How Do I Get The Local Player From A Server Script?
So I have had an issue with values not saving to a leaderboard because it was a local script so here I have a server script I made but I get the following error:
Script:3: attempt to index local 'user' (a nil value)
So the problem is, how do I get the player who clicked the text button in a server script?
local function onClicked(player)
local user = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(player)
local stats = user:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
if stats ~= nil then
local cash = stats:findFirstChild("Money")
cash.Value = cash.Value + 500
else
print("Error1")
end
end
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(onClicked)
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3 answers
This script is supposed to be a LocalScript (read this guide; servers cannot handle user input directly when playing online). You have up to 2 other problems:
- The client (ie any LocalScript) isn't supposed to change things like the leaderstats. Instead, the client is supposed to use a
RemoteEvent/RemoteFunction(see tutorial) to communicate to the server what it wants changed. (This is for FilteringEnabled places [aka non-Experimental Mode].) - MouseButton1Click does not give any arguments. Instead, when you're in a LocalScript, simply use
game.Players.LocalPlayer.
ie, change line 2 to be local user = game.Players.LocalPlayer, make it a LocalScript, and turn on experimental mode (aka turn off FilteringEnabled) if needed and it should work.
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Only client side items can grab localplayer. Use an argument, like ontouched for example. Its arg is the part that touched it. Same applies to click-detectors.
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To access the local player from a script, you could use something like this:
local players = game.Players
wait(1)
local camera = workspace.Camera
local player = nil
for i, v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
if v.Name ~= camera.CameraSubject.Parent.Name then
player = v
end
end
This will only work if the camera subject is the character, though.