Team changing problem

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#1

hey eveyone, i have a spawnlocation that switches teams form civillian to police (no child scripts for the spawner) and i also have a script that gives specific teams players ex. police get handcuffs. the only problem is that when a player switches teams they have to reset to get the items for that team and i made the respawn time really slow so it can be boring waiting to respawn after switching teams. anyone have any solutions?

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#2

You could take advantage of the Team property being changed.

Some variation of the following should work:

local playerService = game:GetService('Players');

playerService.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player:GetPropertyChangedSignal('Team'):Connect(function()
		if Player.Team.Name == 'Police' then
			-- Insert tools
		else
			-- Remove tools
		end;
	end);
end);
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#3

You could use the Players:LoadCharacter(spawnLocation) function so the character spawns instantly.

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#4

I’ve never seen someone use ; in their Roblox scripting

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#5

well here is the thing, i already have a script for giving a specific team tools, so adding it to another script would crowd the hotbar with duplicates of items. and i dont want to delete the current one in case the new one does not work.

#6

this will kinda help if i use this with part of the other script but i cant find a full answer

#7

um how do i remove tools? and also i think this might work! ill test it soon

#8

ok i kinda wentr off what you both said like this:


playerService.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player:GetPropertyChangedSignal('Team'):Connect(function()
		if Player.Team.Name == 'Police' then
			playerService:LoadCharacter(spawnLocation)
		else
			
		end;
	end);
end);

and now its not working, can you please tell me why? i suspect it has to do with the “playerservice:loadcharacter(spawnlocation)” but i dont know how to fix it

#9

The semicolons do nothing to the script, some people just like it that way - maybe because it looks easier to read for them

#10

i think this is off topic, can someone please help me with my script?

#11

:LoadCharacter() does not take any parameters.

#12

also, :LoadCharacter is a function for the Player object, not the service

Documentation

#13

thank, btw im new to the lua language so can u pls tell me what a paramiter is?

#14

It’s what you send through a function

function printTwice(message, inOneMessage)
   if inOneMessage then
      print(message, message)
   else
      print(message)
      print(message)
   end
end
--message and inOneMessage are the arguments (the parameter but receiving not passing)

printTwice("Hello!!!!", true)
--"Hello!!!!" and true are the parameters
#15

ok thank you for helping me expand my knowledge, i will now go test some more code

#16

i have now changed the script and tested it…


playerService.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	Player:GetPropertyChangedSignal('Team'):Connect(function()
		if Player.Team.Name == 'Police' then
			Player:LoadCharacter()
		else
			
		end;
	end);
end);

and it works! thank you all for helping me fix another problem i have! i wish i could mark multiple solutions cuz i kinda used a combination of two peoples solutions and then you helped fix the code

#17 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
   player:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Team"):Connect(function()
      player:LoadCharacter()
   end)
end)
#18

is that just to help me simpify my code to make it more readable?

#19

looking at the code, that is not only simpler, but solves my problems with changing other teams as well! all i have to do is test it

#20

the original purpose was to help for the other teams, but now looking at it, it is more readable