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How do you make a billboard GUI visible to only specific people?

Asked by

AthenaPerson 2

8 years ago

Edited 8 years ago

I was wondering how to make this script visible to only people/group that I set it to. I've worked on this for like 3 hours now and can't figure it out.

01game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(onPlayerRespawned)
02function onPlayerRespawned(newPlayer)
03    wait(1)
04    if newPlayer.Name == "AthenaPerson" then
05        gui=Instance.new("BillboardGui")
06        gui.Parent=newPlayer.Character.Head
07        gui.Adornee=newPlayer.Character.Head
08        gui.Size=UDim2.new(2,0,2,0)
09        gui.StudsOffset=Vector3.new(0,1,0)
10        gui.AlwaysOnTop=true
11        label=Instance.new("ImageLabel")
12        label.Image="rbxassetid://819434834"
13        label.Size=UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
14        label.Size=UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
15        label.Position=UDim2.new(0,0,-0.5,0)
16        label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
17        label.Parent=gui
18end
19 
20    end
21 
22 
23function onPlayerEntered(newPlayer)
24    newPlayer.Changed:connect(function (property)
25        if (property == "Character") then
26            onPlayerRespawned(newPlayer)
27        end
28    end)
29end
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Answered by

Azarth 3141

8 years ago

Edited 8 years ago

01local players = game:GetService('Players')
02local group_id = 1 -- Group id
03 
04-- Pre-made so the script doesn't have to keep doing it. 
05local gui = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
06    gui.Size = UDim2.new(2,0,2,0)
07    gui.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0,1,0)
08    gui.AlwaysOnTop = true
09local label = Instance.new("ImageLabel")
10    label.Image = "rbxassetid://819434834"
11    label.Size = UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
12    label.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
13    label.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,-0.5,0)
14    label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
15    label.Parent = gui
16 
17 
18 
19-- Names here in a dictionary style table. 
20local players_allowed = {
21    player2 = true;
22    player1 = true;
23    ['spaced name'] = true; 
24 
25}
26 
27local function player_joined(player)
28    player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character)
29        if player:IsInGroup(group_id) or players_allowed[player.Name:lower()] then
30            local gui_clone = gui:Clone()
31            local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
32            -- This is the key part.
33                -- Parent it to the PlayerGui, so that it's only visible to that player
34                -- Adornee it to their head. 
35            gui_clone.Parent = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
36            -- Setting the Adornee RIGHT after it's parented seems to fail after re-loading?
37                -- Delay to fix.  
38            delay(.1, function()
39                gui_clone.Adornee = head
40            end)
41 
42        end
43    end)
44end
45 
46players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
47    player_joined(player)
48end)
49 
50for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
51    player_joined(v)
52end
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Answered by

BlackOrange3343 2676

8 years ago

You can do game.Players.LocalPlayer. Then if the player's name is specifically "Name" then make the GUI Visible. Now what i suggest you doing is to create the GUI first and make sure the GUI is invisible. Then do this code;

1local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
2local GUI = --Where this billboardgui is and specifically the object, (Textlabel, TextButton, etc.)
3 
4if player.Name == "Name" then
5    GUI.Visible = true
6end

Make sure this is a localscript in StarterPlayerScripts

This will make it visible to the LocalPlayer. Therefore no one else can see it.

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How do you make a billboard GUI visible to only specific people?

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