How would I have a Player Not Spawn in when the Game Starts, but then have them Respawn as Normal after?

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#1

I Already know about the Property CharacterAutoLoads, but I was wondering on how to setup this System, So what I’m trying to do is:

  1. Have a DataStore fetch the Players Data
    I have already did this part
    When the Player joins, get will get their Data, if there is no Data, they will get new Data

  2. Player Spawns In
    Here you could just use Player:LoadCharacter(), but what would i do after that?, because it i Enable CharacterAutoLoads it would make it so the Players will all Load In.

Would I have to set up a System where I have to Load the Players Character, or is there a Better way of doing this?

Would this work?

Humanoid.Died:connect(function()
   task.wait(5)
   Player:LoadCharacter()
end)
#2

Just run Player:LoadCharacter() on Humanoid.Died
Example:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
     player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
        local hum = char:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
        hum.Died:Connect(function()
            task.wait(3)
            player:LoadCharacter()
        end)

    end)
end)

This code would respawn the player after 3 seconds of their player dying.
So yes that code would work.

(Also don’t enable Players.CharacterAutoLoads after a player has loaded because then all players will automatically load in!)

#3

my question would be, why would you need to load the character when the data has finished loading? Couldn’t you just load the data while the character is loaded normally? Unless you are waiting for all the players’ data to finish loading before you start, lets say a storymode game, you can just use tables to hold all the loaded player’s datas, then check if all the datas are loaded before starting

#4

Loading Screen.

#5

Yes, your died connection would work perfectly. However, I advice that you put this connection in a single script, rather than having a script in every character.

I have modified a script from here that could help:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- Listen for PlayerAdded to get the player
      player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char) -- Listen for CharacterAdded to get the player's character
      local humanoid = char:WaitFoChild("Humanoid")

      humanoid.Died:Connect(function() -- Wait for player's character to die
         task.wait(5)
         player:LoadCharacter() -- Manually respawn player's character
      end)
   end)
end)
#6

I don’t know if that would work, but when I was testing out it still just spawned me in when I joined the Server