Trail not appearing to other players

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#1

Hi i tried making a simple dash script, it works but i decided to add a trail effect when players are dashing.
it’s working but i noticed the trail wont appear to other players
(the script is in StarterCharacterScripts

local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local debounce = false
local left_arm = character:WaitForChild("Left Arm") :: BasePart
local right_arm = character:WaitForChild("Right Arm") :: BasePart

local left_grip = left_arm.LeftGripAttachment
local left_shoulder = left_arm.LeftShoulderAttachment

local right_grip = right_arm.RightGripAttachment
local right_shoulder = right_arm.RightShoulderAttachment


local trail1 = Instance.new("Trail", script.Parent)
trail1.Name = "trail1"
local trail2 = Instance.new("Trail", script.Parent)
trail2.Name = "trail2"


uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, processed)
	if debounce or processed then
		return
	end

	if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
		debounce = true
		humanoid.WalkSpeed += 25
		script.Sound.Playing = true
		trail1.Parent = character
		trail2.Parent = character
		trail1.Parent = left_arm
		trail2.Parent = right_arm
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment0 = left_grip
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment1 = left_shoulder
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment0 = right_grip
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment1 = right_shoulder
		
		task.wait(0.5)
		humanoid.WalkSpeed -= 25
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment0 = nil
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment1 = nil

		right_arm.trail2.Attachment0 = nil
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment1 = nil
	end

	task.wait(1.5)
	debounce = false
end)
#2

You need to do the trail applying to character inside server script because local script only shows to that player only, Use remote event.

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#3

You defined your trail in a LocalScript, meaning it will only show for the client.
Use a RemoteEvent to make it instead:

local createtrail = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").createtrail
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local debounce = false
local left_arm = character:WaitForChild("Left Arm") :: BasePart
local right_arm = character:WaitForChild("Right Arm") :: BasePart

local left_grip = left_arm.LeftGripAttachment
local left_shoulder = left_arm.LeftShoulderAttachment

local right_grip = right_arm.RightGripAttachment
local right_shoulder = right_arm.RightShoulderAttachment


createtrail:FireServer(script.Parent)


uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, processed)
	if debounce or processed then
		return
	end

	if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
		debounce = true
		humanoid.WalkSpeed += 25
		script.Sound.Playing = true
		trail1.Parent = character
		trail2.Parent = character
		trail1.Parent = left_arm
		trail2.Parent = right_arm
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment0 = left_grip
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment1 = left_shoulder
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment0 = right_grip
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment1 = right_shoulder
		
		task.wait(0.5)
		humanoid.WalkSpeed -= 25
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment0 = nil
		left_arm.trail1.Attachment1 = nil

		right_arm.trail2.Attachment0 = nil
		right_arm.trail2.Attachment1 = nil
	end

	task.wait(1.5)
	debounce = false
end)

Script in ServerScriptService:

local replicatedstorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
replicatedstorage.createtrail.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, parent)
	local trail1 = Instance.new("Trail", parent)
	trail1.Name = "trail1"
	local trail2 = Instance.new("Trail", parent)
	trail2.Name = "trail2"
end)
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