Teams
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not creatable
service
The Teams service holds a game's Team objects. Team objects must be parented to the Teams service.
Teams offer a range of features that are useful to developers. These can broadly be divided into features that work out-of-the-box and features developers can program into their game.
Built-in team behavior The following functionality of Teams exists by default and does not require the developer to program any custom behavior.
- When part of a Team, the name above a player's character Model will be colored to the Team.TeamColor
- Changing Player.TeamColor will cause Player.Team switch to the Team with the corresponding Team.TeamColor
- When using the default player list users will be grouped and displayed by team
- Setting Player.Neutral to true will cause the Player to be dis-associated with the team, but will not change Player.Team or Player.TeamColor
- When a Player joins a game, they will be allocated to the team with Team.AutoAssignable set to true that has the fewest players. If no auto assignable team is available, Player.Neutral will be set to true
- When SpawnLocation.Neutral is set to false, only players whose Player.TeamColor matches SpawnLocation.TeamColor can spawn on that SpawnLocation
- When SpawnLocation.AllowTeamChangeOnTouch is set to true, a player's Player.TeamColor will change to SpawnLocation.TeamColor when their character touches the SpawnLocation
Optional extended team behavior Many developers chose to add the following features to teams in their own code.
- Implement checks for team in weapon code to prevent team killing
- Implement doors or other features that only certain teams can use
- Periodically reassign teams to maintain team balance
Code Samples
Simple Team Rebalance
local Teams = game:GetService("Teams")
-- create two teams
local redTeam = Instance.new("Team")
redTeam.TeamColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
redTeam.AutoAssignable = true
redTeam.Name = "Red Team"
redTeam.Parent = Teams
local blueTeam = Instance.new("Team")
blueTeam.TeamColor = BrickColor.new("Bright blue")
blueTeam.AutoAssignable = true
blueTeam.Name = "Blue Team"
blueTeam.Parent = Teams
-- start counting the number of players on each team
local numberRed, numberBlue = 0, 0
local function playerAdded(team)
-- increase the team's count by 1
if team == redTeam then
numberRed = numberRed + 1
elseif team == blueTeam then
numberBlue = numberBlue + 1
end
end
local function playerRemoved(team)
-- decrease the team's count by 1
if team == redTeam then
numberRed = numberRed - 1
elseif team == blueTeam then
numberBlue = numberBlue - 1
end
-- check if the teams are unbalanced
local bigTeam, smallTeam = nil, nil
if (numberRed - numberBlue) > 2 then
bigTeam = redTeam
smallTeam = blueTeam
elseif (numberBlue - numberRed) > 2 then
bigTeam = blueTeam
smallTeam = redTeam
end
if bigTeam then
-- pick a random player
local playerList = bigTeam:GetPlayers()
local player = playerList[math.random(1, #playerList)]
-- check the player exists
if player then
-- change the player's team
player.TeamColor = smallTeam.TeamColor
-- respawn the player
player:LoadCharacter()
end
end
end
-- listen for players being added / removed
blueTeam.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(_player)
playerAdded(blueTeam)
end)
blueTeam.PlayerRemoved:Connect(function(_player)
playerRemoved(blueTeam)
end)
redTeam.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(_player)
playerAdded(redTeam)
end)
redTeam.PlayerRemoved:Connect(function(_player)
playerRemoved(redTeam)
end)Team Only Door
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local door = Instance.new("Part")
door.Anchored = true
door.Size = Vector3.new(7, 10, 1)
door.Position = Vector3.new(0, 5, 0)
door.Parent = workspace
local debounce = false
door.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if not debounce then
debounce = true
if hit then
local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
if player and player.TeamColor == BrickColor.new("Bright red") then
door.Transparency = 0.5
door.CanCollide = false
task.wait(3)
door.Transparency = 0
door.CanCollide = true
end
end
task.wait(0.5)
debounce = false
end
end)Team Kill Check
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
function checkTeamKill(playerAttack, playerVictim)
if playerAttack.Team ~= playerVictim.Team or playerAttack.Neutral or playerVictim.Neutral then
return false
end
return true
end
local players = Players:GetPlayers()
checkTeamKill(players[1], players[2])Summary
Properties
Methods
Properties
Methods
GetTeams
The GetTeam function returns a table containing the game's Team objects.
Note this will only return Team objects that are directly parented to the Teams service. For this reason it is recommended developers only parent Team objects to the Teams service and not to other Instances (or to each other).
Returns
Code Samples
Teams GetTeams
local Teams = game:GetService("Teams")
local teams = Teams:GetTeams()
for _, team in pairs(teams) do
local players = team:GetPlayers()
print("Team", team.Name, "has", #players, "players")
end