Help understanding client-server interaction and touched event

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#1

I’m new to roblox development and am currently designing a round-based game. I feel that with my current knowledge I can execute this goal but I’d like to complete it with efficient, secure code that utilises remotes. I am still working towards fully understanding client-server interaction and remotes but I mostly have the basics down.

  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I have a part that, when touched, should fire a remote on the server that removes a player from a table stored on the server. This is replicating how I foresee a player being eliminated from the round i.e. they are struck by another player and removed from the table containing all players still in the round.

  2. What is the issue?
    From some searching, it appears that I can’t use a touched event in a local script. With that said, I can’t fire the server from a server script. How should the client and server be communicating here? Is this even a correct way of designing a round-based game? Anything able to help me understand how to get around this or an explanation of how my approach is wrong would be greatly appreciated.

This is the script that is the child of a part in the workspace:

local part = script.Parent

local function partTouched(otherPart)
	print("touched")
	local humanoid = otherPart.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
	if humanoid then
		game.ReplicatedStorage.playerEliminated:FireServer(otherPart.Parent)
	end
end

part.Touched:Connect(partTouched)

Here is the script in ServerScriptService that handles rounds:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local playerTable = game.Players:GetChildren()

local function updatedPlayers() 
	playerTable = game.Players:GetChildren()
	return playerTable
end

while true do 
	for i = 10, 0, -1 do
		print("Intermission: "..i)
		wait(1)
	end
	
	for _, player in pairs(updatedPlayers()) do 
		local character = player.Character
		character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = game.Workspace.mapSpawn.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,10,0)
		player.RespawnLocation = game.Workspace.lobbySpawn
	end
	
	for i = 10, 0, -1 do
		print("Round in progress: "..i)
		wait(1)
	end
	
	updatedPlayers()
	for _, player in pairs(playerTable) do
		player:LoadCharacter()
	end
	
end

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	table.remove(playerTable, player)
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.playerEliminated.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	table.remove(playerTable, player)
	print(player.." has been eliminated!")
end)
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#2

Can’t you reference the Part Script inside StarterPlayerScripts as a LocalScript that way? :thinking:

#3

I’m not aware of any communication via remotes that allows you to send something server to server(i’m sure theres some obscure way to do it though.) The easiest way to handle this problem is just referencing the part.Touched event in your server script service script.

There’s no need for communication between scripts if you’re able to keep it all in 1 script.

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#4

This is because local scripts don’t work in workspace
Just put the localscript in StarterPlayerScripts and reference the part through other means

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