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script wont update textlabel in localplayer.playergui but it does in startergui why?

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Hello, I am trying to make game where you find endings and it counts up how many you have on an gui. I put in script on part touched it goes to playergui and updates text there from 0/13 found to 1/13 found. It worked in startergui it updated the text but when i put it to playergui it doesnt do nothing.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
		script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.EndingGui.Menu.Easyendings.oo13.Text = "1/13 found"
	end
end)
Anonymous

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LocalPlayer can NOT be accessed via server-side.

It is the LocalPlayer of the client but since a script is not a client script, it obviously doesn't work

You can use GetPlayerFromCharacter()

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(part)
    if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then     
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent) -- It gets a model and gets the player of the character
	if player then 
		player.PlayerGui.Ending.Text = '1/13 found' -- I think you mean text
	end
	
    end
end)

It is really unnecessary to go like script.Parent until it reaches game and do .Players.

You can easily use game.Players

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