How would I make a remote event affect only the person who fired it?

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#1

Guns in my game have their reload script in a local script, so if I try to play sounds from it, they will only play for the person who reloaded instead of anyone who is near that person.

As a way around, I used remote events to play the sounds from a server script but there’s a issue.
When the reload event is fired, the reload sound plays from everyone holding a gun instead of just the person that reloaded.

What I’m trying to achieve is to make the sound play only from the person who fired the event, how could I do this? I’m new to remote events.

Here’s the script that plays the reload sound.

game.ReplicatedStorage.ReloadSound.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
local fireSound = script.Parent.Handle.Reload
	 
fireSound:Play() 
end)
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#2

Do it in a serverscript like this

-- serverscript
--use
event:FireClient(player)

--localscript
event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(player)
    --your code
end)
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#3

You could just reference the Player’s Character provided inside the OnServerEvent function, which actually holds the Player Instance who fired it

All you’d really need to do is just confirm & reference that the Player’s Character is holding the tool to play the sound:

game.ReplicatedStorage.ReloadSound.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
    local Character = Player.Character
    local Tool = Character:FindFirstChild("ToolObjectHere")

    if Tool then
        Tool.Handle.Reload:Play()
    end
end)
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#4

It will run the sound for the server though I think she/he wants it to play for only the LocalPlayer

#5

I’m aware of that, playing it locally would only affect the client side & others won’t be able to hear the Reload sound

#6

I think thats what he/she wants as I read

#7

I want the sound to play for the server, anyone who is near the person that reloaded.

#8

Thank you so much for replying, I’ll try the solutions now and report back when I’m done.

#9

Ok I read wrong lol that is fine

#10

This worked perfectly for me! Thank you so much for the solution, @JackscarIitt! This was a problem I struggled with for way too long, and thank you @FrazedGreatness2 for replying as well.

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#11

Np I will be in any post you send I followed you :slight_smile:

#12

I had this similar issue for hours, and @JackscarIitt response was the solution! I also added a character check ontop of the player check just to make sure it is the player. This was on the local script.