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Script works in solo mode but not on servers?

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ghostblocks 74
9 years ago

Finished making a 'drowning' script that runs when your head is inside this brick, and makes a 'waterblur' Gui visible that basically puts a blue tint on your screen like you're underwater and another Gui pops up that is your air meter, and when it runs out you slowly start taking damage. When I run the script in Play Solo it works perfectly, but when I start a server and test it out, it doesn't work, and there isn't any errors in the output. Here is the script:

script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
    local air=1
    if hit.Name == "Head" then
        game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Waterblur.Frame.Visible = true
        game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible = true
        while wait(.1) do
            air = air - 0.01
            game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(air, 0, 1, 0)
            if game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible == false then
                game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
                break
            end
            if air <= 0 then
                repeat
                    hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health = hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health - 10
                    wait(1)
                until hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health == 0 or game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible == false
                break
            end
        end
    end
end)



script.Parent.TouchEnded:connect(function(hit)
    if hit.Name == "Head" then
        game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Waterblur.Frame.Visible = false
        game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible = false
    end
end)

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Answered by
Lacryma 548 Moderation Voter
9 years ago

You're doing something really wrong here. The reason this worked in solo is because everything is ran locally there, meaning you're not testing the server.

  1. For the Touched event, this is ran in the server, meaning you cannot assign it to a local script rather use a server script.

  2. You cannot use LocalPlayer in a serverscript.

Solution:

script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
    local air=1
    if hit.Name == "Head" then
        local plr - game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
        if plr then
            plr.PlayerGui.Waterblur.Frame.Visible = true
            plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible = true
            while wait(.1) do
                air = air - 0.01
                plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(air, 0, 1, 0)
                if plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible == false then
                    plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
                    break
                end
                if air <= 0 then
                    repeat
                        hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health = hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health - 10
                        wait(1)
                    until hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health == 0 or plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible == false
                    break
                end
            end
        end
    end
end)



script.Parent.TouchEnded:connect(function(hit)
    if hit.Name == "Head" then
        local plr - game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
        if plr then
            plr.PlayerGui.Waterblur.Frame.Visible = false
            plr.PlayerGui.Drown.Frame.Visible = false
        end
    end
end)
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Alright, it worked. I see my mistake, sorry about that still a little new to the whole local/server thing :P. So basically in a local script you would want to get the player using LocalPlayer and in a server script use GetPlayerFromCharacter? ghostblocks 74 — 9y
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Answered by
chess123mate 5873 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
9 years ago

The problem is that you're using "LocalPlayer" on a script whose ancestor is the Workspace. That means that this script is treated like a server script. Even if you've made this a LocalScript, it won't run.

You have two options:

  1. You can simply make this a LocalScript, put it inside game.StarterGui, and change the first line to be "game.Workspace.Water.Touched" (or whatever the path to your part is).

  2. Split the script into a server-side script and a client-side script. The server would be responsible for telling the client when the client enters and leaves water, and also for telling the client how much air is left. The client would just be responsible for updating the gui. You would need to use RemoteEvents to transmit this information.

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