weird errors

[honest pine]

RemoteFunction does not use OnClientEvent or FireClient

Next time, look at the docs if it starts telling you it's not a valid member

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/RemoteFunction

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what should i use

fixed quality

[honest pine]

Well do you need a response? Or just to tell something that something happened

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huh

[clear finch]

** You are now Level 5! **

[honest pine]

Okay. Why did you even use RemoteFunction in the first place.

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because?

that’s simple

and easy

[honest pine]

What do you mean "because"? Surely you had a reason for using it. What was the intention behind it? Why was it added?

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ohhhh

that’s what you mean

that’s for equipping different characters

[honest pine]

Okay... and how does that work? Are you using it so the client can request to change character?

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it’s not completely done but i have a script rn so it sets your character to the test character set up and when you join you will see the attack buttons

but for some reason those errors appeared and now i don’t see the buttons

[honest pine]

It doesn't matter. I'm asking so I know what you need to use, RemoteEvent or RemoteFunction, since you asked

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remote function

[honest pine]

I think we're not quite on the same page.

You asked me "so what should I use" so I assumed you were asking me if you should use RemoteFunction or RemoteEvent.

Are you asking what event & function you should use for RemoteFunctions?

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i meant instead of firing what should i do for the code

[honest pine]

Well if you read the doc I linked you'd see what functions you'd need to use.

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i did

multiple times

[honest pine]

If that was too technical, read this instead:
https://create.roblox.com/docs/scripting/events/remote#remote-callbacks

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this fixed it but added another error

[honest pine]

that's a variable, not a function, so its more like
.OnServerInvoke = function, which the example code in the docs I linked did do as well

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i did the server one

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isn’t this exactly what i did

ok that one is fixed

[honest pine]

How many more errors are there?

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these 2

[honest pine]

The first one you forgot an end for your event connection

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fixed

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what about the last one

and my entire punch system just broke randomly

this is so annoying

[honest pine]

This is programming. Sometimes you introduce more issues than you solve.

[honest pine]

Just send a screenshot of the error and where it is. having to watch a video to find it is obnoxious

[honest pine]

We just talked about that. That's why I was linking things.

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yea but i’m using connect function so what would i replace it with

[honest pine]

Read. What. I. Linked. It. Is. All. There.

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would i do the same thing

[honest pine]

from the thing I linked.

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so is connect(function(CharacterData) client or server

[honest pine]

There is no Connect.

When you Invoke, it'll return whatever the server returned in OnServerInvoke

[honest pine]

Because you're trying to use a RemoteFunction. RemoteFunctions do not have OnClient event. I thought that was made ridiculously clear.

Maybe you do want to use a RemoteEvent, but accidentally used RemoteFunction.

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was made clear where?

Events.EquipCharacterClient.OnServerInvoke = function(Player, CharacterData)

would this work

[honest pine]

Yes, if that bit of code is on the server.

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i will have to try

[honest pine]

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was said 1 time that it doesn’t use client

[honest pine]

But twice you were pointed to what it showed you to use. If you had read those you would have seen the proper way to use a RemoteFunction.

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i did use it

the correct way

then i asked a simple question because i was a little confused

but you couldn’t take the 10 seconds to think about what i had said

[honest pine]

You were trying to use RemoteEvent stuff on a RemoteFunction

So I said that and linked you two docs that contained the correct functions to help you see the things you should be using.

I was hoping that was enough, as you'd read them, see some example code, and be like "oh, that's how RemoteFunctions work, cool" and all would be solved.

But as you responded saying it was still an error, I was confused and thought you did not read anything I was saying

I realized a little bit through that maybe we were having some communication issues

but it just continued to seem that you weren't paying attention to what I was saying.

If the docs were confusing, you could have said "hey these are still confusing. Can you explain?"

But saying "which one do I use", it made it seem like you didn't read it, because the answers were in both of those linked docs.

So I became frustrated because I felt like I was repeating myself and you appeared to ignore it without acknowledging what I gave you

Does that make sense?

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i explained to you many times i meant which one do i use the client code or the server code

to which you replied “look what i linked”

[honest pine]

Yes, because both sides are different

RemoteEvents and RemoteFunctions do not use the same things at all

So I wanted you to look into what I linked because it gave examples on what was needed to make RemoteFunctions work

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which i was just simply asking for 1 answer because i was a little confused which you could’ve just simply given and said “yes use the server one” or “yes use the client one” but because we’ve been going back and forth i still have no idea what i should do so my game is still currently broken

[honest pine]

"which one do I use" didn't make sense in context, so I was confused. That's where that came from.

We can try and fix it again with a clean slate, if you'd like. One step at a time, with any errors that come up.

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i just need to fix OnClientEvent is not a valid member of RemoteFunction "ReplicatedStorage.Events.EquipCharacterClient"

any hopefully it works

[honest pine]

Cool, so OnClientEvent is for the server, so it knows when the Client has sent an event.

The RemoteFunction equivalent, but used differently, is OnServerInvoke, which as you did before, set to a function that is called when the client does InvokeServer.

Does that make sense?

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OnServerInvoke is a callback member of RemoteFunction; you can only set the callback value, get is not available

[honest pine]

You did it right before

OnServerInvoke is a variable, so you have to set that to whatever function you want ran

(What you showed me):
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OnServerInvoke is a callback member of RemoteFunction; you can only set the callback value, get is not available

[clear finch]

** You are now Level 6! **

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fix one error create another

[honest pine]

Okay but that isn't right

I see what you're saying, but it's saying you can set it, just not get it

So you can set it to the function you want called

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i’m a little confused

[honest pine]

That's okay!

So OnServerInvoke isn't an event or anything. It's not a function you call or event you connect to.

It looks like one, yeah, but it's just a variable that the RemoteFunction will read to know what to call

So all you're doing is saying "here's the function I want you to run when you are invoked by the client"

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ohhh

what should i try then?

[honest pine]

So do OnServerInvoke = function and the rest of your function

so for example

remoteFunction.OnServerInvoke = function()
     print("The function was used!")
end

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does the function have to have player in it

well that’s fixed now

and there’s a new error

isn’t this wonderful

fixed both of those

and there’s another one

for the love of

OnServerInvoke can only be implemented on the server

[honest pine]

Oh yes, it does, good call!

[honest pine]

Yeah, this can only be on the server

How does the equip work? Does the client ask the server to equip a character?

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the client is the player right?

[honest pine]

The client is the player's computer essentially, yeah

The server is Roblox

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then yes i’m pretty sure

when the player joins they are automatically put onto the first class/ the base class

in the characters menu they can choose a new character

i can show you everything i have so far

[honest pine]

So the server would have OnServerInvoke in a script in ServerScriptService.

When that's invoked by the client using InvokeServer, they'd supply the name of the character they want to change into (or whatever you wanna do)

In the server's invoke function, you'd then swap out the player's character for the new one

So two scripts:

• Server: OnServerInvoke, which contains the function that changes player character
• Client: InvokeServer with the character to change into

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i’m still very confused because my punch was working and i don’t think this line of code has anything to do with it and i don’t know which one to use

[honest pine]

Server script

local remoteFunction = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteFunction
remoteFunction.OnServerInvoke = function(player, param1, param2)
  print("Player invoked me!", param1, param2)
  return 10
end

Client script

local remoteFunction = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteFunction
local resultFromServer = remoteFunction:InvokeServer("first parameter", "second parameter")
print("The server responded!", resultFromServer)

[honest pine]

Well we gotta make sure we fix what we know we can, and deal with new errors that pop up. One step at a time!

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how do i add this

[honest pine]

Well you wouldn't add exactly that, but you'd use that as a guide to how you need to use your own RemoteFunction

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i don’t get it

[honest pine]

Okay, how about you show me what you have so far

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bruh

it just deleted everything

everything i have

might just rtestart

[honest pine]

I mean the issue is you're still not doing the RemoteFunction right

I have really really tried to explain it to you, giving you examples and docs, but it's just not clicking for you

There's nothing else I can really do here. Maybe someone else can come in and give it a try, maybe they'll explain it in a way that makes more sense for you

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idk what to put

[honest pine]

I think that means that you're not familiar enough with programming and lua yet and need to practice more on more basic things. Making a combat system really isn't the best first thing to do

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your explaining it in ways i dont understand

again i dont know wether its server side or client side

[honest pine]

But I tried to explain that here: #1359245599207325817 message

You Invoke on the client, and OnServerInvoke on the server

InvokeServer goes in a LocalScript, OnServerInvoke goes in a regular Script

Character gets changed on the server, client asks the server to change them

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ok now i get it

i need to use invokeserver

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@honest pine InvokeServer is not a valid member of RemoteFunction "ReplicatedStorage.Events.EquipCharacterClient"

i just dont get it

why is roblox coding so bad

[honest pine]

It's not bad, you just need more practice.

[honest pine]

Is this you trying to invoke on the client?

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yea

the script im on rn is a local script

[honest pine]

Okay, so to InvokeServer, you'd just do EquipCharacterClient:InvokeServer(player, characterName)

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do i need to do the events because that’s the folder it’s in

the character client

[honest pine]

It's not literal. I'm just trying to show you how you'd do it

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FINALLY

I FIXED THAT ONE

HOLY

Workspace.GraysenP426.CharacterAttacks.SpecialAttacksInputHandle:48: Expected <eof>, got 'end'

what is eof

the line of code its directing me to is just an "end"

[honest pine]

Basically means you mistyped something.

Show me that script

[honest pine]

This is the wrong way to do InvokeServer, plus the code is outside the event rather than inside it

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what should i be doing?

[honest pine]

Is this the server part?

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this is the local script

[honest pine]

Didn't we just do the InvokeServer part and you said you fixed it?

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no it’s not that

the error is gone for that one

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it’s this

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it’s saying expected <eof>

[honest pine]

okay just get rid of that end, it doesn't belong there

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oh ok understood

ohhh i know why i had that

because i had a function there

all errors are gone!

but now my punch animation is broken

sigh

all this hard work

i think i’m just done with this game

@honest pine is it possible to revert back to an old save

[honest pine]

Possibly but Google may be better at answering that