Hello Developers,
We’ve noticed recently that there was a discrepancy between our developer documentation, examples, and the TeleportService:GetPlayerPlaceInstanceAsync API. This specific function is used in conjunction with TeleportService:TeleportToPlaceInstance, and we’ve seen that there was a lot of confusion on the forums in various posts by several developers. We want to clear up that confusion in this announcement, and also let you know how we plan on addressing this particular discrepancy.
If you’ve tried to use this function in the past, you may have seen that in the documentation and the examples that there is already a discrepancy on what is supposed to be returned from the API:
The documentation describes 3 return values (currentInstance, placeId, jobId)
And the example below it makes it appear that there are different return values on a successful pcall (errorMessage, placeId, jobId - a successful pcall will not return a second parameter by default Programming in Lua : 8.4).
However, neither of these are correct. What’s actually returned from the TeleportService:GetPlayerPlaceInstanceAsync API is the following:
- currentInstance
- a blank string
- placeId
- instanceId
The correct way to use this method would be to do something similar to the code snippet below:
local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
-- followId is the user ID of the player that you want to retrieve the place and job ID for
currentInstance, _, placeId, jobId = TeleportService:GetPlayerPlaceInstanceAsync(followId)
end)
if success then
-- Teleport player
TeleportService:TeleportToPlaceInstance(placeId, jobId, player)
end
We apologize that it took this long to recognize this issue. We also understand that some developers may have found workarounds for this problem, so we plan on keeping the functionality the same; we’ll instead be updating the documentation and examples to reflect the current behavior of the TeleportService:GetPlayerPlaceInstanceAsync API.
The TeleportService:TeleportToPlaceInstance API will also be updated to throw an error if an empty instanceId is provided, which would be the scenario that occurs if the developer followed the developer documentation.
Thank you.
Good luck! 