Trouble Morphing a Specific Player | Roblox Studio Community | Page 1

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:30 PM

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Hey, working on a small survivor v killer game to learn scripting and need to write a script to morph a single selected player (whose username stored in an ObjectValue called chosen) into a different rig I've created. I've already written the code to select a player, but I can't figure out how to actually morph the player into the rig/model. (Which is just a modified but largely default R15 model) I've tried multiple tutorials on how to make physical and GUI-based morphs, but I can't figure out how to get it to work for my use-case. Does anyone have any suggestions?

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:32 PM

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I've been using this script

📎 message.txt

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you do need a remoteevent named CharacterEvent in ReplicatedStorage though

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you just fire this in your gui replace character name with your character and put this into a button click script

📎 message.txt

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:35 PM

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livid cedar Hey, working on a small survivor v killer game to learn scripting and need to wr...

pong

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:49 PM

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kind drift pong

oh shoot, sorry

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was animating lol

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:49 PM

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kind drift I've been using this script

i'll give this a shot rq, thanks chat

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:49 PM

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put in servicescriptservice btw

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:49 PM

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ofc, thanks for clarifying tho

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testing it now

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 PM

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kind drift I've been using this script

this script is supposed to be parented under the CharacterEvent remoteevent right?

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or am i stupid

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i might be stupid

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 PM

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no

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 PM

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oh mb

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 PM

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in serverscriptservice

livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 PM

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yeah in hindsight i probably should have figured that out lmao

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does the script have to be named anything specific so that the CharacterEvent can identify it?

ornate brookBOT Apr 24, 2025, 11:58 PM

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livid cedar Apr 24, 2025, 11:58 PM

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sorry for all the questions, new to Lua and still don't fully know what i'm doing

kind drift Apr 24, 2025, 11:59 PM

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livid cedar does the script have to be named anything specific so that the CharacterEvent ca...

no

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the script has to identify CharacterEvent not the otherway around

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 12:00 AM

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kind drift the script has to identify CharacterEvent not the otherway around

ah, i see

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mb mb

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 12:49 AM

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@kind drift yeah it uh

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aint working

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you there?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:02 AM

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yes

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can i see your directory where you put your scripts and the gui script

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:03 AM

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ofc

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holup brb

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livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:06 AM

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kind drift I've been using this script

the enabled script is the one that i put this into

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this is the gui script, just a simple text button

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ignore my messy organization, still working some things out

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:07 AM

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it needs to be a local script

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:07 AM

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ah

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yeah that

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that makes sense in hindsight

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mb

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i'll change it and test, brb

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still not working

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wait

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:09 AM

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livid cedar

did you mean this needs to be a localscript?

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because if so i am extraordinarily stupid

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:10 AM

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livid cedar

made this a localscript and the main code a regular script, still non-functional

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@kind drift u there? sorry to pester

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:12 AM

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huh

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:13 AM

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well, i first tried making the main script a localscript, which didnt work

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livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:13 AM

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then realized you probably meant the gui script had to be local, so i swapped the main script back to standard and the gui script to local

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which also didnt work

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so there has to be something i'm doing wrong, i just cant figure out what

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should they both be localscripts?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:14 AM

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no

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only the gui

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:14 AM

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k, that's what ive done then

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but it's still non-functional for some reason

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:15 AM

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wait are there any scripts that need to be copied from 1 character to another

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:15 AM

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what do you mean?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:15 AM

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i mean

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:15 AM

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i mean, not what i know of, it's only changing the players avatar, nothing else

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:15 AM

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oh ok

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does it have a humanoidrootpart

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:16 AM

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i'll check but i believe so

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:16 AM

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livid cedar the enabled script is the one that i put this into

wait

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:16 AM

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i made the rig by just spawning an r15 model and scaling different sections, so

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:16 AM

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why is is it waiting for screen gui

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:17 AM

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i'll be honest, i'm still pretty new to Lua and forgot how to program a click button GUI

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i looked up a tutorial on how to make one

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the morph is supposed to be triggered when a timer reaches zero, but i figured id throw together a simple gui just to make sure the code actually worked in a vacuum first

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:18 AM

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remove the waitforchild (screengui) part

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:18 AM

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k

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:18 AM

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and the colon

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:19 AM

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done

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looks like this

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ignore my simply amazing and definitely finalized title

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:20 AM

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that should work

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:20 AM

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k, will try it

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YES

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thanks so much man

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works almost perfectly

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:20 AM

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the textbutton thing shouldn't be needed as it just legnthens the script as it's used only one time

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just do script.Parent

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:21 AM

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makes sense

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but yeah, this works near-perfectly now

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thanks man

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:21 AM

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livid cedar but yeah, this works near-perfectly now

i say near because i had custom walk/run animations for the entity that didnt carry over in the morph

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but that's fine, i can fix that later

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thanks again! :D

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:22 AM

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hold on

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livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:23 AM

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oh?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:23 AM

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is the animations in startercharacterscripts

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:24 AM

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kind drift is the animations in startercharacterscripts

in starterplayer?

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because if so, no

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:24 AM

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yes

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where is it then

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:24 AM

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it's in the animate localscript for the entity

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:25 AM

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oh hold on

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delete this part of the main script

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it removes the scripts inside the entity to replace with the startercharacter ones

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:26 AM

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kind drift delete this part of the main script

from newChar.Name = player.Name to the second End?

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:26 AM

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kind drift it removes the scripts inside the entity to replace with the startercharacter on...

ahhhh makes sense

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:26 AM

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livid cedar from newChar.Name = player.Name to the second End?

no

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right below it

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for _ to end

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:26 AM

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so including the
for . v in pairs(game.starter...
line?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:27 AM

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no

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:27 AM

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k

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:27 AM

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nevermind i got confused

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:27 AM

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oh mb

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so do i delete the For loop?

ornate brookBOT Apr 25, 2025, 1:28 AM

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livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:28 AM

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oh hey, look at that

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chat rookie from talking in one help post

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:28 AM

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livid cedar so do i delete the For loop?

yes

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:29 AM

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kind drift yes

k

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:29 AM

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not the pairs(game.starterplyer part though

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or the newChar.Name = player.Name

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:29 AM

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gotcha

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:29 AM

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sorry if my screenshot was confusing

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:29 AM

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ur alg, dw

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wait

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so just the if loop?

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just this?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:30 AM

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no

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remove the if v is ascript and destroy part too

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:31 AM

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so all of this?

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wait no

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nvm

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:31 AM

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yes

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:31 AM

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oh that works then

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testing now

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worked perfectly :D

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thanks man

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:32 AM

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np

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just remember the roblox studio code is a bit different from actual lua

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:33 AM

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oh yeah, ofc

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very much so

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thanks again :D

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:38 AM

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np

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:38 AM

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hey so @kind drift

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sorry to keep pestering you but

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is there a way of activating the event with another script?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:38 AM

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yes

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you just fire it with the same code

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:39 AM

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oh, that's it?

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that works then

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:39 AM

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kind drift you just fire this in your gui replace character name with your character and pu...

yes this one

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:39 AM

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gotcha, will test it rq

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yeah, it didnt work

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the rest of the script it was in worked, but the morph didnt occur

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i can send the script it's in if need-be?

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@kind drift

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kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:44 AM

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livid cedar i can send the script it's in if need-be?

sure

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:44 AM

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kind drift sure

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line 15* is the trigger

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all the script does is pick a random player as the killer, displaying it on their screen with a Gui and giving them a sword

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the sword was just to make sure the script worked, wont be final

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 1:45 AM

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oh is ee the problem

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it doesn't have the player

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 1:47 AM

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ah

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yeah with that, the script does save the players username in an ObjectValue in ReplicatedStorage on line 9

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could i use that somehow?

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 2:08 AM

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afk

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 2:59 AM

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livid cedar could i use that somehow?

idk maybe try that

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player and then the character

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

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kind drift player and then the character

i'll give it a shot

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you mean something like this?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

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yes

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

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k, will give it a shot

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didn't work, have an idea tho

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:02 AM

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what is it

ornate brookBOT Apr 25, 2025, 3:02 AM

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livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:02 AM

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could something like this work?

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cause chosen is just the players username

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so could this call on the specific player? maybe?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:03 AM

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maybe that will work

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:04 AM

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afraid not :/

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:06 AM

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ah

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so instead of copying the localscripts code isntead we copy the main script

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ima do some edits

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:07 AM

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thanks

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i am definitely not qualified to try and rework your code lmao

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:08 AM

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replace the fire server thing with this

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:08 AM

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kind drift replace the fire server thing with this

the one that was previously used in the gui?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:08 AM

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yes and is now in the script your using

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:08 AM

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k

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thx again for all of this

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:09 AM

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hold on

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i forgot to change chosenCharacter to "Brute"

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thats all

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:09 AM

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alg

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but also

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:10 AM

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kind drift replace the fire server thing with this

this

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:10 AM

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kind drift I've been using this script

should replace this, right?

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:10 AM

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no

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:10 AM

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k, the gui script it is

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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livid cedar the one that was previously used in the gui?

wanted to check in case this was unclear

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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livid cedar could something like this work?

i meant this

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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kind drift i meant this

gotcha'

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will test

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:11 AM

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📎 message.txt

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fixed code

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:12 AM

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thx, testing now

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LETS GO

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IT WORKS HELL YEAH

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dude i genuinely cannot help you enough for this

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:12 AM

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i'm still learning too

livid cedar Apr 25, 2025, 3:13 AM

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i literally started learning like 2-3 days ago you are 100% more qualified than me here

kind drift Apr 25, 2025, 3:13 AM

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i didn't know how to change a persons character not using a localscript and using a serverscript instead until now

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