Getting a seat to detect a player sitting and give the player's character

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#1

Hi everyone, I was wondering if you could help me with this issue. What I need to do is give a player a gui when they sit in a seat, however I can’t figure out how to detect when they’ve sat and what do do from there. Any ideas and help is appreciated!

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#2

seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal(“Occupant”)

Use that function to detect a humanoid change then use the GetPlayerFromCharacter function from players to get the character.

#3

How do I get the character/player?

#5 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
     local char = seat.Occupant.Parent
     local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
end)

Seat.Occupant is the Humanoid of the player currently seated.

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#6

What coould I do for the player getting out of the seat to destroy the GUI?

#7 
 local Players = game:GetService("Players")
 local lastPlayer  -- upvalue
 local seat

 seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
     if not seat.Occupant and lastPlayer then
     local PGui = lastPlayer.PlayerGui
     PGui.Gui:Destroy()
     end

     local char = seat.Occupant.Parent
     local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
     lastPlayer = player
end)

If seat.Occupant is nil then there’s no one seated, destroy the Gui from the last player who sat.

Edit:

but two people can’t sit on the same seat at the same time?
Each time a player either sits or leaves, that’ll run individually.

Or you could do this through a local script to make things easier too.

#8

What about if multiple people sit in the seat?

#9

Through private discussion I got your current script, and fixed it here:

local seat = script.Parent
local guiName = "DoorControl318"
local gui = script:WaitForChild(guiName)
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local lastplr 

-- each time the Occupant property of the seat fires...
seat:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Occupant"):Connect(function()
	if seat.Occupant ~= nil then
		local char = seat.Occupant.Parent
     	local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
		local cloned = gui:Clone()
		-- cloned.TrainName.Value = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name
		cloned.Parent = player.PlayerGui
		lastplr = {player, cloned} -- store player and Gui in array
	else 

        print("player left")
        if lastplr then -- verify lastplayer is not nil
		lastplr[2]:Destroy() -- since the table's numerically indexed, we know lastplr[2] will be the Gui
		lastplr = nil
	 end
  end
end)
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