Turn a instance into a string or?
Hey, this is my first post and I'm just simply trying to learn why this line of code requires a string and if I can get it to take a variable/instance.
All I'm doing is trying to make a sign change to the player's name when touched.
I do understand that this code does have some stuff that could be shed off but I still can't find out why it wouldn't work.
The line of code I'm having trouble with is
"ourSign.Text = character"
My full code:
local sec15 = script.Parent
local platformg = false
local ourSign = game.Workspace.oursign.SurfaceGui.TextLabel
local function onTouch(partTouched)
local character = partTouched.parent
local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
if character and platformg == false then
ourSign.Text = character
platformg = true
end
end
--Event sec15.Touched:Connect(onTouch)
1 answer
Alright so here's what you've got wrong.
if character and platformg == false then --print ("A Humanoid is on me") ourSign.Text = character.Name --you want to set the text to the name of the character, not the character itself! platformg = true end --print ("Character") --print (character)
Basically if you try to set a string value to an object value it's not going to work, you want to use the character name (which is a string value) which you can retrieve using Character.Name
Hope this helps ;)
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