How to get a list of all the players in game

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#1

I want to get a list of all the players in a game, and put it in a scrolling GUI, with a bunch of buttons on it that indicate the player’s names. How would I get the correct amount of GUIs to appear?

Thanks!

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#2

For loop and GetPlayers. See existing leaderboard free models for examples of how to make leaderboards that support arbitrary numbers of players.

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#3

Already made a similar post about this.

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#4

You can use a for loop (just like what @colbert2677 has said above), to get all the players that are currently in the server.
You will only need one button for your player list. Place that button in ReplicatedStorage. Then insert a LocalScript inside your Scrolling GUI (in the ScrollingFrame). Also, let’s assume the button name is PlayerButton.
Then you would use the following code below:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Button = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlayerButton") -- change the name to the actual name of the button
local ScrollingFrame = script.Parent -- make sure your script is inside the ScrollingFrame

local function PlayerList(player)
	local CloneButton = Button:Clone()
	CloneButton.Name = player.Name
	CloneButton.Parent = ScrollingFrame
	CloneButton.Visible = true
	-- im not sure what you have in your button, so you do the other stuff here
end

local function PlayerJoined(player)
	PlayerList(player)
end

for _, players in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	PlayerList(players)
end

local function PlayerLeft(plr)
	for i, v in pairs(ScrollingFrame:GetChildren()) do
		if v.Name == plr.Name then
			v:Destroy()
		end
	end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerJoined)
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(PlayerLeft)
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#5

To my great disappointment, this is not working. Here’s my code:
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService(“ReplicatedStorage”)

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Button = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlayerButton")

local ScrollingFrame = script.Parent

local function PlayerList(player)

local CloneButton = Button:Clone()

CloneButton.Name = player.Name

CloneButton.Text = CloneButton.Name

CloneButton.Parent = ScrollingFrame

CloneButton.Visible = true

end

local function PlayerJoined(player)

PlayerList(player)

end

for _, players in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do

PlayerList(players)

end

local function PlayerLeft(plr)

for i, v in pairs(ScrollingFrame:GetChildren()) do

if v.Name == plr.Name then

v:Destroy()

end

end

end

wait(3)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerJoined)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(PlayerLeft)

Are they stacking on top of each other? Because I only see the first one :slightly_frowning_face:

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#6

You mean nothing works at all? Any errors? Does the button clone at least?

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#7

The buttons appear but they are stacked on top of each other. How would I fix that?

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#8

Each cloned button should be ‘y’ position below the previous button cloned, so you have to add a line that does that in the loop

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#9

I’m sorry, but how exactly would I get around this?

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#10

Use a UIListLayout.

For more info:
UIListLayout (roblox.com)

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#11

Thank you so much! I will check this out.

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