So I Have Been Trying To Reference A Backpack To Give The Player Chicken On A Click Giver I Looked On Roblox Wiki For How To And I Did That But It Didn't Work I Use This Script To Clone The Chicken All Over The Place So I Think It Is Just The Referencing I Don't Know I Am Still New To Lua And Coding This Is What I Did
click = game.Workspace.ChickenGiver.ClickDetector
click.mouseClick:Connect(function()
game.ServerStorage.ChickenTool:Clone().Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Backpack
end)
A ClickDetector will work on both the server and client side (they were updated to work with FE which is now default).
You should be running this as a server script as I am guessing you would like this to work for all players in the game and not just one player. One thing to not is that the event MouseClick will pass the player who clicked the detector which you can use.
The script itself is a simple fix as the majority of it is correct. You just need to access the player using the player object passed in the event. Also remember Lua is case sensitive so mouseClick is not the same as MouseClick
-- I prefer to use WaitForChild as it will throw a warning if not found within a set time. Strictly speeking you do not need to do this.
local tool = game:GetService('ServerStorage'):WaitForChild('ChickenTool'):Clone()
workspace.ChickenGiver.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
local backpack = plr:FindFirstChild('BackPack') -- prevent threads from blocking?
if backpack then
tool:Clone().Parent = backpack
end
end)
i hope this helps. Please comment if you have any other questions.
Thank You So Much
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You need a capital M for 'click.MouseClick'. The rest is fine.
Is this a server script? If so I you wouldn't be able to use Local Player, but you can use remote events to communicate with a local script & tell it to clone the tool & place it in the backpack.