RemoteEvent not working

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I have a script in ServerScriptService and a local script inside an NPC character which itself is in Workspace. I’m trying to fire a RemoteEvent in the script that makes the local script make the NPC character display a chat bubble

  2. What is the issue?

This function in the script works as “check1” is printed (I’m calling the function in another part of the script):

local Replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local comm = Replicated.NPCcomm

local function manageRegister(bot)
	local user = bot:GetAttribute("assigned")
	local plr = game.Players[user]
	
	comm:FireAllClients(user, "Send", "Wave")
	print("check1")
end

But this is everything in localScript, and it does not work. I know this because “check2” is not being printed.

local TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")
local Replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local comm = Replicated.NPCcomm

comm.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(one, two, three)
	print("check2")
	TextChatService:DisplayBubble(script.Parent.Head, three)
end)

There are no errors at all so I’m not sure how to fix this, any help is appreciated!

#2

There is nothing wrong with the scripts but maybe try to add :WaitForChild for the comm remote event

local comm = Replicated:WaitForChild("NPCcomm")

and make sure that the player exists before continuing:

if plr then 
   comm:FireAllClients(user, "Send", "Wave") 
   print("check1") 
end
#3

Thank you so much - I added the :WaitForChild but it still doesn’t work… There’s nothing wrong with the player existing as “check1” is still being printed. There are no errors as well.

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#4

Okay so do you have any other scripts on the client side using same remote?

#5

Check to make sure your ‘user’ value is correct. Try printing that.

#6

I think that might have been the problem - what I was doing was keeping a local script inside the template NPC and making multiple scripts for each NPC. When I tried moving the LocalScript to StarterPlayerScripts and kept it as one script for all NPCs it just started to work. Thank you all so much!

Just wondering; why doesn’t the localScript work if I have multiple scripts using the same remote (as that was the issue)?

#7

If multiple scripts are connected to the same RemoteEvent, they might overwrite each other’s connections, leading to other scripts not receiving the event.

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#8

Thank you so much, that makes sense. I thought that all the scripts would run.

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#9

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