Get Studio "Player"

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#1

This is an odd question, but is there a way to get the Studio user’s “Player”? I don’t mean in test mode. The Studio “Player” only seems to appear in Team Create, but not in solo.

Let’s say I were writing a plugin and wanted to check if the player owned a certain item, or were apart of a certain group, or anything like that which would require a “Player”. Is there a way to get said “Player”? Or maybe get the UserId of the Studio user? CreatorId only works in a published game, and only if it’s a non-group game.

Thanks

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#2

You can print the ids for Player1,2,3,4 and so on and you will see they are -1 -2 -3 -4. I don’t know if this helps you though.

#3

I just want to get either the UserId or Player object of Studio. In short, I want to check if the person using my plugin has a specific item.

#4

You can get the owner’s id with game.CreatorId and then use it to check for groups or items.

#5

While that works in most cases, that sadly doesn’t work for unpublished or group hosted games.

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#6

Wow, I’m sorry. I totally missed the part you said that.

#7

It’s alright. However, it seems even with game.CreatorId, it doesn’t work in a non-Team Create game as shown here:

local M = game:GetService('MarketplaceService')
local P = game:GetService('Players')
local p = P:GetPlayerByUserId(game.CreatorId)
local owned = M:PlayerOwnsAsset(6312892237,p)
print(owned)

- 08:58:11.051  Argument 2 missing or nil  -  Edit
  08:58:11.051  Stack Begin  -  Studio
  08:58:11.051  Script 'local M = game:GetService('MarketplaceService')
  local P = game:GetService('Players')
  local p = P:GetPlayerByUserId(game.CreatorId)
  local owned = M:PlayerOwnsAsset(6312892237,p)
+ print(owned)', Line 4  -  Studio
  08:58:11.051  Stack End  -  Studio

I also just realized that CreatorId will get the actual CreatorId and not the Studio user’s Id.

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#8

You could use this:

But this only works in the command bar and in plug-in scripts.

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#9

That is very close to what I need, thank you.

Sadly, I apparently can’t get a “Player” out of a UserId without the player existing in the Player list. Is there another way to see if a player owns an item via Studio?

I suppose I could theoretically use a one-time verification setting using plugin settings that save, but that would require the user to open a team create just for verification, which isn’t ideal.

I wish there was just a plugin:GetPlayer() or plugin:PlayerOwnsAsset() type of thing.

#10

Unfortunately, that’s the only way (that I know of) you can use to get the Studio User’s Player without team create or playtesting.

#11

I suppose I’ll have to make it work then. Thanks for the help.

Also, I guess I can just use test mode instead of Team Create. That’ll require less effort from the user.

#12

Maybe you can try something with Roblox API.


You can get information about the groups here:

https://groups.roblox.com/v2/users/{user_id}/groups/roles

About an item, you can use this route, however, you won’t be able to see a private inventory:

https://inventory.roblox.com/v2/users/{user_id}/inventory/{asset_type_id}?sortOrder=Asc&limit=10

If the item is a gamepass, try this (works with private inventories):

https://inventory.roblox.com/v1/users/{userId}/items/GamePass/{gamePassId}

https://groups.roblox.com/docs#!/Groups/get_v2_users_userId_groups_roles

https://inventory.roblox.com/docs#!/Inventory/get_v2_users_userId_inventory_assetTypeId

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#13

I think that not only requires HttpService to be enabled, but also to have the user’s inventory set to public.

In the meantime, I think I’ll just have to require the user to enter Test Mode once to verify and then save the results in the plugin’s settings.

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#14

I don’t know what you’re doing, but if it’s supposed to be exclusive for players who own the item, it can be manipulated changing the plugin settings json file. :slight_smile:

#15

The settings will be encrypted and the plugin code itself will be obfuscated (and doesn’t require loadstring).

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