GetPlayers returning userdata and not player

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Hello, i’m currently having an issue with the Players:GetPlayers function. When i call it, it returns userdata and not player object which create an error when i try to fire client.

The error stats that it is expecting a player object for fire client.

Thanks for the help!

3

Could you send your code so I can help you?

4

print(game.Players:GetPlayers())

local TestRemote = Instance.new(“RemoteEvent”)

TestRemote.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage

TestRemote:FireClient(game.Players:GetPlayers()[1])

Ignore that the code is bad and dont do anything. I’m using it to test something to see if it even works.

5

Are you trying to fire the remote for all clients or just one?

6

Players:GetPlayers() returns an array containing all the players, not a single player, you have to loop through the array to apply code for each player:

for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do 
	print(player.Name)
end
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7

As i said this is a code for testing so it is normal that it is only getting the first player(Me).

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In this case, you can easily use the following code

local TestRemote = Instance.new(“RemoteEvent”)

TestRemote.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
TestRemote:FireClient(Player)
end)

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The issue is, that the code does not see the Player it sees an array with a single value which is the player.

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If you look in the code, i do GetPlayers()[1] which gets the first player in the array.

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It still does the same thing. It’s very weird.

12

Can you give this a try? It should work.

local TestRemote = Instance.new('RemoteEvent', game.ReplicatedStorage)

repeat wait(1) until #game.Players:GetPlayers() ~= 0 -- waiting until there's at least 1 player

TestRemote:FireClient(game.Players:GetPlayers()[1])
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The real code, which uses classes is not working because the self is not existant outside the .new constructor which cause the problem.

Thanks for the help anyway.

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