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Teams

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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 behaviour
The following functionality of Teams exists by default and does not require the developer to program any custom behaviour.

  • 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

Properties

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bool

Archivable

Determines if an Instance can be cloned using /Instance/Clone or saved to file.
string

ClassName

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A read-only string representing the class this Instance belongs to
int

DataCost

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

The cost of saving the instance using data persistence.
string

Name

A non-unique identifier of the Instance
Instance

Parent

[NotReplicated]

Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance
bool

RobloxLocked

[Hidden]

A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects
int64

SourceAssetId

[Hidden] [NotReplicated]
bool

archivable

[Hidden] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]
string

className

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Functions

Objects

GetTeams ( )

Returns a table containing the game’s Team objects. Will only return Team objects that are parented to the Teams service.
void

RebalanceTeams ( )

[Deprecated]

Evens the number of people on each team. This function does not work correctly and should not be used.

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void

ClearAllChildren ( )

This function destroys all of an Instance’s children.
Instance

Clone ( )

Create a copy of an object and all its descendants, ignoring objects that are not Instance/Archivable|Archivable
void

Destroy ( )

Sets the Instance/Parent property to nil, locks the Instance/Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy on all children.
Instance

FindFirstAncestor ( string name )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/Name is equal to the given name.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.
Instance

FindFirstChildOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first child of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName|ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChildWhichIsA ( string className , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstDescendant ( string name )

Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance/Name.
Actor

GetActor ( )

Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, usually the first Actor ancestor
Variant

GetAttribute ( string attribute )

Returns the attribute which has been assigned to the given name
RBXScriptSignal

GetAttributeChangedSignal ( string attribute )

Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes
Dictionary

GetAttributes ( )

Returns a dictionary of string → variant pairs for each of the Instance|Instance’s attributes
Objects

GetChildren ( )

Returns an array containing all of the Instance’s children.
string

GetDebugId ( int scopeLength )

[NotBrowsable]

Returns a coded string of the Instances DebugId used internally by Roblox.
Array

GetDescendants ( )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance
string

GetFullName ( )

Returns a string describing the Instance’s ancestry.
RBXScriptSignal

GetPropertyChangedSignal ( string property )

Get an event that fires when a given property of an object changes.
bool

IsA ( string className )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns true if an Instance’s class matches or inherits from a given class
bool

IsAncestorOf ( Instance descendant )

Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant.
bool

IsDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor.
void

Remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Sets the object’s Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants.
void

SetAttribute ( string attribute , Variant value )

Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value
Instance

WaitForChild ( string childName , double timeOut )

[CustomLuaState] [CanYield]

Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.
Objects

children ( )

[Deprecated]

Returns an array of the object’s children.
Instance

clone ( )

[Deprecated]
void

destroy ( )

[Deprecated]
Instance

findFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

[Deprecated]
Objects

getChildren ( )

[Deprecated]
bool

isA ( string className )

[Deprecated] [CustomLuaState]
bool

isDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

[Deprecated]
void

remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Events

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RBXScriptSignal

AncestryChanged ( Instance child , Instance parent )

Fires when the Instance/Parent property of the object or one of its ancestors is changed.
RBXScriptSignal

AttributeChanged ( string attribute )

Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

Changed ( string property )

Fired immediately after a property of an object changes.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildAdded ( Instance child )

Fires after an object is parented to this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildRemoved ( Instance child )

Fires after a child is removed from this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantAdded ( Instance descendant )

Fires after a descendant is added to the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantRemoving ( Instance descendant )

Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed.
RBXScriptSignal

Destroying ( )

Fires immediately before the instance is destroyed via Instance/Destroy.
RBXScriptSignal

childAdded ( Instance child )

[Deprecated]

Code Samples

Team Only Door

The following code sample will create a door in the Workspace that can only be walked through by Players on the Bright red team.

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Team Kill Check

This code sample includes a quick function that can be added to weapons in a place to prevent them from team killing. It will return false when the two players are on different teams or if either of them is neutral.

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Simple Team Rebalance

This code sample includes a simple example of how to re-balance teams. When Team.AutoAssignable is set to true players will be added to Teams in a balanced fashion. However as Players leave the game this can lead to unbalanced teams as players are not reallocated. This code keeps track of the number of players in each team and, when players leave will check to see if the teams need re-balancing.

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Team TeleportService