
        prt.CanCollide = false
        prt.CFrame = Region.CFrame
        prt.Size = Region.Size
        game.Debris:AddItem(prt,1)

        local Deb = "Deb"
        local Humanoid = "Humanoid"
        print("Running")
        for i,v in pairs(RTable) do
            if v.Parent:findFirstChild(Humanoid) and v.Parent:findFirstChild(Deb) == nil and v.Parent ~= character then
                print("Hit")
                local Deb = Instance.new("BoolValue", v.Parent)
                Deb.Name = tostring(Deb)
                game.Debris:AddItem(Deb,.2)

                local enemyName = v.Parent.Name
                local enemyCombat = v.Parent:GetChildren()

                print(enemyName)

                local success, response = pcall(combatEvent.FireClient, combatEvent, "Player1")
                print(success, " - Error: ",response)

                v.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(dmg)

                break
            end
        end
    end
end)

Local Script

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local combatEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("combat")

local canAttack = true

local function flinch()
    canAttack = false

    print("I should be flinching ")
    canAttack = true
end

combatEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(flinch)

You might be asleep right now, but could you tell me which line the error occurs on? Neatwyy 123 — 3y

1 answer

Answered by

Sarturex857 109

3 years ago

Edited 3 years ago

You should use :FireClient() to fire a event to a client or :FireServer() to fire a event to the whole server.

I'll make a little example of how to use it(with :FireClient())

-- server script

local event -- type here the location of the RemoteEvent

local ClickDetector = workspace.Part.ClickDetector

ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
event:FireClient(plr) -- you will always need the client as the first parameter when firing a event from the server because the event needs to know to what player it should fire the event(you will not need to do this with :FireServer())
end)

-- local script

local event 
local plr = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer

event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function() -- you will not need the player parameter here because you can get the player with LocalPlayer
print('hello from the server to the client '.. plr.Name..’!')
end)

Where you write plr in FireClient() you have to have the player name or the actual player under Players in the Explorer? RichCookieGamer 7 — 3y

I still get the same error RichCookieGamer 7 — 3y

you need to write whatever is best for you in the script, and also you would need the player instance inside the :FireClient() parameters Sarturex857 109 — 3y

and I actually made a little mistake, I forgot to add “..” to plr.Name, I fixed it. Sarturex857 109 — 3y

How do I fire an event to the client using a server script?

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