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Team-Based Characters not working. Help?

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orcsem 7

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

So, I'm trying to make a game like CS:GO on Roblox, but I have a problem. I am having problems making team-based characters.

Let's say everyone in Team 1 is supposed to have Character 1 and Team 2 is supposed to have Character 2. My attempt was to clone Character 1 into StarterPlayer and rename it to StarterCharacter if the player is inside Team 1. Then, when the player's character has loaded, StarterCharacter gets removed. The same with Team 2.

Now, when I loaded in, my character appearance didn't change and I was still me. The script is a serverscript and is placed inside StarterPack. I am also getting no error in the output.

Here's the code: (I'm kinda new to scripting)

local StarterCharacter1 = game.ServerStorage.TModel
local StarterCharacter2 = game.ServerStorage.CTModel


--Terrorist Side

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
                if script.Parent.Parent.TeamColor == ("Maroon") then
                    StarterCharacter1:Clone().Parent = game.StarterPlayer
                    game.StarterPlayer.TModel.Name = "StarterCharacter"
                    local Pos = plr.Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame()
                    plr:LoadCharacter()
                    plr.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Pos)
                    if plr.Character:FindFirstChild("ForceField") then
                        plr.Character["ForceField"]:Destroy()
                        game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Remove()
                    end
                end
            end)

--Counter Terrorist Side

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
            if script.Parent.Parent.TeamColor == ("Navy Blue") then
                    StarterCharacter2:Clone().Parent = game.StarterPlayer
                    game.StarterPlayer.CTModel.Name = "StarterCharacter"
                    local Pos = plr.Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame()
                    plr:LoadCharacter()
                    plr.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Pos)
                    if plr.Character:FindFirstChild("ForceField") then
                        plr.Character["ForceField"]:Destroy()
                        game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Remove()
                    end
                end
            end)

1 answer

Answered by

parkour 20

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

A player's TeamColor is not a string. Please use BrickColor.new(Color) instead.

Here's a link to the page about Player.TeamColor: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Player/TeamColor

Also, based on the script.Parent.Parent, is this in a LocalScript?

If so, please make sure this is in a regular script inside of either Workspace or ServerScriptService.

local StarterCharacter1 = game.ServerStorage.TModel
local StarterCharacter2 = game.ServerStorage.CTModel

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
    if plr.TeamColor == BrickColor.new("Maroon") then
        StarterCharacter1:Clone().Parent = game.StarterPlayer
        game.StarterPlayer.TModel.Name = "StarterCharacter"
        local Pos = plr.Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame()
        plr:LoadCharacter()
        plr.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Pos)
        if plr.Character:FindFirstChild("ForceField") then
            plr.Character["ForceField"]:Destroy()
            game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Remove()
        end
    elseif plr.TeamColor == BrickColor.new("Navy Blue") then
        StarterCharacter2:Clone().Parent = game.StarterPlayer
        game.StarterPlayer.CTModel.Name = "StarterCharacter"
        local Pos = plr.Character:GetPrimaryPartCFrame()
        plr:LoadCharacter()
        plr.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(Pos)
        if plr.Character:FindFirstChild("ForceField") then
            plr.Character["ForceField"]:Destroy()
            game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacter:Remove()
        end
    end
end)

The script is a global script placed inside StarterPack. orcsem 7 — 5y

I was trying to access the player by putting the script inside StarterPack and using script.Parent.Parent orcsem 7 — 5y

You might want to try making this into a script inside of ServerScriptService, because if you have, say, 10 players, running the same connections events, it will cause lag. parkour 20 — 5y

I have tried doing that but I don't know how to check the TeamColor of the player through ServerScriptService. orcsem 7 — 5y

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Try the code I have edited into my answer. parkour 20 — 5y

The character does load in as the custom character, but I am getting this error: ServerScriptService.Teams:8: attempt to index field 'Character' (a nil value). Also, the StarterCharacter stays inside StarterPlayer. orcsem 7 — 5y

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