Why wont a Players name be put into TextLabel?
I'm currently working on a scrip that fires a client when a player dies and sends the name of the player who died and sends the player's killer but for some reason, I'm unable to put the player's name into a text label, and I know it's not an issue from the server I've tested the server 3 times with prints so I'm suspecting from the print testing and the error I get that it's from the client
Players.Player2.PlayerGui.MenuHandler.KillStats:60: invalid argument #3 (string expected, got nil)
ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("Events").KillStatsUI1.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(Player, Playername)
local KillStatsClone1 = KillPopUp:Clone() ---everything except the 5 line works.
KillStatsClone1.Parent = script.Parent.MainGui
KillStatsClone1.Total.Text = "50"
KillStatsClone1.PlayerName.Text = Playername
end)
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Problem
This is a misunderstanding of RemoteEvents with the :FireClient() and .OnClientEvent.
The first argument of :FireClient() is the player you want to fire to, and arguments after the first are other arguments you want to pass to the LocalScript. It looks like this.
Script
RemoteEvent:FireClient(MarkedTomato, 2, 4)
LocalScript
RemoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(num1, num2) print(num1) --prints 2 print(num2) --prints 4 end)
If you still don't understand, you can look at the description of the parameters of :FireClient() here.
Your actual error means that it expected a string but got nil, nil meaning nothingness.
Solution
Make a variable for the LocalPlayer.
Fixed LocalScript
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer
ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("Events").KillStatsUI1.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
local KillStatsClone1 = KillPopUp:Clone()
KillStatsClone1.Parent = script.Parent.MainGui
KillStatsClone1.Total.Text = "50"
KillStatsClone1.PlayerName.Text = player.Name
end)