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How to get your player's client to ask another player's client something?

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How do I get a player's client to ask if another player's client is viewing something? For an example, I am making a game with a slenderman character, and I want players to be able to hallucinate, or basically have one or a few people be able to see slenderman at a time, while others see completely nothing. This will be done with having the server model invisible, but the client model will be completely visible to specific players.

I want the person playing as slenderman to know whether or not people are viewing him as visible or not from their client's side. There will be a popup gui that tells the player whether or not slender is visible from a client perspective (since the server model is most likely already invisible, just making sure the client side is visible or not). How would I tet that information?

Would I get the client to FireServer/Invoke to the server script, which has a local script inside of it that gets sent into that player's PlayerGui, and retrieves that information back to slenderman somehow.

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You'd want to handle all of this on the server and send the necessary information to the clients as needed.

In a server script,

local watchingSlender = {}
for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do --[[ adds all players into watchingSlender. You want to make sure to remove them when they leave and add new players once they join.--]]
    watchingSlender[v.Name] = false
end

local function players_watching_slender()
    local watching = {}
    for i, v in pairs(watchingSlender) do
        if v then
            table.insert(watching, i)
        end
    end
    return watching
end

local function set_is_watching(player_name)
    watchingSlender[player_name] = true
    --use a remote event here to set slenderman to be visible for the given client
end

You'd follow something similar to this. Every time that a new user can or can't see slender man you'd want to call players_watching_slender and then send that information to slender man via a remote event. On the client side you'd simply put these player names into a table and use that for the rest of your code.

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