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When a player walks over a spawn it won't change the value of the boolvalue?

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When a player walks over a spawn it sets a bool value (IsInMatch) to false. When the bool value is set to true the GUI is Invisible, but when the boolvalue is false the GUI is visible. Although, that's not the problem. the problem is that when I walk over my spawn, it won't change the value of the boolvalue, hence letting the GUI not disappear.

simplealgorithm added to the script but it still doesn't work.

here is the local script inside the spawn:

local IsInMatch = game.Players.LocalPlayer.IsInMatch

function OnTouch(part)
    IsInMatch.Value = false
end

-- simplealgorithm added more to the script below but it doesn't seem to work

local Spawn = script:FindFirstAncestor("Spawn")
Spawn.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
   if (hit ~= nil) then
      OnTouch(Spawn)
   end
end)
Anonymous

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Local Scripts need to be under the player for them to run. Put this under StarterPlayerScripts and correct the "Spawn" variable path.

Anonymous#

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This is simply because LocalScripts do not work in the server. The spawn, which I am assuming is somewhere in the Workspace, is a part of the server.

You need to be handling all this in a normal, server script. Now, since this is a server script, game.Players.LocalPlayer would not work, because it wouldn't make sense for the server to have a local player.

To find the player who touched the Spawn part, you can simply check to see if the hit parameter passed through the Touched event can tell you information about an existing player.

It can be done so like this (in a server script):

function OnTouch(hit)
	if hit then
		local player = nil
		
		-- Checking to see if the part that hit it is a character
		if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
   			player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		-- Special case where a hat hits the spawn rather than a limb
		elseif hit.Parent.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent.Parent)
		end
		
		-- If a player was found through all the checking we did prior to this
		if player then
			player.IsInMatch.Value = false
		end
	end
end

local Spawn = script.Parent -- no need for FindFirstAncestor
Spawn.Touched:Connect(OnTouch)
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