How do I make my tycoon button play a sound when purchased?

[Pish85 (rip_Zephyr)]

1. What do you want to achieve? I want to make it so that when a button in my tycoon is stepped on, it plays a sound.

2. What is the issue? My current solution produces 0 errors but doesn’t work at all.

3. What solutions have you tried so far? I tried firing an event on the client but it didnt play the sound.

button.PrimaryPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
				local playButtonSoundEvent = replicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("playButtonSoundEvent")
				local buttonPurchaseSound = replicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("buttonPurchaseSound")
				local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
				if not player then return end
				if plot:GetAttribute("Owner") ~= player.UserId then return end
				-- TO DO LIST!!! :)
				-- Remove currency
				-- Check if they have enough
				-- Give em the item
				-- Code below here that runs means what touched it was plot owner!
				-- THE END!!! :(
				local itemToBuyId = button:GetAttribute("ITEMTOBUYID")
				if not itemToBuyId then warn("goofy man you forget to add an id") return end
				
				for _, item in templateItems:GetChildren() do
					if item:GetAttribute("ID") == not itemToBuyId then continue end
						-- Correct item found! Wahoo!
						-- Clone item and reposition it.
						local itemClone = item:Clone()
						itemClone.Parent = itemsFolder
						
						local itemCFrame
						if itemClone:IsA("Model") then -- What kind of item is the itemClone?
							itemCFrame = itemClone:GetPivot() -- Models have no CFrame <:(
						elseif itemClone:IsA("BasePart") then
							itemCFrame = itemClone.CFrame
						end
						
						local relativeItemCFrame = templatePlot.CFrame:ToObjectSpace(itemCFrame)
						local worldCFrameOfNewPlot = plot.CFrame:ToWorldSpace(relativeItemCFrame)
						if itemClone:IsA("Model") then
						itemClone:PivotTo(worldCFrameOfNewPlot)
						elseif itemClone:IsA("BasePart") then
						itemClone.CFrame = worldCFrameOfNewPlot
						end
						playButtonSoundEvent:FireClient(player, buttonPurchaseSound)
						button:Destroy()
					end
				end)

This is the event script:

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local playButtonSoundEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("playButtonSoundEvent")
local buttonPurchaseSound = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("buttonPurchaseSound")

playButtonSoundEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, buttonPurchaseSound)
	buttonPurchaseSound:Play()
	print("yes!")
end)

This is what happens:

If you know how I can make this work please please reply down below I have tried fixing this for so long but it’s so hard .

[J_Angry]

That’s because buttonPurchaseSound is still in ReplicatedStorage, meaning when you play it, the player won’t hear the sound. Try cloning buttonPurchaseSound into the character, then play then sound:

local newButtonPurchaseSound = buttonPurchaseSound:Clone()
newButtonPurchaseSound.Parent = player.Character
newButtonPurchaseSound:Play()


-- destroy the sound after use

local debris = game:GetService("Debris")
debris:AddItem(newButtonPurchaseSound, newButtonPurchaseSound.TimeLength)

[Pish85 (rip_Zephyr)]

am i doing it wrong because it doesnt work

[Blacklight2010v14 (rohbot)]

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local playButtonSoundEvent = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("playButtonSoundEvent")
local buttonPurchaseSound = replicatedStorage:WaitForChild("buttonPurchaseSound")
local LocalPlayer=game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer

playButtonSoundEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
--No need to send the sound, it's already defined here
--Player isn't a parameter, it only defines which client to send to
  --parent sound item to player
  local newButtonPurchaseSound = buttonPurchaseSound:Clone()
  newButtonPurchaseSound.Parent = LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart
  newButtonPurchaseSound:Play()
  print("yes!")
  --destroy the sound after it finishes
  local debris = game:GetService("Debris")
  debris:AddItem(newButtonPurchaseSound, newButtonPurchaseSound.TimeLength)
end)

This is what the full client side code should look like. With this, change the FireClient line:

playButtonSoundEvent:FireClient(player)

[Pish85 (rip_Zephyr)]

I tried parenting it under ServerScriptService AND StarterPlayerScripts: SSS has no errors but doesnt work, and SPS says that OnServerEvent can only be used on the server

[barugas]

Should it not be parented under soundservice?

[Pish85 (rip_Zephyr)]

With sound service, we get no errors but it doesn’t work, similar to the issue with SSS

[Blacklight2010v14 (rohbot)]

Sorry, I messed up. The OnServerEvent should be OnClientEvent. It should be in StarterPlayerScripts.

[Pish85 (rip_Zephyr)]

Thank you SO MUCH FOR THE HELP ITS FINALLY WORKING!