Are attributes client or server side?

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:35am

Hello, everyone.
Simple questions,
Are attributes client or server side? Let’s say I put an attribute on a part. Are changes to the attribute via scripts affecting client, or do they affect server?

Sincerely,
-coolguyweir

Emskipo · February 17, 2022, 4:38am

The don’t replicate as far as I am aware. To be clearer… If you add an attribute via a server script. The client wouldn’t see it and vice versa. If the attribute is pre-made then the client will see it but changes made on the client won’t be made on the server.

NDavis06 · February 17, 2022, 4:38am

I think you can only create it on the server. and can be accessed from both? Let me give it a try.

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:40am

Thanks for the explanation! I will look further.

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:40am

Please give it a try and let me know the results!
Thank you!!

NDavis06 · February 17, 2022, 4:44am

I think they are both able to be accessed from client server. tho you can only change them server sided to see any change on the client.

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:52am

oh okay. Thanks you for checking!

Judgy_Oreo · February 17, 2022, 4:53am

You can change attributes on the client, but only that specific client will see that change.

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:55am

oh okay thanks for clarification!

Rynappel · February 17, 2022, 4:55am

If it’s changed on the server, it will change for all the clients too. But if it’s changed on the client, it would only change on that specific clients side - just like how ReplicatedStorage and other things work

Instance Attributes (roblox.com)

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:56am

Oh gotcha! Thank you for the explanation

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 4:57am

So basically let’s say I were to make a countdown clock
I can edit the clock’s time based on the server end
and local players can just update their end every frame to match the server countdown clock

Rynappel · February 17, 2022, 4:57am

Yea you could do that. word count

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 5:01am

gotcha. Thanks again! I appreciate it.

NDavis06 · February 17, 2022, 5:04am

As said: tho you can only change them server sided to see any change on the client.

Specifically targeting the Server not client.

I think its pretty obvious anything changed on the client will be changed for the client only

coolguyweir · February 17, 2022, 5:09am

true, true. That was a good clarification.

Forummer · February 17, 2022, 1:19pm

If an attribute is created by the server then its existence will replicate to all clients, if that attribute’s value is then changed by a client its change will only replicate to that particular client, if that attribute’s value is changed by the server its change will replicate to all clients.

If an attribute is created by a client then its existence will only replicate to that particular client, if that attribute’s value is then changed by the client which created it then its change will replicate to that particular client, as the attribute was created by a client its existence would not replicate to the server/other clients so its value cannot be changed by the server/those other clients.

This should cover all bases regarding attribute replication, if you need further assistance let me know.