What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
The system that I have already works, sort of. I wanted to make a character selection system where a player could click a button and they get to play the character - but only that player can use that character, and it shows who the character was taken by.
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
This works, but only locally. Only one player can see this. All of the other players are unable to see that the character was taken - and they still can select it. This is annoying.
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I have looked for solutions on the developer hub, but can’t find anything. This is confusing, and I don’t know how to solve this.
The following is the code for the button:
SmartSelect.SelectButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function(LocalPlayer)
if CanClick == true then
CanClick = false
local PlayerIcon = script.PlayerIcon:Clone()
local TakenText = script.Taken:Clone()
local BorderRadius = 3
local NewSizeX = PlayerIcon.AbsoluteSize.X
local NewSizeY = PlayerIcon.AbsoluteSize.Y
local FrameSizeX = SmartSelect.Content.SmartIcon.AbsoluteSize.X
local FrameSizeY = SmartSelect.Content.SmartIcon.AbsoluteSize.Y
local RangeX = FrameSizeX - BorderRadius * 2 - NewSizeX
local RangeY = FrameSizeY - BorderRadius * 2 - NewSizeY
local PositionX = (math.random(RangeX) + BorderRadius + NewSizeX / 2) / FrameSizeX
local PositionY = (math.random(RangeY) + BorderRadius + NewSizeY / 2) / FrameSizeY
local UserID = Player.UserId
local ThumbnailType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
local ThumbnailSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
local Content, IsReady = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(UserID, ThumbnailType, ThumbnailSize)
PlayerIcon.Position = UDim2.new(PositionX, 0, PositionY, 0)
PlayerIcon.Parent = SmartSelect.Content.SmartIcon
PlayerIcon.Image = Content
TakenText.Parent = SmartSelect.Content.Information.RoleName
TakenText.Text = "Taken by " ..Player.DisplayName
Actors.Smart.Value = Player.Name
else
end
end)
You’ll need a server script that listens for an event say “CharacterChoosen”. When the client picks a character the client script fires the CharacterChoosen event letting the server know what’s been choosen. The server then needs to send an event to each of clients informing them of what characters have been choosen. Once all clients are accounted for, start the game.
I don’t have a set of sample scripts on hand at the moment, maybe someone else has one they can share…
yeah so basing off Lithdak’s answer this is the basic idea something i tried to whip up quickly give it a try
make two remote events under replicated storage i named them “takenCharacter” and “RemoteEvent”
--local script under button--
local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local takenCharacter = RS:WaitForChild("takenCharacter")
local remote = RS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
local characterName = "Yourcharacternamehere"
local canClick = true
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
remote:FireServer(characterName) -- we gonna fire the character name to the server
end)
takenCharacter.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(character)
if character == characterName then -- this is gonna check if we have to disable the button
canClick = false
end
end)
--server script under server script service--
local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remote = RS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
local takenCharacter = RS:WaitForChild("takenCharacter")
remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, character)
takenCharacter:FireAllClients(character) -- this will fire to all clients
end)
ive never made something like this so sorry for any stupid mistakes i make
Since then I was able to get the prints working, now the only problem is that the “is taken” thing and the canclick doesn’t work and other players can still claim the character.
Remotes.TakenCharacter.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Character)
if Character == LunaticName then
print("lunatic")
local TakenText = script.Taken:Clone()
TakenText.Parent = LunaticSelect.Content.Information.RoleName
TakenText.Text = "Starring " ..Player.DisplayName
CanClick = false
elseif Character == SmartName then
print("smart")
local TakenText = script.Taken:Clone()
TakenText.Parent = SmartSelect.Content.Information.RoleName
TakenText.Text = "Starring " ..Player.DisplayName
CanClick = false
elseif Character == DelusionalName then
print("delusional")
local TakenText = script.Taken:Clone()
TakenText.Parent = LunaticSelect.Content.Information.RoleName
TakenText.Text = "Starring " ..Player.DisplayName
CanClick = false
elseif Character == ParanoidName then
print("paranoid")
local TakenText = script.Taken:Clone()
TakenText.Parent = LunaticSelect.Content.Information.RoleName
TakenText.Text = "Starring " ..Player.DisplayName
CanClick = false
end
end)
Are you checking CanClick with an if statement? I dont believe you can simply do use an if statement to check if its set to false since if statements only run once.
and to clarify do these print? and does the text clone and such?
do you have something to ensure that the button cannot be clicked again? If the prints do print and the texts does clone then the problem might be with how you handle CanClick.
Honestly a simple fix would be to just set your image button visibility to false instead of using CanClick and maybe sub in a grayed out version of the image to show that its been taken
this is really puzzling the event should not be received by only the player if it is being fired to all clients. Assuming that output and print analysis doesn’t print anything either this probably means that there is a condition only met by the player sending it and not everyone else? Can you send me your updated local and server script and I will try this out myself since I had gotten this work yesterday
