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Can you detect a key input on a server script?
The question says it all. I want to do this because I want a function on the server script to be activated when a key is pressed. How would I make this possible? This is the method that I tried(this was on the server side script)
1 | function onKeyPress(input) |
2 | if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.R then |
3 | Reload() |
4 | end |
5 | end |
6 |
7 | game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:connect(onKeyPress) |
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Well, UIS won't work on the server, so try using RemoteEvents or RemoteFunctions.
They are pretty similar, the main difference being RFunctions can return values and are accessed as functions instead of events. Example of both:
LocalScript
1 | local reloadEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.ReloadEvent -- etc. etc. |
2 |
3 | function onKeyPress(input) |
4 | if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.R then |
5 | reloadEvent:FireServer() -- or reloadFunction:InvokeServer() |
6 | end |
7 | end |
8 |
9 | game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:connect(onKeyPress) |
ServerScript
01 | local reloadEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.ReloadEvent -- etc. etc. |
02 |
03 | reloadEvent.OnServerEvent:connect(function(clientFiredFrom) |
04 | Reload() |
05 | end) |
06 |
07 | -- or |
08 |
09 | function reloadFunction.OnServerInvoke:connect(clientFiredFrom) |
10 | Reload() |
11 | end |
Hope I helped!
~TDP