My player existence check not printing anything?
Here is the script, it is a script in ServerScriptService.
while wait(1) do
if game.Players:FindFirstChild("xXGokyXx") == nil then
print('xXGokyXx is not here!')
end
if game.Players:FindFirstChild("xXGokyXx") ~= nil then
print('xXGokyXx is here!')
end
end
It isn't printing anything when I go into team test and I'm not sure why.
1 answer
There is really no need to use a while loop for this problem. Instead, you can use several other methods.
When a player joins the game, check if they are the player in question
To do this, we'll utilize the PlayerAdded event of the Players service.
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local ExpectedPlayer = "xXGokyXx"
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
if player.Name == ExpectedPlayer then
print("xXGokyXx is here!")
end
end)
You can even match this up with the PlayerRemoving event if you want to make a notification system or something of that nature.
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local ExpectedPlayer = "xXGokyXx"
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
if player.Name == ExpectedPlayer then
print("xXGokyXx is here!")
end
end)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
if player.Name == ExpectedPlayer then
print("xXGokyXx is here!")
end
end)
Scan the Players service during runtime
If you want to scan the game during its runtime (i.e. not when a player joins like we did before), you can simply use the :FindFirstChild() method like you did in your original code. Your code was technically fine, and it should have worked. You shouldn't use infinite while loops, though, unless you actually have to. My first code snippets shows a workaround for that.
Resources:
PlayerAdded
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