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Why is my simple script for a gui not working?

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Supergamerboy1995 129
8 years ago

So i was just testing something out in studio with a gui, and made a script so that it becomes a countdown intermission gui. In the startergui i have a screengui named "Intermission" and inside the screengui a text label named "Countdown". The text label is set to invisible and the text is set to "Intermission: 30". So then i made this script so that it goes from 30 to 1. When i press run, it works just fine, and when i press play solo it just stays at "Intermission: 30", and when i play in the actual server, it goes to a random number, usually "Intermission: 26" and stays that way. I have no idea why, help?

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01game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Visible = true
02wait(1)
03game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 30"
04wait(1)
05game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 29"
06wait(1)
07game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 28"
08wait(1)
09game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 27"
10wait(1)
11game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 26"
12wait(1)
13game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 25"
14wait(1)
15game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: 24"
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Answered by
TheHospitalDev 1134 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

For an example of what StolidDarkness was speaking about,

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01for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers))) do --Go through the players to enable the GUI
02    v.PlayerGui.Intermission.Countdown.Visible = true
03end
04for i = 30,1,-1 do
05    for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers))) do --Go through the players to change the text.
06        v.PlayerGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: " ..i
07    end
08    wait(1)
09end
10for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers))) do  --Go through the players to disable the GUI
11    v.PlayerGui.Intermission.Countdown.Visible = false
12end

Thanks to FiredDusk for the loop

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Answered by
StoIid 364 Moderation Voter
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago

This is because you are editing the gui that is located in StarterGui. You only get a copy of the gui's you place in StarterGui same goes for StarterPack.

When you change the text of the gui in the StarterGui it is not going to show for you because you do not have a copy of the now edited gui. If you want the edits to show you have to edit the Players gui located in PlayerGui (game.Players.PlayerName.PlayerGui)

To do this all at once and use a single script (the "efficient way" -Pyrondon) you're going to need to use a loop.

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Oh i see now Supergamerboy1995 129 — 8y
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FiredDusk 1466 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

A better way of writing that code is:

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1game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Visible = true
2for i = 30,1,-1 do --Another way of going from 30 to 1 by counting down.
3    game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Text = "Intermission: " ..i --This is what changes the numbers
4    wait(1)
5end
6game.StarterGui.Intermission.Countdown.Visible = false

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