How to make a player spawn only when Play button is pressed?

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Hi guys,

I have a problem where I want it so that the game only starts when the play button is pressed.

[Isaque232]

I’m pretty sure you can set CharacterAutoLoads (Property of game.Players) to false so they will not respawn, then you can use Player:LoadCharacter() to make them respawn.

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Where would you find LoadCharacter?

[Isaque232]

LoadCharacter isn’t a property, It’s a function of player that basically respawns it.

Since when you disable CharacterAutoLoads the StarterGui does not get automatically copied to PlayerGui, I recommend using colbert’s solution:

How can I use GUIs with Players.CharacterAutoLoads set to false?

The current marked solution suggests using the client to populate PlayerGuis initially when all LocalScripts start executing and parenting all your Guis to a LocalScript. This is fine, but the thing that doesn’t sit with me right is that you’re effectively changing the structure of your game to work around one issue and the behaviour isn’t like what the engine does. While the server’s only involvement with StarterGui is to copy those Guis and place them into the PlayerGui each time CharacterAdd…

After you are good with the GUI, you can place a localscript on it that triggers a RemoteEvent on the Server which uses LoadCharacter on the player who called.
Here I put the RemoteEvent in workspace and a ServerScript inside it. (Feel free to change the location)

--LocalScript inside GUI
local Button = script.Parent
Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	workspace.LoadEvent:FireServer()
end)

--ServerScript inside the RemoteEvent
script.Parent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	Player:LoadCharacter()
end)

Becareful though, exploiters may abuse this.
Also keep in mind disabling CharacterAutoLoads will cause players to not automatically respawn anymore, which you will have to make a script for them to respawn.

[Unspeakblegaming57 (Nik)]

Hello, I know its been a year but, how might I do this when a player joins but also load the UI so that they can press play?