LogService MessageOut doesnt work ingame. What do i replace it with?

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#1

I want to replace the message outs that i used to play animations at the right moment because they do not work.
Here is the server and client scripts

Server:

local UpdateAmmoEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("UpdateAmmoCountGlock17")

local ammoLeft = 17
local reloading = false

local function reload(manual)
	if reloading then return end
	if ammoLeft == 17 then return end
	reloading = true
	ReloadSound:Play()
	if manual and ammoLeft == 0 then
		print("ReloadGlock17Empty")
	else
		print("ReloadGlock17NotEmpty")
	end
	wait(2.3)
	ammoLeft = 17
	UpdateAmmoEvent:FireAllClients(ammoLeft)
	reloading = false
end

function PlayFireSound()
	local NewSound = FireSound:Clone()
	local MuzzleFlash = script.Parent.Handle.MuzzleFlash.MuzzleEffect 
	NewSound.Parent = Handle
	NewSound:Play()
	MuzzleFlash:Emit(20)
	if ammoLeft == 0  then
		print("GunFiredGlock17Last")
	else
		print("GunFiredGlock17")
	end
	Debris:AddItem(NewSound, NewSound.TimeLength)
end

function Fire(direction)
	if Tool.Parent:IsA("Backpack") then return end

	local directionalCF = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(), direction)

	if ammoLeft > 0 and not reloading then
		local direction = (directionalCF * CFrame.fromOrientation(0, 0, RNG:NextNumber(0, TAU)) * CFrame.fromOrientation(math.rad(RNG:NextNumber(MIN_BULLET_SPREAD_ANGLE, MAX_BULLET_SPREAD_ANGLE)), 0, 0)).LookVector

		local humanoidRootPart = Tool.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart", 1)
		local myMovementSpeed = humanoidRootPart.Velocity
		local modifiedBulletSpeed = (direction * BULLET_SPEED)

		if PIERCE_DEMO then
			CastBehavior.CanPierceFunction = CanRayPierce
		end

		local simBullet = Caster:Fire(FirePointObject.WorldPosition, direction, modifiedBulletSpeed, CastBehavior)
		ammoLeft -= 1

		UpdateAmmoEvent:FireAllClients(ammoLeft)
		PlayFireSound()
	else
		reload(false)  -- Automatically triggered reload
	end
end

function ManualReload()
	if ammoLeft == 1 then
		reload(false)  -- Trigger automatic reload animation
	else
		reload(true)  -- Manually triggered reload
	end
end

Client:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local LogService = game:GetService("LogService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local function setupViewModel()
	-- Destroy existing viewmodel if it exists
	if workspace.CurrentCamera:FindFirstChild("ViewModelGlock17") then
		workspace.CurrentCamera.ViewModelGlock17:Destroy()
	end

	-- Clone the viewmodel from ReplicatedStorage
	local viewmodel = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("ViewModelGlock17"):Clone()
	viewmodel.Parent = workspace.CurrentCamera

	-- Get the Animator
	local animator = viewmodel:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):WaitForChild("Animator")

	-- Load the animations
	local Ranimation = Instance.new("Animation")
	Ranimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://72523018738433" -- Replace with your animation ID
	local RanimationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(Ranimation)
	local REanimation = Instance.new("Animation")
	REanimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://97988611711973" -- Replace with your animation ID
	local REanimationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(REanimation)
	local REEmptyAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
	REEmptyAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://120156932108231" -- Replace with your animation ID for empty reload
	local REEmptyAnimationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(REEmptyAnimation)
	local RanimationL = Instance.new("Animation")
	RanimationL.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://86438961102865" -- Replace with your animation ID for last shot
	local RanimationLTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(RanimationL)
	local WalkAnimation = Instance.new("Animation")
	WalkAnimation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://111477854942676" -- Replace with your animation ID
	local WalkAnimationTrack = animator:LoadAnimation(WalkAnimation)
	WalkAnimationTrack.Looped = true
	-- Function to stop all playing animations
	local function stopAllAnimations()
		for _, track in ipairs(animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
			track:Stop()
		end
	end
	
	local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
	
	local function moveCameraUp()
		local currentCFrame = camera.CFrame
		local newCFrame = currentCFrame * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(1), 0, 0)
		camera.CFrame = newCFrame
	end
	
	-- Function to play the animations
	local function RecoilAnimation()
		stopAllAnimations()
		RanimationTrack:Play()
	end
	local function ReloadAnimation()
		stopAllAnimations()
		REanimationTrack.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action4
		REanimationTrack:Play()
	end
	local function ReloadEmptyAnimation()
		stopAllAnimations()
		REEmptyAnimationTrack:Play()
	end
	local function LastShotAnimation()
		stopAllAnimations()
		RanimationLTrack:Play()
	end

	-- Lock position at the end of the last shot animation
	RanimationLTrack.Stopped:Connect(function()
		local lastFrameCFrame = viewmodel.PrimaryPart.CFrame -- Assuming PrimaryPart is set
		viewmodel:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(lastFrameCFrame)
	end)

	-- Connect the log messages to the animations
	LogService.MessageOut:Connect(function(message, messageType)
		if message == "GunFiredGlock17" then
				moveCameraUp()
				RecoilAnimation()
			end
		if message == "GunFiredGlock17Last" then
				moveCameraUp()
				LastShotAnimation()
			end
		if message == "ReloadGlock17NotEmpty" then
			ReloadAnimation()
		elseif message == "ReloadGlock17Empty" then
			ReloadEmptyAnimation()
		end
	end)

	-- Function to handle walking animation
	local function updateWalkingAnimation()
		if character.Humanoid.MoveDirection.Magnitude > 0 then
			if not WalkAnimationTrack.IsPlaying then
				WalkAnimationTrack:Play()
			end
		else
			if WalkAnimationTrack.IsPlaying then
				WalkAnimationTrack:Stop()
			end
		end
	end

	-- Connect the walking animation update to the RenderStepped event
	RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(updateWalkingAnimation)
end


-- Function to handle tool equipped
local function onToolEquipped(tool)
	if tool.Name == "Glock 17" then
		setupViewModel()
	end
end

-- Connect the tool equipped event
player.Character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Tool") then
		onToolEquipped(child)
	end
end)

-- Handle tool replacement
player.Character.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(child)
	if child:IsA("Tool") and child.Name == "Glock 17" then
		setupViewModel()
	end
end)
#2

Why are you using LogService to begin with? You should be triggering the animations using game events or direct function calls rather than relying on log messages.

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#3

This is pretty strange to me too

It says right at the top of the documentation that it shouldn’t be used for any important game logic

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#4

How come you’re just not using remote events…?

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#5

It just seemed the easiest to me. The other ones seemed confusing or i didnt know how to use them

#6

You should learn how to use remote events, they’re pretty important and not that complicated. You can find the documentation here, and a youtube tutorial here.

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#7

watch some tutorials on RemoteEvents/RemoteFunctions, and read the docs for them to get a bit of a better idea.

They’re pretty straightforward after you use them once or twice.

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#8

Oh and i heard that they cant be fired on server scripts and i use a server script of the fire, reload and audio functions. Will this work?

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#9

They can be fired from the server or the client

Edit: A serverscript cannot fire an event to another serverscript and the client can’t fire events to itself, it can only be one-way from either direction:
Client->Server or Server->Client

That would be what BindableEvents are for.

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#10

Use a global variable that references an event. That way you don’t have to reference the event repeatedly. Other than for this use case I don’t recommend using globals

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#11

is the firing an event in server this? Glock17Fire:FireAllClients()

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#12

Yeah, if you want to trigger a sound/animation to play for all the clients to keep some of the load off of the server, you’d use that once the server picks up that someone is firing a weapon from an event fired by the client.

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#13

You can also fire to a specific player if you just want something to happen for them.

Event:FireClient(player, yourArg, yourOtherArg, ...)
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#14

is this recieving of the event good?

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local FireNotEmpty = ReplicatedStorage["Glock 17 RE"]:WaitForChild("Glock17Fire")

FireNotEmpty.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
	moveCameraUp()
	RecoilAnimation()
end)
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#15

ooo it works finally some good solution

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#16

Yep. Try it out with a few things and you’ll start getting the hang of how it works.

#17

Something to note also, is that the function in the event connection can use parameters sent over from the event

-- SERVER --
Event:FireClient(player, true, 10)

--------
-- CLIENT --
Event.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(arg1, arg2)
    if arg1 == true then
        Value += arg2
    else
        print("FAILED!")
    end
end)
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#18

That will be useful. Thx for help!

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#19

np, just make sure you mark one of these dudes’ replies as a solution so people don’t keep spamming replies lol

#20

hey, i still have one issue. so in the client (on the original post) theres a function called moveCameraUp and when i reequip the tool (destroy the vmodel and put it back to the camera) it just starts turning more and more times at the same time depending on how much i reequip it. so the recoil is being bigger than i want to. do u know why is that?

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