Best method of making effects on the client?

[JackM_ehoffPlz (Iwillnotjugg inclass)]

How would I go about playing effects on the client? My main two ideas currently is to make a local script that checks everything the server script does, then plays effects, to fire a remote event with a number “id” that would be checked and then every single effect would have its own id with custom scripts.

Are there any better ways? Are these two laggy?

[ALFA_DEVELOPER]

If you try to make the server and the client play an effect at the same time, you will have to create a local script and a server script, there is no other way.

But if you try to make the client effects also play on the server, create a server script that will put in a table the effects and give them to the client, then when the client wants to play an effect, the client will have to use a remote event :

--SERVER script

local remoteFunction = game.ReplicatedStorage.remoteFunction --Create your own remote function
local playEffectsRE = game.ReplicatedStorage.playEffectRemoteEvent --Create your own remote event
local effects = script:GetDescendants()


remoteFunction.OnServerInvoke = function (player: Player)
	
	for index, effect in effects do
		effects[index] = effect:Clone()
		effects[index].Parent = player.Character --Whaterver
	end
	
	return effects
end


playEffectsRE.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, effectName: string)
	if effects[effectName] then --Check if the effect exist
		effects[effectName].Enabled = true
	else
		warn("This effect don't exist")
	end
end)

--PLAYER script

game.Players.LocalPlayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local remoteFunction = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("remoteFunction") --Create your own remote function
local playEffectsRE = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("playEffectRemoteEvent") --Create your own remote event

local effects = remoteFunction:InvokeServer()

--Play effects (particle emitter for example)
effects["effect name..."].Enable = true --Play on client
playEffectsRE:FireServer("effect name...") --Play on server