SpawnLocation:OnPlayerSpawned()

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#1

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As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to detect when a player was spawned on a certain spawn location.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my experience using the forum because I would be able to create procedural meeting tables in the following scenario:

Players would start a party and get teleported to a new place. One by one they spawn in on a spawn location, and when they do it gets deleted, making them sit in the chair the spawn location was on and making sure no one else spawns there.

EDIT: this is my first post and did I do this right?

#2

No.

You posted an engine feature request. You can’t post features requests. You need to join the @AllowFeatureRequests group first.

The request you are asking for has not a lot of use cases and would be used very little so I doubt roblox would add it. Till then, just get the magnitude.

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#3

You have this in your own post and you didnt read it? :sob:

But yeah this would be pretty nice in some cases.

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#4

Instead of spawn locations, you should consider building an array of positions in the meeting room, and then removing them once a player spawns and gets placed in that location.

But if you’d like to use SpawnLocations still, If you have all the spawns in a folder, you could detect which one the player spawns at:

-- Server script in ServerScriptService
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local SpawnLocations = workspace:WaitForChild("SpawnLocationsFolder") -- Set this

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player : Player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character : Model)
        -- Wait for the character to load and for the HumanoidRootPart to be available
        local humanoidRootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") :: BasePart

        -- You may end up having a race condition depending on the internal logic of SpawnLocations so lets wait a frame:
        task.wait()

        -- Find the closest spawn location to the player's character
        local closestSpawnLocation = nil
        local closestDistance = math.huge
        for _, spawnLocation in ipairs(SpawnLocations:GetChildren()) do
            if spawnLocation:IsA("SpawnLocation") then
                -- Do a distance check to find the closest spawn location
                local distance = (humanoidRootPart.Position - spawnLocation.Position).Magnitude
                if distance < closestDistance then
                    closestDistance = distance
                    closestSpawnLocation = spawnLocation
                end
            end
        end

        if closestSpawnLocation then
            print("Found the closest spawn location: ", closestSpawnLocation)
            -- TODO: Do something now that you know where they spawned.
            
        else
            warn("No spawn locations found for player: " .. player.Name)
        end
    end)
end)
#5

You do realize this isn’t the right category? Why are you responding with an answer?

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