Getting player from server sided script?

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#1

I wanna know how I would get the player from a server sided script (The server size is 1). so far I’ve just been doing

local localPlayers = Players:GetPlayers() 
local player = localPlayers[1]

But that doesn’t work very well. What other ways could I get the player?

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#2

it should work fine, as long as there is a player in the game

#3

You can always do

local player = nil

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    player = plr
end)

Or of course if you have a hit detection for a character you can use:

game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
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#4

You could use FindFirstChildOfClass:
local player = game.Players:FindFirstChildOfClass("Player").

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#5

Yes but that would get a random player not the local player plus if it does get the local player it is done nearly the exact same way op did it originally

#6

The goal of the script is to get the one player out of a server size of one. @ibonkusomuch’s solution is completely valid in this scenario for a server size of one player.

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#7

the poster literally said the server size was 1, wth

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#8

My bad I didn’t see that he said it was a server size of one. Sorry. In that case you guys are correct. Now I’m wondering why is this question posted if the op can just use game.Players:GetChildren()[1] (like they said) to get the player if it’s a server size of 1 (it seems like it should work fine)

#9

I think this works best:

local player = game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Wait()

This will yield the code until the player joins

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#10

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you :grin:

#11

in case the player is already in the game you can do this instead

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players:GetPlayers()[1] or Players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
#12

Sorry for the necro bump, but Players:GetPlayers()[1] Only gets the first player of the server.

#13

It’s a Server Size of one. Don’t worry, I said the same thing before lol: