How to get a player? (from function)

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#1

Hello I am trying to Make a function getting the localplayer but I dont know how to!
I Cant seem to figure it out I would have to mess up my game to do it…
help would be Cool!

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#2

This is kinda useless because you can just easily get it with game.Players.LocalPlayer But here it is

It works on both client and server, But make it client

Local script / Script ( RunContext > Client )

local function GetPlayer()
	return game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer or game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChildOfClass("Player")
end

Here is how you use it

local Player = GetPlayer()

print(Player.Name)
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#3

You don’t actually need a “function” to find this, there is a built-in variable that luau provides, all you need to do is execute it.

local LocalPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer
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#5

I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to him because he said he doesn’t know how to summon the local player

#6

If you’re doing it from the client it is very simple

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
print("Yeah! We got "..Player.Name.."!")

From server side you could use:

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
print("Yeah! We got "..Player.Name.."!")
end)

Or you could fire a remote event from client to server. There are multiple ways.

#7

Just to let Y’all know, its a one player per server game.

#8

In that case,

local Player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()[1]

This should give you the player, server or local side, in a one player game.

#9

thanks I will get back to you.