Why isn't this code working? | Roblox Studio Community | Page 1

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:05 PM

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Hey, I'm trying to make the server send messages to the server via a remote event but either the event isn't firing properly or it isn't being caught. Why isn't this working and is there a way to modify this?
The left script is the child of the trigger that sends the event on touch (Child to Trigger)
script.parent is the trigger that's supposed to send the event on touch (In Workspace)
ChatThingy is the remote event (In ReplicatedStorage)
The right script is a local script that tries to catch the message to send the messages (In sterterGUI)
If there are any questions lmk

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:07 PM

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local scripts are meant for the client so something like on server event doesn't work

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on server event is meant for the server and server side scripts

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:09 PM

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So do I change that to a regular script?

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:09 PM

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fiery roost So do I change that to a regular script?

yes

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:10 PM

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but before you do that if the touched event for the part is in a server script then don't bother creating a remote event

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either make a bindable or copy and paste the on server event code into the touched event

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you can only fire server from the client

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:15 PM

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What's a bindable

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:17 PM

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bindable event basically it allows for server to server or client to client communication so you can have a sever side script that fires it and another that connects the event to some function but you can't do it between server and client because remote events are used for that

glad vineBOT Jul 25, 2025, 4:17 PM

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fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Is workspace client or server?

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Yo

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:18 PM

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both

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:18 PM

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fiery roost Is workspace client or server?

Watch Alvin blox’s whole tutorial series

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:19 PM

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but for storage usually use replicated storage (that's client and server)

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brawl dev also good

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that's how I learned but I also had previous experience in python

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:20 PM

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balmy comet Watch Alvin blox’s whole tutorial series

I'm not trying to dedicate all that, I'm just trying to do one thing then move on to the next.

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Also I am fairly fluent in Lua

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:20 PM

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fiery roost I'm not trying to dedicate all that, I'm just trying to do one thing then move o...

Okay skid

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:20 PM

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fiery roost Also I am fairly fluent in Lua

Ohh just normal

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:20 PM

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Who?

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:20 PM

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So you just don’t know the Roblox things

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:21 PM

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Yeah

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:21 PM

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You don’t know how server / client stuff works?

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:21 PM

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I understand it runs on LuaU, which is a branch of Lua, I just don't entirely know the difference

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:21 PM

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balmy comet You don’t know how server / client stuff works?

Yea

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:22 PM

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digital slate brawl dev also good

That's the tutorial I was following for this

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:24 PM

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fireserver() is on the client

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fireclient() is on the server

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onserverevent() is on the server

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onclientevent() is on the client

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:28 PM

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fiery roost Yea

Server changes replicate to all client

If a visual change occurs on the client it’s only for that client.

If the server changes:
replicated storage
workspace
lighting
… a lot more

It’s going to replicate to every client.
But if the client changes those things, it’s only going to appear for that client

Some things are only visible to one side, for example Serverstorage and ServerScriptService is only visible to the server for security reasons.

StarterPlayer is only visible and accessible on the client

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For server and client to communicate you use remote events and remote functions.

Remote events are one way triggers from server to client or other way around

Bindable events are like remote events but they’re supposed to be used on one side only for communication between scripts

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Remote functions are like remote events but they give feedback. For example a remote function firing the client to give the mouse position and the client gives the mouse position back to the server (unsafe)

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:34 PM

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Ohhhh

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So I should use a bindable event in this case?

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:35 PM

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fiery roost So I should use a bindable event in this case?

Wyd

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I didn’t read ur post

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:35 PM

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Trying to send chat messages when a trigger is touched

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You can just scroll up

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:36 PM

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fiery roost Hey, I'm trying to make the server send messages to the server via a remote even...

This doesn’t work?

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Print on both triggers and send me a picture of replicated storage

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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balmy comet This doesn’t work?

onserverevent is in a client script

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balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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frosty hamlet onserverevent is in a client script

Oh yeah just do this?

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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No it's in a regular script now

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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this needs to be a serverscript

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is it

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oh

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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Yeah

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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fiery roost No it's in a regular script now

Still doesn’t work?

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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so it should work then

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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It's saying FireServer only happens on client

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:37 PM

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Huh

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:38 PM

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frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:38 PM

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yeah you need to fireserver on a local script

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balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:38 PM

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fiery roost

The place where you fire server should be a client script

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Not server script

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:38 PM

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this needs to be a localscript

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:41 PM

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if the touched event is happening on the server then just grab the code from the on server event script and paste it into the touched event

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:42 PM

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Yeah you could do all of it on client

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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No, the chat messages part can only happen on a server script

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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so whats the issue right now

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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Does ur script work yet

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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No

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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ddi you turn this into a serverscript

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:43 PM

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Takes pictures of your serverscriptservice starterplayer and replicated storage

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All expanded out

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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Either I messed up the touch sensing part or the function isn't happening

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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frosty hamlet ddi you turn this into a serverscript

ServerScript is a regular script right?

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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fiery roost Either I messed up the touch sensing part or the function isn't happening

Print

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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fiery roost ServerScript is a regular script right?

yes

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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Yes

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:44 PM

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i shouldve made that clear

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:45 PM

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try replacing touched event like this

trigger.Touched:Connect(function()
game.TextChatService.TextChannels.RBXGeneral:DisplaySystemMessage("Test")
end)

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:45 PM

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balmy comet Takes pictures of your serverscriptservice starterplayer and replicated storage

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:46 PM

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fiery roost

Where is the local script

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Bruh

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It’s because

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U have a local script in workspace

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You can’t do that

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Can you?

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:46 PM

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you can if you change the context

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:46 PM

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This is why pictures r needed

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:46 PM

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better to put it in starterplayer anyways

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:48 PM

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It isn't properly registering that it's being touched

glad vineBOT Jul 25, 2025, 4:48 PM

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balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:48 PM

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balmy comet U have a local script in workspace

@fiery roost I

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Read

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:48 PM

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digital slate try replacing touched event like this trigger.Touched:Connect(function() ga...

Even with this code

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:48 PM

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Did u already do what he said

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Do I just put the part in StarterPlayer?

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Bruh

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No

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The script

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

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what kind of script is it for the touched event server (script) or client (localscript)

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

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😭

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

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digital slate what kind of script is it for the touched event server (script) or client (local...

Client

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His script for that is under the part

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So move the script into starterplayer

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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ok now copy and paste the code from that script

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Reference the part from workspace

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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and put inside a server script

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Ohhhhh

frosty hamlet Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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yall gonna confuse the guy

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Yeah what

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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but keep the server script in workspace or server script service (preferably)

balmy comet Jul 25, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Just move the client script gng

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That’s all

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Client scripts don’t run under workspace

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Unless you do that context thing or wtv

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But might as well have it in the right spot

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:53 PM

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actually the server script would need to be a child of that part because the reference to the part is script.Parent

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:53 PM

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digital slate actually the server script would need to be a child of that part because the ref...

I just changed it to Game.Workspace.ChatTrigger

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:53 PM

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that's good

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does it work?

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:54 PM

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Now I can only assume that it isn't registering that it's touched

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The first image is of the output

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digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 4:55 PM

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you need to send the entire script not just the touched

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or the door script

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 4:55 PM

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No the door script is completely unrelated to this

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I'm just showing that it isn't doing anything

digital slate Jul 25, 2025, 5:18 PM

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i think i figured out what you need to do

put a local script in starter character scripts

then do the following in the script

local TextChatService = game:GetService("TextChatService")

local trigger = workspace:WaitForChild("ChatTrigger")

trigger.Touched:Connect(function()
local robloxGeneral : TextChannel = TextChatService.TextChannels.RBXGeneral
robloxGeneral:DisplaySystemMessage("message")
end)

fiery roost Jul 25, 2025, 7:44 PM

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digital slate i think i figured out what you need to do put a local script in starter charact...

Do I delete the other stuff?

worldly kestrel Jul 26, 2025, 3:50 PM

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fiery roost Hey, I'm trying to make the server send messages to the server via a remote even...

BindableEvents

BindableEvent | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

An object which enables custom events through asynchronous one-way
communication between scripts on the same side of the client-server boundary.
Scripts firing a Class.BindableEvent do not yield.

worldly kestrel Jul 26, 2025, 3:52 PM

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fiery roost Is workspace client or server?

You can store server-sided scripts in the workspace, but you can store localscripts into it.

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I don’t recommend storing any scripts into the workspace

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