Should I do sounds effect on cilent or server

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I was making a fighting game but suddenly I think that what if it lags the server because I always spawn and deletes the sound effect folder?
If you guys can answer this small question then thank you, I dont want my game to have many lags!

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why are you deleting and spawning the sound effects folder in the first place?

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hi, just a question

how did you get that “UI designer” icon under your pfp?

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Go to Preferences, then choose on Flair. To join a group you can just go to my studio profile, and click one of the links in Groups on the far right

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Idk, Its just my coding that spawns a specific skill’s sound effect and later deletes it

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But if I do that would It lag?

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It may affect a bit, but probably not much of a problem. You could Play it then use debris service to clear them.

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I would typically always play anything audio related through the players Client or through a FireAllClients event, one of the main reasons you don’t want to handle unnecessary things on the Server if because handling things like VFX and Audio can cause strain and lag on the Server which can affect how the game performs for players.

It also depends on the scale of Audio you’re handling, if you’re rapidly spawning new Audio objects in the game from the Server it will affect performance however- Im sure on a smaller scale, playing audio on the Server is absolutely fine.

a good example of using FireAllClients would be:

  • a Player uses an Attack or Ability, when displaying the VFX (by also using FireAllClients) you can simultaneously play the Attack / Ability audio without using the Server at all
    (although you can do this on the server too, it would be more efficient to handle it all in one script)

an example of using a single Client for Audio would be:

  • making a “Mute All Music” setting, of course, if that ran on the Server it would mute all music for ALL players, however because it’s local to that Players Client, it only runs for them!

Hopefully this gives some insight to when you should use Client or Server audio :slight_smile:

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Tysmm, I’ll do cilent sided sfx more rather than server since the script spawns the SFX folder for a specific skill which can make the server lag

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Also can I ask, if I made effects in cilent sided that kind of spawns and destroy parts rapidly or something similar,does it lags the cilent too?
Since I am fixing bugs in my games and I saw the PartCache module post where they say if I do that it could potentially lags the game.

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basically anything to do with rapidly spawning parts / effects / objects should preferably be handled on the Client OR ALL Clients

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