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How do I identify a player that clicks a GUI button and how to change teams with the button?

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Brockanthony10 19

5 years ago

I need help with this, I don't know much about GUI's.

3 answers

Answered by

rhettsmith6537 109

5 years ago

The client automatically tells you when a player has clicked a button. You just need a script linked to a function to do something when they click that button.

For example, if you had a LocalScript in a PlayerGui inside the StarterGui, you'd need this in it after putting a button in the StarterGui on the screen.

1local button = script.Parent:WaitForChild('Button') --Make sure the button name is 'Button' or this will infinitely yield.
2 
3button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
4    --Invoke a ChangeTeam remote/event here
5end

To change a players team you'd probably need to be communicating with the server. So you'd need to learn about RemoteEvents and RemoteFunctions first.

Hope this helped.

Answered by

GeneratedScript 740

5 years ago

Building off what the previous answer said, you can detect when a button is pressed VIA:

1-- LocalScript put under the TextButton.
2local button = script.Parent;
3button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
4      RemoteEvent:FireServer();
5end)

1-- ServerScript
2RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
3     -- Set the player's team here.
4end)

Answered by

killerbrenden 1537

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

If you are using a LocalScript inside of the button you can do it this way:

1) Put a RemoteEvent in ReplicatedStorage

2) Put a ServerScript in ServerScriptService

3) Put a LocalScript inside the button

Code:

LocalScript

1local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteEvent") --// Change RemoteEvent to the name of the event and the location
2 
3script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
4    local teamName = "Civillian" --// Change this to the team you want them to be switched to
5    event:FireServer(teamName)
6end)

Here, we are getting the RemoteEvent, and once the button is pressed it fires the server with 2 arguments, the player (automatically the first argument) and the Team Name.

ServerScript

01local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteEvent") --// Change RemoteEvent to the name of the event and the location
02 
03event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,teamName)
04    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
05 
06    if character then
07        player.TeamColor = game:GetService("Teams"):FindFirstChild(teamName).TeamColor
08        wait(0.25)
09        player:LoadCharacter()
10    end
11end)

Here we are getting the RemoteEvent, and when the server is fired and it connects the arguments of the player and the team name, it will check if the player has a character, and if it does then it will change their team and respawn them.

Now there's a different way, you can use a ServerScript inside the button, like this.

ServerScript

01script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(player)
02    local player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent --// Change this to parent the game (this will act as the player)
03    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
04 
05    if character then
06        player.TeamColor = game:GetService("Teams"):FindFirstChild("Enter Team Name Here").TeamColor --// Change "Enter Team Name Here" To the team you want them to switch to in Teams
07        wait(0.25)
08        player:LoadCharacter()
09    end
10end)

Here, we are getting the player through PlayerGui, a child of the Player. After that, we're checking if the player has a character, if so then we will change their team and respawn them.

My opinion in this would be the first one using RemoteEvents, just because it's less of a hassle.

Hope this helped!

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