Preventing player spawn

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#1

I’m trying to prevent my game from spawning the player until they’ve confirmed something on a GUI, or maybe even not spawn them at all. I’m not entirely sure how to go about this, and my search through the dev forum hasn’t come up with much. I don’t doubt it exists, but I haven’t been able to find it. Any help would be appreciated.

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#2

go to the player object and set the respawn time to 903248794389324432890342890432890342089

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#3

Will this allow them to still use UIs, or will they be unable to do anything at all until they’ve respawned?

#4

they wont be able to move. But you could make a script where the Ui will pop up when the player dies so yes.

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#5

Right. And is there a way to prevent the player from spawning when they first launch the game? The respawn timer only seems to apply to respawns after the initial spawn.

#6

Yes you could do that.e…eeeeee

#7

…Yes. I know. I am asking how to stop them from spawning the FIRST time. So when they join, they don’t spawn until a certain condition has been met.

#8

oh, just make a spawn location really far away from the map and make it so they move to a spawn after they do something.

#9

I found the CharacterAutoLoads toggle. I’m going to try that.

#10

Yeah I was going to say that is what you are looking for.

To spawn the player simply do

Player:LoadCharacterBlocking()

or

Player:LoadCharacterWithHumanoidDescription()

or

Player:LoadCharacter()

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#11

Yeah, this seems like the right direction, but the issue there is if I disable CharacterAutoLoads, the GUI doesn’t actually appear.

#12

AHA! I managed to clone the GUI to the local player in my setup script. Hopefully this works.

#13

Yes we’ll when a character is loaded everything in the Player backpack is reset and everything in the players GUI is reset too.

It’s a little annoying but the way to get around it is to make a Script (I recommend ReplicatedFirst which manually copies all StarterGUIi into player GUI

Oh and don’t forget to tick ResetOnSpawn for your ScreenGuis to be false too.

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#14

Sorry, here’s an example of what I did, for anyone reading this:

local function onPlayerJoin(player)
	
	-- CLONE GUI --
	-- Clones the GUI to the local player, so they can actually see it. --
	local gui = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
	local gameGui = game.StarterGui.ScreenGui:clone()
	gameGui.Parent = gui
end

game:GetService('Players').PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerJoin)
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