What I am trying to accomplish is, on touch, a GUI is replicated into the player GUI from server storage. I have done this without FE but I am looking to find out how to do it with FE.
On touch how would I get from the character to the player? And then their player GUI?
Would i have to use Remote Functions/Events or will something more simple like:
function onTouch(Humanoid) h=~nil then GetPlayerFromCharacter
will something like that do?
You would have to use a remote function. The server side would handle the part where it detects the touch:
local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent --name this whatever you'd like, and place it in the Replicated Storage, as both the Client and Server can access it.
function onTouch(hit)
if hit.Parent and game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then
RemoteEvent:FireClient(game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent))
end
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouch)
This fires the event that lets the client do whatever is connected to the event. This connection would be defined in a LocalScript. You can place it in the StarterPlayerScripts or somewhere similar where localscripts can run:
local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent --again, make sure this name matches up to the RemoteEvent you're firing in the server script.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
function ShowGui()
local gui = game.ReplicatedStorage.GUI_NAME:clone() --whatever you called it
if (not player.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild(gui.Name)) then
gui.Parent = player.PlayerGui
end
end
RemoteEvent.OnClientEvent:connect(ShowGui)
You don't need to use remote events. You can do everything in the server script.
-- In a server script within the part being touched
local part = script.Parent
part.Touched:connect(function(otherPart)
if otherPart.Parent then
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(otherPart.Parent)
if player and not player.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("ScreenGui") then
game.ServerStorage.ScreenGui:Clone().Parent = player.PlayerGui
end
end
end)
This is what I used a short while after mraznboy's reply and some experimenting.
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Thank you for the introduction on FE. You taught me what no other roblox tutorial video could. I checked the wiki so do have a basic underrstanding but didn't know how to use it.
No problem! It's very easy, just make sure to keep everything organized or you can easily lose yourself.