Feb 28, 2024 · Can anyone explain simply what is the difference between character, humanoid, and player?

Nov 15, 2024 · I’m trying to get the Player.Character inside the Players.PlayerRemoving to get the value of an instance that is parented to the Character and save the data to a DataStore. However, the Players.PlayerRemoving only returns the Player instance, but not the Player.Character (The following code is in the same server-side script) Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player) -- detect when a ...

Jan 4, 2025 · The CharacterAdded and PlayerAdded scripting events are a beginner’s trap! You are almost guaranteed to run into issues the first time using them. I’ve seen this issue pop up for new programmers in my experience. This tutorial will help you understand the problem. TL;DR please don’t do this: -- naive method game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) player.CharacterAdded:Connect ...

Jun 17, 2021 · This is just an inquiry, and I want to make my code better. I was wondering why we use: local playerFromCharacter = playerService:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character) instead of doing this: local playerFromCharacter = playerService[character.Name] Does one of them cause more lag/problems than the other or is it just for convenience? They both work fine in my script.

May 10, 2023 · Hello; you read the title. I’ve been trying to understand what GetPlayerFromCharacter does in a script for the past couple of weeks but I haven’t made any progress in trying to understand what it does. Take this image from a YouTube tutorial I found for example, which supposably prints the name of the player that touches RedPart in the output. Lines 1-6 make perfect sense, with lines 1-2 ...

Jun 18, 2022 · alr man @EmbatTheHybrid alr said this but local player is ONLY for local scripts nice way to remember is that they both have the word local in it but if you wanna get the plr or character from studio you gotta know which one for example you wanna get the player FriendlyFrenchFry123 from studio then just do

Aug 15, 2023 · local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait() Hope this helps! WHOTEI (WHOTEI) August 15, 2023, 3:26pm

Jan 9, 2021 · Hi i want to clone player character but it didn’t work game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Chr) local Clone = Chr:Clone() Clone:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(Chr.Pr…

Jan 21, 2021 · I had some trouble with my local script, located in the StarterPlayerScript, as It would not execute when I’ve spawned. I’ve finally come to a solution; here’s the code → wait() local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer local character = player.Character if not character or not character.Parent then character = player.CharacterAdded:Wait() end My question is if there is a more efficient ...

Nov 7, 2020 · Basically you can get the Player by the Character, example when a player touches a part, then GetPlayerFromCharacter() can be used, but now i need to do the opposite, and get the character from player.