Is there any way to still show a gui when BindToClose?

Wizertex · February 14, 2020, 10:04pm

Hello!
So, I’m wondering if there is option to show a gui when game:BindToClose?
Basically, I want to create shutdown system which teleports players to another place, and that gui would be displayed. But I don’t know how to do that on game bind to close.
It just disappears if I do it.

Thank you.

erukisha · February 14, 2020, 11:19pm

Hi so from the looks of it your trying to make your own version of a Soft Shutdown, Merely has an open sourced version and I think it is basically what you are looking for and you edit it to fit your needs!

Wizertex · February 14, 2020, 11:34pm

This is sadly not working for me. It just shuts down the server. Is there any way to fix it?

viindicater · February 14, 2020, 11:35pm

Oh, I did see that before, but read it doesn’t work anymore. Just tested it, can confirm it’s working.

Wizertex · February 14, 2020, 11:50pm

I’ve made an alternative with a command that teleports players to another place and then back with messaging service.

viindicater · February 14, 2020, 11:53pm

EDIT: Actually, even the soft shutodown should work, the wiki says “The game will wait a maximum of 30 seconds for all bound functions to complete running before shutting down. After 30 seconds, the game will shut down regardless if all bound functions have completed or not.”
I’ll do a bit further testing brb.

EDIT2: Seems to be working fine.

erukisha · February 14, 2020, 11:57pm

I pasted the raw source from the github and it worked just fine for me without having to edit any of the code.

https://gyazo.com/eb0eb32642ad36f611d385a214b5fdc6

github.com

MerelyRBLX/ROBLOX-Lua/blob/master/SoftShutdown.lua

--[[
	SoftShutdown 1.2
	Author: Merely
	
	This system lets you shut down servers without losing a bunch of players.
	When game.OnClose is called, the script teleports everyone in the server
	into a reserved server.
	
	When the reserved servers start up, they wait a few seconds, and then
	send everyone back into the main place.
	
	I added wait() in a couple of places because if you don't, everyone will spawn into
	their own servers with only 1 player.
--]]

local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

if (game.VIPServerId ~= "" and game.VIPServerOwnerId == 0) then
	-- this is a reserved server without a VIP server owner

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Wizertex · February 15, 2020, 2:02pm

It’s not working for me
It just shuts down the server a few seconds later…

viindicater · February 15, 2020, 4:16pm

did you copy-paste the script into a script in serverscriptservice (workspace is fine but serverscriptservice is where all game scripts should be)?

Wizertex · February 15, 2020, 4:28pm

Well, if It helps you, I have DataStore2, which also has its own BindToClose event …

viindicater · February 15, 2020, 4:30pm

My game also has another bindtoclose on my datastore script, still worked for me

Wizertex · February 15, 2020, 5:48pm

This is what I always get

viindicater · February 15, 2020, 6:27pm

I don’t know what else to tell you, maybe datastore2 has a force shutdown? Try it in a place without datastore2.

yungpharma · March 31, 2020, 10:34pm

Sorry about necroposting, but I found the problem. Apparently, when DataStore2 does BindToClose it parents the player to nil, thus causing the player removing event to be triggered, which then prevents the soft shutdown script to not teleport the players. @Kampfkarren any solution to this?

KdudeDev · June 3, 2020, 11:22am

Again sorry for the necropost, but I found a solution to this.

Search all scripts for “.parent = nil” go to the one from the Datastore2 script and comment/remove it. Then set up your own .BindToClose function in your saving script, and save everything. Then you can also have UI show up.

yungpharma · June 5, 2020, 7:33pm

The only problem with that is the fact that you’re also going to have some data loss issues, when I tested that there were data loss issues for me.