Need help disabling player movement when proximity prompt clicked.

[naive steeple]

https://gyazo.com/568879896304bfb062d0fe8b13cc4bd8

Basicaly when u open the star map it opens a camera and in the bottom left there’s an X to exit.
So i need it when your in the camera view, player can’t move around. it can move once pressed exit button. In the video this works once then my script breaks

[full mauve]

very common beginner problem. you're desyncing the worldstate on the client from the server. in simple terms, you call disableWalking on the server, and then call restoreWalking on the client. Your code doesn't show anything that will tell the server about this, so the server thinks the client still has its walking disabled. the solution is very obvious, simple, and mundane that even a beginner can fix it: simply communicate to the server what the client has done using remote events. another solution is to do it entirely on one side (pick either server or client and do everything there), noting that gui button presses dont automagically get sent to the server so you'd still need a remote event there.

lol that's plain wrong. take this opportunity to learn about truthiness. https://www.lua.org/pil/2.2.html. false and nil evaluate to false, everything else evaluates to true.

Conditionals (such as the ones in control structures) consider false and nil as false and anything else as true.

Lua considers both zero and the empty string as true in conditional tests

[final cloud]

oh

alr

thx

[full mauve]

anyway the most common way this comes up is when you make a frame.visible=true on the server, then set frame.visible=false on the client (close button), and then when the server tries to make it visible again (not knowing the client made it invisible), the server thinks it's still visible from before and nothing happens, making the frame only appear once. exact same identical problem, solved in exactly the same way

[naive steeple]

thanks @full mauve

someone giving real constructive help

yknow who u are

[full mauve]

they tried. points for effort, and they learned something in the attempt

[naive steeple]

i reposted this thing lol

was having an hr long argument

in the post

[full mauve]

oh haha understandable #1359891943475253299 message results may vary

[full mauve]

it's a very simple problem but it can take running into a desync problem like this to understand the client/server boundary https://create.roblox.com/docs/projects/client-server. when you know what the problem is, it is trivial to fix. the 0 bandwidth technique is doing it all on the client since why does the server need to care if the player is locked into a menu?

i'm surprised none of them checked and picked up on it

[full mauve]

p.s thanks for including line numbers and tabs so i could tell they were server script and localscript, explorer screenshot + recording, very good request, it didn't deserve what that other thread got and it's a very simple problem with all the needed information available. results may vary

[naive steeple]

@full mauve

local ProximityPrompt = workspace:WaitForChild("Starmaptable"):WaitForChild("ProximityPrompt")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local exitButton = player:WaitForChild("TableGui"):WaitForChild("TableGui"):WaitForChild("ExitButton")

local function disableWalking()
    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
    humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Physics)
end

local function enableWalking()
    local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
    local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
    humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.GettingUp)
    wait()
    humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Running)
end

ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function(triggeringPlayer)
    if triggeringPlayer == player then
        disableWalking()
    end
end)

exitButton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    enableWalking()
end)

tried this

didnt work

[naive steeple]

lets go!

i fixed it