Player Message Brick?
This question might be considered redundant, but it would help tons if you answer it.
I'm trying to script a brick that instances a message, except I don't want it in the Workspace - I only want the player who touched it to see it.
I already know that type of message has to be inside the Player of the character who touched it, but it never works out. Please help?
SCRIPT:
function onTouched(part)
local h = part.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
local debounce = true
if h~=nil and debounce == true then
debounce = false
local msg = Instance.new("Message")
msg.Text = "Insert some weird message heeere"
msg.Parent = game.Players[h.Parent.Name]
wait(5)
debounce = true
msg:remove()
end
end
script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouched)
If you could help me, thanks!
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Here is something where if you touch it it displays a message, I did not know how to make a message appear via only a player unless you create a Gui to insert into PlayerGui
script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent then
local h = hit.Parent
local debounce = true
if h~=nil and debounce == true then
debounce = false
local msg = Instance.new("Message")
msg.Text = "Insert some weird message heeere"
msg.Parent = game.Workspace
wait(5)
debounce = true
msg:Destroy()
end
end
end)
The message will not be shown when parented inside a Player.
To make a message that only a single player can see, you must put it in their PlayerGui.
There are some other problems, however.
Nothing is tabbed correctly; doesn't effect functionality but readability is arguably even more important.
You define debounce inside the function, so every time the Touched event is fired, debounce will simply equal true, because you set it to true inside the function before anything else.
You should use the second argument of Instance.new to keep you code clean.
Use the GetPlayerFromCharacter method to get the Player from a character. This also makes looking for a humanoid unnecessary, since we can just directly check if the person who touched the brick is a Player.
The remove method simply sets an object's parent to nil, and is deprecated. Use Destroy instead.
Here is my attempt at improving your code;
local debounce = true
function onTouch(part)
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
if plr ~= nil and debounce == true then
debounce = false
local msg = Instance.new("Message", plr:WaitForChild("PlayerGui"))
msg.Text = "Hi"
wait(5)
debounce = true
msg:Destroy()
end
end
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