Detect Keycode Input from serverscript

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#1

1. What do you want to achieve?

– I want my script when my animation is playing and i press keybind W (must be keybind) it will do a function.

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

– server script cannot detect keybind.

local animationPlaying = true

animationTrack.Stopped:Connect(function()
	animationPlaying = false
	char:SetAttribute("Attacking", false)
	char:SetAttribute("Morph",false)

	end)
    task.spawn(function()
	while animationPlaying do
		if char:GetAttribute("Stunned") or char:GetAttribute("Ragdoll") then
		 animationTrack:Stop()

				local sound = script.Counter:Clone()
				sound.Parent = humrp
				sound:Play()
				game.Debris:AddItem(sound,1)
				
			local animationTrackK1 = animatorK:LoadAnimation(script.C1)
			animationTrackK1.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
			animationTrackK1.Looped = false

			local animationTrack1 = animator:LoadAnimation(script.C2)
			animationTrack1.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
			animationTrack1.Looped = false
			
			local dashForce = 50000
			local bodyPosition = Instance.new("BodyPosition")
			bodyPosition.MaxForce = Vector3.new(dashForce, 0, dashForce)
			bodyPosition.Position = humrp.Position + (humrp.CFrame.LookVector * -40)
			bodyPosition.P = 10000
			bodyPosition.D = 1000
			bodyPosition.Parent = humrp
			game.Debris:AddItem(bodyPosition, 0.2)
			
			animationTrack1:Play()
			animationTrackK1:Play()
			
			
			
			char:SetAttribute("Stunned",false)
			
		end
		UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
			if input.Keycode == Enum.Keycode.W then
				
				animationTrack:Stop()
				
				local animationTrackK2 = animatorK:LoadAnimation(script.F1)
				animationTrackK2.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
				animationTrackK2.Looped = false

				local animationTrack2 = animator:LoadAnimation(script.F2)
				animationTrack2.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
				animationTrack2.Looped = false
				
				animationTrackK2:Play()
				animationTrack2:Play()
				
				local dashForce = 50000
				local bodyPosition = Instance.new("BodyPosition")
				bodyPosition.MaxForce = Vector3.new(dashForce, 0, dashForce)
				bodyPosition.Position = humrp.Position + (humrp.CFrame.LookVector * 45)
				bodyPosition.P = 10000
				bodyPosition.D = 1000
				bodyPosition.Parent = humrp
				game.Debris:AddItem(bodyPosition, 0.2)
				
				animationTrack2.KeyframeReached:Connect(function(key)
					if key == "Hit" then
						hitbox:Start()
						wait(0.075)
						hitbox:Stop()
						hitbox:Destroy()
					end
				end)
				
			end
		end)
		task.wait(0.05)
	end
end)
  AnimationTrack:Play()

3. What solutions have you tried so far?

– I did try to look for solution but i did not find one.

simple explanation of this script is an animation plays and when animation is playing and player gets an attribute stunned then it does a thing. but if player press keybind W then it does a different thing. the problem is on the detecting if player press keybind W since this is a server script.

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#2

If you need to detect input, then you have to use the client and RemoteEvents.

I also wouldn’t recommend relying on animation timing for any system.

#3

First of all you should remove the InputBegan function from the ServerScript, so the AnimationTrack.Stopped event is just the stopped function. And then create a new function (that I will be refferencing as “playWAnimation”). This function will have the code that is inside the if input.Keycode == Enum.KeyCode.W then statement. The scopng will be shown in the last step.

To start: in the ServerScript, we can create the RemoteEvent, and set a trigger that runs whenever the event is fired. This is known as “OnServerEvent”.

local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local remoteEventsFolder = Instance.new("Folder")
remoteEventsFolder.Name = "RemoteEventsFolder"
remoteEventsFolder.Parent = RS

local inputWEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
inputWEvent.Name = "InputWEvent"
inputWEvent.Parent = remoteEventsFolder

local isAnimationPlaying = false

inputWEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
	
end)

Now in a LocalScript, we set up an InputBegan event that checks if the Input is “W”. Then we refference the RemoteEvent we created, and fire it to your ServerScript.

local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEventsFolder = RS:WaitForChild("RemoteEventsFolder",10)
local inputWEvent = remoteEventsFolder:WaitForChild("InputWEvent",10)

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input,gameProcessedEvent)
	
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.W then
		
		inputWEvent:FireServer()
		
	end
	
end)

Back on the ServerScript, you can now connect the OnServerEvent to your animation function.

local RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local remoteEventsFolder = Instance.new("Folder")
remoteEventsFolder.Name = "RemoteEventsFolder"
remoteEventsFolder.Parent = RS

local inputWEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
inputWEvent.Name = "InputWEvent"
inputWEvent.Parent = remoteEventsFolder

local isAnimationPlaying = false

local function playWAnimation()
	
	print("running function")
	
end

inputWEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
	
	if isAnimationPlaying == true then
		
		playWAnimation()
		
	end
	
end)
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#4

Thanks for the reply. It wasnt really what i wanted it to be. But i found a simpler way similiar to yours