Player Name Check

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Hi

I'd like to lock a function behind the name of the player using it, as a means to prank my friend.

Essentially the function should only trigger if the player's username is as written. I'm looking for the function to trigger when he's using the custom character himself.

I tried these (separately)

if UserToPlayer('namehere') then

if UserToPlayer() == 'namehere' then

if UserToPlayer = ('namehere') then

but none of these seem to work. 

I tried ThePlayer but apparently this one prints random strings of numbers as a means to identify players, but it changes every game.

is there some obvious thing I'm missing?

 

[Ultroman]

If you just want to call a function when a certain player joins, you can do this:

AddPlayerPostInit(function(inst)
	if inst.name == 'somename' then
		-- do something
	end
end)

You can check the same variable, inst.name, whenever you're doing something where you have an instance of a player.

[Well-met]

yup it is inst.name. Thanks