Best practice for Server to Client communication?
In my game, im planning to have it so that when players click a door, they teleport onto the other side.
It works by clicking on the door, then a RemoteEvent is fired to the client, which on the client side a transition animation occurs and also teleports the client which is also handled by the Client.
Server Side
local transitioning = {}
local Events = game.ReplicatedStorage.Events
Model.DoorIn.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(Plr)
if not transitioning[Plr] then -- so that the player cannot request another transition whilst a transitioning is already happening.
Events.Transition:FireClient(Plr, Model.TeleportIn.CFrame)
transitioning[Plr] = true
print(Plr)
wait(0.6)
transitioning[Plr] = nil
end
end)
Client Side
Events.Transition.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(returnedData)
transitionIn() -- does the GUI transition animation
wait(0.5)
Plr.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(returnedData)
transitionOut()
end)
Is there a better way to do this? More on the side of better performance and compensating for latency delay?
0
0
1 answer
If you're just handling the local player, do everything in a localscript. Server-side is redundant for that. An exploiter can set the position of their Character to anything, anyway.
Also, ClickDetector allows both Scripts and LocalScripts to receive user input.
Model.DoorIn.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(Player)
Player.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Model.TeleportIn.CFrame)
end)
If you want a debounce handler, just fire a remotefunction and decide to move the character or not client-side with a simple sentinel boolean value. You don't need to know every player transitioning unless you're doing something with that data. Otherwise, we can simplify.
Server
myDebounce = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteFunction
local debounce = false
myDebounce.OnServerInvoke = function(Plr)
if debounce == false then
spawn(function() --your function to handle the debounce instruction in another thread
debounce = true
wait(0.5)
debounce = false
end)
return true --tell the client its safe to tp
end
return false --its not safe to tp
end
Client
myDebounce = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteFunction
Model.DoorIn.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(Player)
if myDebounce:InvokeServer() == true then
Player.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Model.TeleportIn.CFrame)
end
end)