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How to make the game do something when a player leaves the game?

Asked Jun 21, 20182,527 views4 answers

I want to have the game do something when the player leaves the game. I've done some research and found PlayerRemoved, but I've never used the function before, and when I attemped to use it, nothing really happened at all when a player left. Could someone please help me out?

local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").terminalOff

game.GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	event:FireServer(game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer)
end)

The code is in a local script.

When a player leaves the game, an event will be fired to the Server, which will tell the server to re-enable a click detector I have in my game.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018Edited Jun 21, 2018

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When a player leaves the game, enable the click detector from the server; everything on the server side. Not a local script. I can see this working well, unless the click detector is required to be on a local script. But then what would be the reason for it? Do you have some more info you could provide on this?

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

Thank you, I moved my code into a server script, as a child to the part the ClickDetector was in, and it worked just as I wanted it to in the first place.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

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There is an event called PlayerRemoving which is triggered exactly before the player is about to leave. So you can use it to save a user's state before he leaves as an example. I have improved this code from the wiki on API:Class/Players/PlayerRemoving:

function writeLog(player)
    print("LOG: ", player.Name, " has indicated that he is leaving the game!")
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(writeLog) -- attach writeLog() function to the event; writeLog() will execute each time a player is about to leave.

writeLog() is therefore set up to execute each time a player is being removed from the game, executing exactly before the player leaves the game. You can attach multiple functions, and you can have much more complex functions than the one I have indicated here.

So you must not use the PlayerRemoved event as you have indicated, but instead, PlayerRemoving. If the above code does not work for you, please provide more details on what you are doing and we can help you accordingly.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018Edited Jun 21, 2018Permalink

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Basically, there is a GUI on screen, which is triggered by a click detector. Once the player clicks 'power off' on the GUI, then the click detector will enable itself again. However, I want to make it so that if the player leaves the game, then the click detector will also be enabled. That is why I am wanting to call a remote event after the player has left the game.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

The remote event is what tells the clickdetector to re-enable itself on the server side.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

And this is still not working? Do you have an error and maybe some code you can show us if it is not too much work?

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

P.s. why are you using a local script? The player leaving the server is a server-based action in the sense that the server knows that someone left it, I don't understand the necessity to put it as a local action? Maybe you need to separate some code.

AnonymousJun 21, 2018#

The event is called PlayerRemoving not PlayerRemoved and it's and event which occurs when a player is leaving the game. Let me show you an example.

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
    print(player.Name.. " left the game")
end)

Also I can not show you how to use this event like in 2 words but I recommend you reading this article about this event http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/Players/PlayerRemoving

I read your script carefully and I now understand why your script is not working, here is the fixed version.

local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").terminalOff

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
    event:FireServer()
end)

You do not need to add a parameter called player after :FireServer(), seems stupid.

Just go on another script and write the parameter player there at .OnServerEvent.

game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").terminalOff.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	print(player.Name.. " left the game")
end)

Just like that!

AnonymousJun 21, 2018Edited Jun 21, 2018Permalink

idk if you misspelled it here but it's PlayerRemoving, not PlayerRemoved

so basically the code would be:

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr) --plr is a player leaving the game
	print(plr.Name.." is leaving")
	--do stuff
end)

AnonymousJun 21, 2018Permalink

I'm not completely certain but it's an OnServerEvent

AnonymousJun 21, 2018Permalink

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