Can I have help for my countdown Gui reach 00:00 please?
Hey guys I want to create a countdown gui and when the countdown is at 00:00, all the players are killed and the countdown restart. Theres the script into the textlabel:
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local minutes = rep:WaitForChild("Minutes")
local seconds = rep:WaitForChild("Seconds")
local text = script.Parent
if seconds.Value <= 9 then
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":0"..tostring(seconds.Value)
else
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":"..tostring(seconds.Value)
end
minutes:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
if seconds.Value <= 9 then
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":0"..tostring(seconds.Value)
else
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":"..tostring(seconds.Value)
end
end)
seconds:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
if seconds.Value <= 9 then
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":0"..tostring(seconds.Value)
else
text.Text = tostring(minutes.Value)..":"..tostring(seconds.Value)
end
end)
and the script in ServerScriptService:
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local minutesvalue = rep:WaitForChild("Minutes")
local secondsvalue = rep:WaitForChild("Seconds")
local minutes = 10 --minutes
local seconds = 0 --seconds
while true do
minutesvalue.Value = minutes
secondsvalue.Value = seconds
repeat
if secondsvalue.Value <= 0 then
minutesvalue.Value = minutesvalue.Value - 1
secondsvalue.Value = 59
else
secondsvalue.Value = secondsvalue.Value - 1
end
wait(1)
until secondsvalue.Value <= 0 and minutesvalue.Value <= 0
players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid.Health = 0
end
Ty in advance and have a nice day!
1 answer
I sincerely recommend for you to just use seconds only and format the number correctly when you have to display it. You can also use the 02d format to automatically add the '0' to single-digit numbers. Also, you can use the .Changed event for value-instances.
For example:
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local seconds = rep:WaitForChild("Seconds") -- Assuming you're using my advice, so you'd only have a "seconds" value
local text = script.Parent
local function formatCountdown(t: number) -- t is the remaining time
local min = string.format("d", math.floor(t / 60 % 60)) -- apparently displays incorrectly on scriptinghelpers.org, the format used here is actually `02d`
local sec = string.format("d", math.floor(t % 60)) -- apparently displays incorrectly on scriptinghelpers.org, the format used here is actually `02d`
return string.format("%s:%s", min, sec))
end
seconds.Changed:Connect(function()
text.Text = formatCountdown(seconds.Value)
end)
Now, to address your actual problem – your only problem is that you're trying to access LocalPlayer from a Server-Script but if you'd like more advice:
I'd never recommend to use while true do, I consider it to simply be bad practice. Instead you could use just repeat in a fashion similar to this:
local rep = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local seconds = rep:WaitForChild("Seconds")
-- Naturally, the `repeat` here would stop the code from further
-- progressing, which means that if we want something to happen
-- after the `repeat` we can simply place it after the actual
-- `repeat` as long as it's in the same scope
repeat
seconds.Value -= 1 -- decrease by one
until seconds.Value <= 0
-- Here we iterate over each player, as a server-script wouldn't have
-- any access to `LocalPlayer`, since that is limited to the client
for _,player in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do
player.Character.Humanoid.Health = 0
end