How Do I Find "player" in a Script not a LocalScript?

[HexticDev (Sub2_HexticDev)]

How would i find example some like:

local player = what goes here?

[dthecoolest]

Depends.

If the script is in StarterPlayerScripts (runs once per game) you can do

game.Player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) 

end)

If the script is in StarterCharacterScripts (Runs every respawn, script parented under character model) you can do

local character = script.Parent
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)

You can also use remote events:

[SOLVED] Is there a way to get player from normal script?

From the server’s perspective, there isn’t “the player”, unless of course there’s only one player in the game. Very generally, a player (client-side) will Fire a RemoteEvent to the server indicating some particular action by a particular player. You can get the current players this way: local plyrsTbl = game.Players:GetPlayers() See:

[HexticDev (Sub2_HexticDev)]

Thank so much for this information I’m still learning about scripts been using LocalScripts

[changeno]

There are many ways to get the player from a server script, and most of the ways are listed in the thread below.

How to get the player from a server script? [Solved!]

So basically I am trying to get the player inside a server script so I can access their datastore and change values. I have heard about Remote Events but that’s only for getting data from local scripts to server scripts right? The datastore has been made in a module. This is what I currently have but I need to define the local player to the player but I don’t know how local tab = require(game.ServerScriptService.PlayerData) local player = local playerStats = tab.GiveData(player) local kills …

[HexticDev (Sub2_HexticDev)]

I’m just trying to make a simple UI text to show up on the screen for a few seconds using some similar to:

player.Name…” Owner Joined”

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

I don’t see why you need the server for this. A LocalScript works just fine:

--LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	--instead of printing use that in a UI property or something
	print(player.Name.." joined!")
end)

[apictrain0]

Its not really necessary for a script to be linked to a single player, but unless you have it in starterplayer, you cna just uae script.parent. a regular script isnt really the job to handle things just for the llayer like UI and Tweening.

[Spafuji]

I think that you’re a bit abusing server scripts as others mentioned. But there’s a way - for example, you can place it inside StarterPlayerScripts.

local player = script.Parent.Parent
--script's located in game.Players.A.PlayerScripts
print(player.Name)

or how others mentioned:

How Do I Find "player" in a Script not a LocalScript?

Depends. If the script is in StarterPlayerScripts (runs once per game) you can do game.Player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) end) If the script is in StarterCharacterScripts (Runs every respawn, script parented under character model) you can do local character = script.Parent local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character) You can also use remote events:

How to get the player from a server script? [Solved!]

So basically I am trying to get the player inside a server script so I can access their datastore and change values. I have heard about Remote Events but that’s only for getting data from local scripts to server scripts right? The datastore has been made in a module. This is what I currently have but I need to define the local player to the player but I don’t know how local tab = require(game.ServerScriptService.PlayerData) local player = local playerStats = tab.GiveData(player) local kills …

I also recommend you use search capabilities before posting.

[HexticDev (Sub2_HexticDev)]

I believe this worked lol! <3 Anyways, Thanks for the help, I confuse myself w this code having dyslexia isnt ideal LOL.