How would I change the camera script once you enter a new area

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#1

I am making a game that has multiple areas with in it. To keep it simple lets just say there are outdoor and indoor areas.

I am attempting to make it to where the camera works differently in two different areas. So outside its free cam, while inside its a top down view. It isn’t different camera angles, its entirely different systems.

I’ve attempted to make a script that enables and disables the scripts, but scripts in the workspace cant access anything in StarterPlayerScripts (where my camera scripts are).

All I really need to know is how I can get a script to access scripts in StarterPlayerScripts. If anyone can provide useful information that would be perfect as google isn’t serving me well, and neither are any posts on the forum.

#2

StarterPlayerScripts are located in

game.Players[PlayerNameHere].PlayerScripts

So all you need to access the StarterPlayerScripts is player’s name

#3

Okay! That was pretty quick. I am wondering this is specific to one playername. Scripts can get the name of a player and insert them into the script when its ran right?

#4

Yes, all players have different PlayerScripts (Their inside is same but they are run in different locations) and yes for the second question too you can get a player’s name by scripts

#5

Thank you so much! Im not really well versed in the more technical side of scripting (if you can call it that). So thanks for assisting.

#6

You usually are able to put scripts both into StarterGui, StarterCharacterScripts, or StarterPlayerScripts

#7

Thank you too! Ill try this along with HeYSeNHeLIO_TR’s suggestion

#8

So, I came up with this script. But it returns with an error.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
		game.Players[player.name].PlayerScripts.CameraScript.enabled = false
	end
end)

Error is: PlayerScripts is not a valid member of Player “Players.Xenaside”

I also should mention that I tried manually enabling and disabling the camera scripts while playing and the other script never takes effect when I enable it. The only reason I can think of this being an issue is that the other script needs to be ran or called. But I’m not entirely sure on how I would go about doing this.

#9

I just realized that you can’t reach “PlayerScripts” folder by normal scripts, you have to use local scripts to reach it.

But you can use RemoteEvents too, just create a RemoteEvent inside ReplicatedStorage and paste this code into the script.Parent.Touched function:

if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
    local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
    local Event = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
    local Player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
    local PlayerName = Player.Name
    Event:FireClient(PlayerName, "enable")
end

and create a LocalScript inside StarterPlayerScripts and paste this code here:

    local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
    local Event = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
    local CameraScript = script.Parent:WaitForChild("CameraScript")
    Event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(PlayerName, EnableOrDisable)
        if EnableOrDisable == "enable" and PlayerName = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name then
            CameraScript.Enabled = true
        elseif EnableOrDisable == "disable" and PlayerName = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name then
            CameraScript.Enabled = false
        end
    end)

these scripts may not work first try, I didn’t test it but they should enable the CameraScript if they work and you can change Event:FireClient(PlayerName, "enable") toEvent:FireClient(PlayerName, "disable") to disable the CameraScript

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#10

Getting red underlines at “= game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name then”. Specifically the equals sign and then.

#11

My bad put == instead of =

30 letters limit

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#12

Alright thanks dude. I would of never gotten this far without you.

#13

Okay final thing, i know im asking alot. But in the script inside of the part it says “unable to cast value to object”. At line 8. Any idea of why this is happening?

#14

Can you send the full script

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#15 
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
		local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
		local Event = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
		local Player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
		local PlayerName = Player.Name
		Event:FireClient(Player.Name, "disable")
	end
end)

Its a little hacky cause I just put your script into the script I have.

#16

Try replacing :FireClient with :FireAllClients

#17

Doesnt fire all clients mean it will fire for everyone in the game?

#18

But the client code checks if the PlayerName is equal to LocalPlayer’s name so there should be no problem I think

#19

Okay! Well it worked, really well actually! Ill get to fully applying this. Thanks for all the help my guy.

#20

You’re welcome :slight_smile: