How do you access Local Player from a normal Script?
How do you access a player's "leaderstats" in a normal script, if it is possible?
01 | game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) |
02 | local leaderboard = Instance.new("Folder") |
03 | leaderboard.Name = "leaderstats" |
04 | leaderboard.Parent = player |
05 | local score = Instance.new("IntValue") |
06 | score.Name = "Cash" |
07 | score.Parent = leaderboard |
08 | score.Value = 100 |
09 |
10 | end) |
Like for a touch event, I want to increase the player's "Cash" when they touched the part.
1 | local door = script.Parent |
2 | local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer |
3 | local cash = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Cash |
4 |
5 | door.Touched:Connect(function() |
6 | cash.Value = cash.Value +100 |
7 | end) |
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There is no LocalPlayer in a Script, because the Script runs on the server, which keeps track of all the connected players. So you'll always need some way to figure out which player was involved. In the case of a touch event, this is provided by the argument passed by Touched.
But the object that does the touching isn't actually the Player object where you stored the leaderstats. It's some Part (such as a left lower leg) within the Character, which is a Model associated with the player. So you'll need to get the part's Parent, then use Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter to find the Player.
There's actually a code sample on the documentation page for GetPlayerFromCharacter showing how to use it within a Touched event callback. Modifying that a little to do your change of cash, I get:
01 | local Players = game:WaitForChild("Players") |
02 | local door = script.Parent |
03 |
04 | door.Touched:Connect(function (obj) |
05 | local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(obj.Parent) |
06 | -- player is nil if touched by something that's not a Player |
07 | if not player then return end |
08 | local score = player.leaderstats.Cash |
09 | score.Value = score.Value + 100 |
10 | end) |
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Made a script that indexes the player in the players service by getting the player's name from the object that touched the door's parent. Each time they touch it, their cash value will increase by 100.
1 | door.Touched:Connect(function(obj) |
2 | local cash = game:GetService("Players")[obj.Parent.Name].leaderstats.Cash.Value |
3 | cash = cash + 100 |
4 | end) |
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