How to fireclient when a local player steps on a part?
So here’s the deal, I’m currently working on a GUI and I’m firing a client event when a player steps on a part in work space. At first I used FireAllClients() I very soon figured that it pops up the GUI on everyone’s screen. Is there anyway where I can make it where any player can step on the part and make it where the GUI pops only on the players screen who stepped on the part? Thanks. Below is the previous code.
GuiPop = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild(“GuiPopUp”)
workspace.TestPad.Touched:connect(function(hit)
If hit.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) then
GuiPop:FireAllClients()
End
End)
1 answer
Well for this purpose, you can use a handy function of the Players service called GetPlayerFromCharacter().
This function, like this name suggests, it returns a player object when given a character value. This can be used as the first argument of the FireClient() function of the remote event.
Another thing to note is that lua is case sensitive, meaning that something like end has a different meaning than something like End, eNd, or END. It should always be clear that capitalization in the correct places matter, for example: if you tried to write an if statement like:
If x Then... end
It would error and neither If nor Then are written correctly, however, if I did
if x then ... end
it wouldn't error as if and then are correctly formatted keyword
With that said, the following can be done:
local GuiPop = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild(“GuiPopUp”)
workspace.TestPad.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if plr then
GuiPop:FireClient(plr)
end
end)
Now, there is a slight problem with the code above,that being that it fires multiple times, as a character has multiple bodyparts can could be colliding with the part within a fraction of a second. That number being from 6 for R6 characters to 16 for R15 character.
An easy way to avert this would be to use a debounce.
Ex:
local GuiPop = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild(“GuiPopUp”)
local PoppedPlayers = {}
workspace.TestPad.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if plr and not PoppedPlayers[plr] then
GuiPop:FireClient(plr)
PoppedPlayers[plr] = true--or some other truthy value
wait(1)
PoppedPlayers[plr] = nil
end
end)
Hopefully this helped you out!
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