Im guessing im doing this COMPLETELY wrong, but how would i do this correctly | Roblox Studio Community | Page 1

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:47 AM

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task.wait(1)

local Positions = {
    Vector3.new(0,0,0)}

for i, pos in pairs(Positions) do
    print(#Positions)
end

local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

for i = 1, #players, #Positions do
    players[i].Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Positions[i]
end

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i want it to go through the list of all the players and go through all the list of the positions

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set the first player in the lists position to the first position in the position table

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and so on

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but i honestly got like no clue how to do this

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:48 AM

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like set their position to the first position

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?

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oh wait i see

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:48 AM

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like set the first players position to the first position

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:48 AM

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and second player to the second position?

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:49 AM

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yes

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:49 AM

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and so on

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:49 AM

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yep

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for my main menu

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:49 AM

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is this client or server

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:50 AM

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server sided

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:50 AM

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alr

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ima expiriment around in studio to see if a i cant get it work

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ing

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:50 AM

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ight

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also the first for loop in that script is completely useless lol just was testing smth

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:51 AM

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what is the purpose of the task.wait(1)?

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alr

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:51 AM

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bold vault what is the purpose of the task.wait(1)?

idk to be honest

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it was when i was testing something else

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i should prob remove that

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local Positions = {
    Vector3.new(0,0,0)}

local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

for i = 1, #players, #Positions do
    players[i].Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position = Positions[i]
end

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so yea this is what im working w rn

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ServerScriptService.Positions:13: attempt to index nil with 'HumanoidRootPart'

and this is an error im currently getting

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:52 AM

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when does this code run?

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the second the game starts?

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or when a player joins

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:52 AM

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preferrably when the game starts

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i atleast think

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:52 AM

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ill just put it in a function

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:52 AM

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ok

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:52 AM

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so you can use it whenever

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:53 AM

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im pretty new to scripting

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so its kinda confusing to me

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:53 AM

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yeah dont worry i got you

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:53 AM

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👍

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btw how do you detect the second the game starts?

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do you just detect when a aplayer is added or something

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:53 AM

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the game starts the second the first player is added

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:53 AM

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ok

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:54 AM

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any code on the server that isnt in functions or waits will run instantly

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because the server loads before the client

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:55 AM

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yea

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so would we have to put this in a function

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:55 AM

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well if you keep it out of a function then it would just run instantly

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before the player joins

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:55 AM

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ooh

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alright

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so we will put it under a game.players.playeradded:connect(function() ?

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or a function

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then connect it to game.players.playeradded

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below it

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:56 AM

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problem with doing that is whenever a player is added it will run

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so if a player joins when there is already 5 others in the game it will run

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:57 AM

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so what if you just put a wait for a few seconds before the script is ran

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:57 AM

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pretty much think of .ChildAdded()

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its tricky cause if the first player joining has trash internet it can take alot longer than a few seconds

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:58 AM

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thats true

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dont we want the script to run though every time someone new is added so then it adds them to like the third position, and so o

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on

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 1:58 AM

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ima see if there isnt a event that detects when the game is started

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cuz there is one when it closes

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 1:59 AM

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alright

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@bold vault if there isnt, I actually do have like a 10 second cutscene at the beginning for everyone every time they join

austere willowBOT Mar 20, 2023, 2:03 AM

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studio ** You are now Level 4! ** studio

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:03 AM

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Is waiting like 10 seconds enough

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For horrible internet

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:03 AM

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people have worse

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never try and guess with clients

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:03 AM

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Ok that’s true lmao

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Why couldn’t we just detect when a player is added

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Would that mess up the loop

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:04 AM

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i made a little function whenver a player is added

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it loops through players

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and if there is more than one it doesnt do anything

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but if there is only one then proceeds to positioning them

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:06 AM

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So I want it where if there is a second person that joins the game, the second position gets tooken by that player and so on

So would the function player added not work

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:06 AM

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Oh alr

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i thought you only wanted it for the first person

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we would want that to be client based then

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:07 AM

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Ohh ok , yea I want everyone

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:07 AM

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bold vault we would want that to be client based then

No no, like let’s say I want 8 people to be in the menu area

So then I create 8 different positions

I want everyone to see everyone there

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:08 AM

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OH

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:08 AM

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Not only being able to see yourself in the position

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And the others can see themselves

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Actually thay may be better possibly, but is that even possible to locally position someone ?

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:09 AM

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yes since the player data and position is sent back to the server autmaticly through the network replicator

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so i think it would work on the client

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because how roblox is structured is each client is a different game on their computer

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but the server handles all these different players

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:10 AM

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Yea

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:10 AM

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and your right for thinking that it wouldnt replicate to the server

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but alot of things like player position and size and stuff replicates to the server without the use of remote events

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:11 AM

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So to do this it would have to be on a local script ?

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:12 AM

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you can do it on the server but it would be extremely complicated

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thats why i say we do it on the client

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:12 AM

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Alrigjt

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And your thinking the same concept as me right ?

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:12 AM

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i think lol

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:12 AM

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Lol

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wait can you maybe explain what you think I want to happen

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Idek if we’re on the same track right now

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:13 AM

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alright

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whenever a player joins you want to get the list of players using Players:GetPlayers(), then you want that players index inside of the table it returns to be equal to the same index inside of the position table

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:15 AM

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Yes

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:15 AM

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alr

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lemme get coding then

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:15 AM

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Alright

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And let’s just say thsi for example

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There is 8 positions in the table (which means 8 people can be in a lobby max)

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Also btw if I’m being confusing, we have it where they cannot move around

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And the camera is locked to a part

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:17 AM

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alr

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actually you have to replace the vectors with cframes

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same numbers

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alright its working

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-- Services
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

-- Tables
local CFramesTable = {
    CFrame.new(10, 1000, 10), -- 1st cframe
    CFrame.new(0, 0, 0), -- 2nd cframe and so on
}

-- Player Varibles
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

-- Funcs
local function PositionLocalPlayer()
    for Number, PlayerInPlayers in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
        if Player == PlayerInPlayers then
            HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFramesTable[Number]
        end
    end
end

PositionLocalPlayer()

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here ya go

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:21 AM

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that works?

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:21 AM

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actually lemme do a test with 2 players rq

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to make sure it works

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:21 AM

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ok

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well thank you for the help lol

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i understand alot more about some stuff as well

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@bold vault also did you purposely not put it in a playeradded function

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:24 AM

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playeradded doesnt work on client i dont think

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want me to try and do it on the server

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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you can attempt

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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alright

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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but you called players.localplayer and shit

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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i gotta brb for a while

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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which is only local script working

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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bold vault i gotta brb for a while

alright

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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yeah

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:30 AM

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Also btw did you actually test if it worked? Because I don’t even think it would since you never did a playeradded or anything like that

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 2:31 AM

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i did test, its weird because the scripts knows which player is first and which is second

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but the number isnt changing

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its almost working

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its weird

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because on player 2s client it knows that its the second player

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but it prints 1 on both

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ill recode it when i get back on the server or atleast try

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i tihnk its an issue with players

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 2:41 AM

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hm weird

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so does that glitch it out

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yea i just tested it

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puts them in same position

lyric geyser Mar 20, 2023, 3:00 AM

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-- Services
local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

-- Tables
local CFramesTable = {
    CFrame.new(-3.344, 41.544, -32.03), -- 1st cframe
    CFrame.new(0, 0, 0), -- 2nd cframe and so on
}

-- Player Varibles
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
Character.PrimaryPart.Rotation = Vector3.new(0,180,0)

-- Funcs
local function SetPosition()
    for Number = 1, #Players do
        if Player == Players[Number] then
            HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFramesTable[Number]
        end
    end
end

SetPosition()

changed the code to this and it still works

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changed it up a bit made it more workable, but still puts them in the same position

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even though the loop is supposed to start at 1 then loop through the amount of players

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its prob because it only loops once and sees only one person is there then stops looping

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@bold vault got it to work

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just put my thing above in a server sided script

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ty for the help

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i appreciate it alot

bold vault Mar 20, 2023, 3:20 AM

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lyric geyser ty for the help

alright no problem man good luck with your game

#Im guessing im doing this COMPLETELY wrong, but how would i do this correctly