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How to enable a specific players gui?

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BloxyCola_Gamer 10
3 years ago

So i have this script that goes inside my bullet, its simple, the bullets name is the player that shot it name. and the way it gets the correct player to enable the gui is that it tostrings bullet name and just do game.Players.(name).PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Visible = true. but when it attempts that it says attempt to index nil with screengui. how can i fix this? also the script is a normal script, not a local


function ont (hit)
    if hit.Parent.Name ~= (script.Parent.Name) then
        local humanoid = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
        if humanoid ~= nil then
            local name = tostring(script.Parent.Name)
            script.Parent = workspace
            print("got hit")
            wait(0.2)

            --if humanoid.Health >= 1 then
            print("humanoid died")
                game.Players.name.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled=true
                wait(1)
            game.Players.name.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled=false
            --end

        end
    end
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(ont)

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Answered by
climethestair 1663 Moderation Voter
3 years ago

You cannot access the player's PlayerGui from the server. You will need to use a RemoteEvent to communicate with the client.

Very simple example of how to set it up...

-- Server
local PlayerGuiRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerGuiRemote

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(object)
    local player = ...
    PlayerGuiRemote:FireClient(player, "ScreenGui", true) -- tell the player the UI, and whether or not to enable it
end)

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-- Client
local PlayerGuiRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlayerGuiRemote")
local LocalPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer

PlayerGuiRemote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(ui, toggle)
    LocalPlayer.PlayerGui[ui].Enabled = toggle
end)
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forgot about that detail, yeah LeHelary 142 — 3y
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Answered by
LeHelary 142
3 years ago
Edited 3 years ago

You should use Players[name] instead of Players.name, because the second one is seen as Players["name"] which is not what you're looking for. So for example:

game.Players[name].PlayerGui.ScreenGui.Enabled = true
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You can fire a server event in replicated storage that fires a local script in StarterPlayerGui, which can enable the gui. miner561473 17 — 3y

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