Why doesn't the label text doesn't change to raycasted object name?
I have a textlabel that needs to change text to the name of object in front of players cursor. The script perfectly prints the object that was raycasted but I can't get it to change text on the label.
local label = game.StarterGui.guistuff.WhatYouLookinAt
local runservice = game:GetService("RunService")
local function MouseRaycast()
local mousePos = uis:GetMouseLocation()
local mouseRay = cam:ViewportPointToRay(mousePos.X, mousePos.Y)
local rayResult = workspace:Raycast(mouseRay.Origin, mouseRay.Direction * 20)
return rayResult
end
runservice.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local result = MouseRaycast()
if result and result.Instance then
local objname = result.Instance.Name
label.Text = objname
end
end)
I believe I made a stupid mistake and I should be executed.
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1 answer
Problem
This is something I seen most people do. First you need to understand what StarterGui is. StarterGui is basically a container for all the GUIs in your game. When a Player joins the Server it will replicate all those GUIs in StarterGui to the Player's PlayerGui where it will be displayed for that player.
So the question is "How do I get the Player's PlayerGui?".
Solution
We can get the Player
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
The PlayerGui is the child of the Player
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local label = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("guistuff"):WaitForChild("WhatYouLookinAt")
I would rather use heartbeat instead of renderstepped.
Fixed code
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local label = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"):WaitForChild("guistuff"):WaitForChild("WhatYouLookinAt")
local runservice = game:GetService("RunService")
local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new() -- RaycastParams I think is short for raycastparameters, pretty self explanatory.
raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.BlackList --Setting filter type to blacklist
raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {player.Character} -- filtering the descendants of the character.
local function MouseRaycast()
local mousePos = uis:GetMouseLocation()
local mouseRay = cam:ViewportPointToRay(mousePos.X, mousePos.Y)
local rayResult = workspace:Raycast(mouseRay.Origin, mouseRay.Direction * 20, raycastParams)
return rayResult
end
runservice.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
local result = MouseRaycast()
if result and result.Instance then
local objname = result.Instance.Name
label.Text = objname
end
end)
If the code doesn't work you can tell me.
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