How to display Player's name when touching the ball?
When the player touches the ball, It will display his/her name. I don't know if I should use a local script or a regular script. I did this but it did not work. By the way, the text is a billboardGUI
local BallTarget = game.Workspace.BallTarget
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local PlayersName = game.Workspace.BallTarget.BillboardGui.PlayersName
local BallTarget = game.Workspace.BallTarget
BallTarget.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
BallTarget.PlayersName = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Name").Text
end
end)
1 answer
A few things to note about your code:
• You've already define PlayersName, so just use PlayersName (instead of BallTarget.PlayersName). Also, you should be setting properties like Text like so: PlayersName.Text
• Assuming Name is a property, you only need to do .Name. Also, you don't need .Text after the name. You do need that for setting the text in PlayersName, however.
• You should include a check to see if the player is actually a player. You can do this by using GetPlayerFromCharacter.
• You defined BallTarget twice, you only need to define a variable once. Also, you can reference variables that are previously made in your script when setting other variables (assuming the referenced variable is global or in the same scope.)
• Finally, you should use this in a normal Script in the BallTarget brick/union so that the Touched event works correctly.
Following the advice above, your code should look like this:
local BallTarget = script.Parent --Put this script inside of the ball.
local PlayersName = BallTarget.BillboardGui.PlayersName
BallTarget.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then --Extra check to make sure the player is a player.
PlayersName.Text = hit.Parent.Name --Set the text to the player's name.
end
end)
I hope my answer helped you. If it did, be sure to accept it.