Folder will not parent to Camera while in Team-Create

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    My folder will not parent to the current camera while in a team create place at all.

  2. What is the issue?
    My plugin creates a folder inside of the workspace.CurrentCamera, however, this folder does not show at all while in a team create place.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I have tried toggling Archivable, and even tried parenting it to different spots, however the folder needs to remain in the camera as that’s the only place I found where it is local to that specific client.

Heres the code that creates the folder:

repeat
	Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
	task.wait()
until Camera ~= nil

-- These are other modules which the plugin uses
local Alerts = require(Utils.Alerts)
local Zipline = require(Utils.Zipline)
local StatsGui = require(Utils.StatsGui)

if Camera:FindFirstChild("FE2_StudioZiplines") then
	if Camera.FE2_StudioZiplines:FindFirstChild("_Zipline") then
		ZiplinesActivated = true
		ZiplineFolder = Camera.FE2_StudioZiplines
	else
		ZiplineFolder = Camera.FE2_StudioZiplines
	end
else
	ZiplinesActivated = false
	ZiplineFolder = Instance.new("Folder")
	ZiplineFolder.Name = "FE2_StudioZiplines"
	ZiplineFolder.Archivable = false
	ZiplineFolder.Parent = Camera
end
ZiplineFolder.Archivable = false
print("Created folder and parented to:", ZiplineFolder.Parent:GetFullName())

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However nothing is parented
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In a regular solo place, this works fine.

Any help is appreciated!

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Is this being ran from a script or localscript? Im pretty sure camera instances are local so if it is being ran from a script it is likely going to the server’s camera instance (or nil cause it might just be blank on the server)

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It’s being ran on a localScript, so I don’t see why it doesn’t work

4

Just noticed that in a normal place the output is different:
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Does this mean that the team create camera is somewhere else?

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sorry for the late reply, im not too familiar with teamcreate stuff but its possible that it does have a different camera system due to the weird nature of how teamcreate handles stuff, since you said it works fine in solo it might just be due to teamcreate. I would test in game to see if it works though

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Okay, thats fine! I’ve tested this ingame and in studio and it works fine for a solo place, I honestly don’t know why team create is being buggy.

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is this a FE2 map? :thinking:

I believe it does (otherwise everyone would share the same camera), it probably works like live servers (each player has different camera instances)

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Haha yes it is

Hm, I’m just not sure why it prints that it parents it to the camera, yet nothing shows. I might need to find a way to only replicate it to one player

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Can you show in explorer the childrens of the camera object? (on runtime)

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What do you mean by on-runtime?

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When you start a server/play solo can you show the childrens of the camera instance

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This is a plugin, I don’t see why I need to play it?

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Problem solved 8 months later haha
I just needed to wait around 5 seconds for the camera instance to load, not sure why this works but I’m not changing it :smiley:

If anyone else has this problem, here’s a rough recreation of what worked for me (keep in mind that my plugin doesn’t need to run instantly)

-- ...
local camera;

print("Starting")
wait(5)

if workspace.CurrentCamera then
  camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
else
  repeat
    camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
    wait(0.5)
  until camera ~= nil
end
-- ...