Please don't make us spawn a character to use TeleportService

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

@TheGamer101 I’ve seen that you may be working on the TeleportService API. Is it possible to not force the player to have a character spawned in order to teleport?

I’m not sure exactly what the requirements are, but if I disable CharacterAutoLoads the player will never teleport.

I want this because in Demented Defense I have 100 player servers where people create lobbies. To spawn characters is just not-needed (it’s 100% GUI based) and causes a lot of stress. Spawning characters just before teleport adds to latency when starting matches, which I also don’t want.

[TheGamer101]

If I remember correctly this is a bug left over from when you could call Teleport with a character instead of a player. I remember thinking about this a long time ago but I guess I didn’t fix it

I will definitely fix this.

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

Thank you!

[TheGamer101]

It looks like this has already been fixed.

I tested the following code in a PlayerScript:

wait(5)
local teleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
teleportService:Teleport(1818, game.Players.LocalPlayer)

Can you check to make sure teleporting without a character works in your game?

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

That’s not quite what I meant to communicate.

set game.Players.CharacterAutoLoads to false then try the reserved server teleport. (AKA Player.Character = nil)

[TheGamer101]

Yeah, that works.

game.Players.CharacterAutoLoads is false. I’m trying the following code on the server.

wait(10)

local TS = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
 
local code = TS:ReserveServer(game.PlaceId)
local players = Players:GetPlayers()
 
TS:TeleportToPrivateServer(game.PlaceId, code, players)

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

Oh wow, I just tested it on the same place file and it works, thanks!

For some reason at the time of the OP it wouldn’t teleport players.