How do I spawn something when a key is pressed

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#1

I’m trying to make it so that if you either press Q or J a banana peel appears in your current position, I’m experiencing some issues though.

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(keypress)
	if keypress.UserInputType.EnumType == Enum.KeyCode.J or keypress.UserInputType.EnumType == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
		local repli = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

		repli.bananaPeel:FireServer(plr)
		
	end
end)

this is the local script

local replicatedstorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
replicatedstorage.bananaPeel.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(player)
	local peel = storage.BananaPeel:Clone()
	peel.Parent = workspace
	peel.Position = plr.Character.RightLeg
end)
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#2

Should be keypress.KeyCode that’s an issue

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#3

anything else i can do, fixed this but it still doesnt spawn

#4

Player already is the “plr” so remove that. Other than that any errors?

#5

In the server script, put a print in the top and print the player, if anything at all prints then it’s an issue with your clone script, else it’s your key script.

#6

This is likely the cause of the script not working. The argument passed to GetPlayerFromCharacter is the player object, not the character

#7

Look who I found, a wild FrancoBritishAI. Hi.

replicatedstorage.bananaPeel.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)

As @domboss37 and @escapethepaw already said:
Whenever you call :FireServer(), the script automatically passes the player as an argument. So, when you’re doing function(player), that player already is the player. There is no need to define a plr variable, you can just do peel.Position = player.Character.RightLeg.

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#8

I fixed your scripts for you just copy and paste these in.
Server Script

local replicatedstorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
replicatedstorage.bananaPeel.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,char)
	
	local peel = game.ServerStorage:WaitForChild("BananaPeel"):Clone()
	peel.Parent = workspace
	peel.Position = char:WaitForChild("Right Leg").Position
end)

Local Script

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = plr.Character
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(keypress)
	if keypress.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.J or keypress.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
		local repli = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

		repli.bananaPeel:FireServer(Character)

	end
end)
#9

Here’s a list of issues I found within your scripts:

1 In the local script you added the player in the FireServer function.
You don’t need to do this sense Roblox does this automatically.
2 You put UserInputType instead of Keycode. You wouldn’t need the type of input the users giving you sense you were only detecting if a certain key is pressed.
3 When you were setting the position of the peel you didn’t set it to the right leg’s position. When setting the position of a object to another you always need both objects positions.

There’s more I found but everyone else who contributed to this post already found them. I hope you learn from this experience and grow has a programmer!

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