Teleport Players

Lesson 6 of 18 in Coddy's Roblox Game: Disaster Survival course.

An island nobody stands on is no game. When a round starts, every player goes to the map's Spawn, and when it ends, back to the lobby.

Players:GetPlayers() lists everyone in the game, and a player's body is player.Character, a Model. Model:PivotTo(cframe) moves a whole model at once, every part keeping its place. A CFrame is a position plus a rotation, and adding a Vector3 moves it:

local function teleport(player, target)
	local character = player.Character
	if character then
		character:PivotTo(target.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, 4, 0))
	end
end

The 4 studs up drop the player a little above the target instead of inside it. player.Character is nil for a moment after joining or dying, hence the if.

Challenge

Medium

Move the players:

Near the top, keep the lobby's spawn: local lobbySpawn = workspace.LobbySpawn.
Write teleport(player, target) as in the lesson.
Right after the map is loaded, teleport every player to map.Spawn.
When the round's countdown ends, teleport every player to lobbySpawn, before the map is destroyed.

Press Play and ride along, then Check.

Try it yourself

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
local Settings = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Settings)

print("Rounds last " .. Settings.RoundLength .. " seconds")

-- Every player gets Wins on the leaderboard
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player

	local wins = Instance.new("IntValue")
	wins.Name = "Wins"
	wins.Parent = leaderstats
end)

-- The status board in the lobby
local gui = Instance.new("SurfaceGui")
gui.Parent = workspace.StatusBoard

local status = Instance.new("TextLabel")
status.Name = "Status"
status.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, 1)
status.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(25, 25, 35)
status.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
status.TextScaled = true
status.Text = "Welcome to Disaster Survival!"
status.Parent = gui

local function setStatus(text)
	status.Text = text
end

-- The round loop
while true do
	for seconds = Settings.Intermission, 1, -1 do
		setStatus("Intermission: " .. seconds)
		task.wait(1)
	end

	local map = ServerStorage.Maps.Island:Clone()
	map.Name = "Map"
	map.Parent = workspace

	for seconds = Settings.RoundLength, 1, -1 do
		setStatus("Time left: " .. seconds)
		task.wait(1)
	end

	map:Destroy()
end