Not losing your skin after death / how can I define player?

[Galton]

hello, my first question is how can I define local player for a server side script? it's something I cannot understand, is there a way to do it?

my second question is I'm trying to make a script that will save your skin on death and give your skin back on spawn. but I cannot make it work.

this is my code;

function getSkin () 
local playerSkin = getElementModel(getPlayerFromName(source)) 
end 
  
function setSkin () 
setElementModel(getPlayerFromName(source),playerSkin) 
end 
  
addEventHandler ("onPlayerWasted",root,getSkin) 
addEventHandler ("onPlayerSpawn",root,setSkin) 

if I use "myActualNick" instead of source, it works perfectly fine.

I don't know what's the problem, but I'd love to get some help. thanks in advance.

[toxicsmoke11]

1) for server-side you usually got events which define source, and custom-events(if you add ones) which source is client

and if you really want, you can get a random player with getRandomPlayer()

2)

source in that case is an element, not a name. for a name use getPlayerName(source)

  
function onDeath() 
local skin = getPedSkin(source) -- get dead player's skin model id 
setElementData(source,"skin-id",skin) -- save id to element(player) 's data 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted",root,onDeath) 
  
-- on spawn 
function onSpawn() 
local skin = getElementData(source,"skin-id") or 0 -- or 0 is used in case a player didn't die yet, so he doesn't have a saved skin yet because he didn't die 
  
setPedSkin(source,skin) -- set his skin to original one 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerSpawn",root,onSpawn) 

[Enargy,]

EDIT:

you can also insert skin in a table;

skin = {} 
addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted", root, 
function() 
   local playerSkin = tonumber(getElementModel(source)) 
   table.insert(skin, {playerSkin}) 
   outputChatBox("inserted skin!", source) 
end) 
  
addEventHandler("onPlayerSpawn", root, 
function() 
   for index, playerModel in pairs(skin) do 
    setElementModel(source, unpack(playerModel)) 
    table.remove( skin, index ) 
   outputChatBox("loaded skin!", source) 
   end 
end) 

[Galton]

that was really helpful, thank you both.