How to find PlayerScripts with ClickDetector?

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#1

I am trying to create a block in workspace that whenever you click it, something changes in the script that is in the playerscripts.

script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.PlayerScripts.Main.Target.Mesh.MeshType = Enum.MeshType.Sphere
end)

for some reason, it doesn’t detect the playerscripts when I click it, and instead shows an error that states PlayerScripts is not a valid member of Players.MyName. Does anyone know why this is happening? I’ve made scripts in the past that add a tool to a player’s backpack through a workspace button, so I don’t know what the problem is.

#3

I’m not changing any UI. It’s just a part with a script under the workspace, accessing something in PlayerScipts.

#5

I’m changing something that’s parented UNDER the script, not inside of the script itself.

#6

What is that thing? Provide some screenshots so we could see…

#7

The target is ‘that thing’.

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#8

Is this written in a local script?

#9

This is inside of a ServerScript.

#11

You’re unable to see PlayerScripts, or at least reference it the way you have on the server to my knowledge. Below is what you’d see on your server for the player:

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Instead, on MouseClick you can fire to the client, which will allow you to reference PlayerScripts.

#12

I meant the script was a server script, not inside of ServerScriptService.

#13

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#14

Is this screenshot from the client, or the server?

#15

My bad, it’s from the client.

You are probably right, he can’t access that from the server

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#16

You can’t access that from the server, you could insert a folder instead when the player joins, and parent the local script into that folder

#17

Then how would I access it? 30

#18

As I said, you could insert a folder into the player when he joins, and then parent the local script into it.

Or make a clone of that local script and then parent it into that folder.

And then you’d be able to access from that folder.

#19

You should do what @alphadoggy111 said, have a RemoteEvent with a server script and a local script. The server script fires to the remote event when a player presses the button, and the hooked up local script executes the code to modify PlayerScripts.

#20

I just now saw @alphadoggy111’s edit, I agree with that way,
if you want to access from that folder [PlayerScripts], do what he said.

If you want an alternative way[through a diff folder], you can do what I said.

#21 
local clickPart = workspace:WaitForChild"Part"
local clickDetector = clickPart:WaitForChild"ClickDetector"

local function onClicked(player)
	local playerScripts = player:WaitForChild"PlayerScripts"
end

clickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(onClicked)

Local script inside StarterPlayerScripts. No RemoteEvent required.

#22

Hey, I have noticed that you don’t put “()” outside of the instances, is it a typo or is it working like that aswell?

#23

https://www.lua.org/pil/5.html

If the function has one single argument and this argument is either a literal string or a table constructor, then the parentheses are optional.

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