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

Asked May 19, 2017412 views2 answers

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.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(onPlayerRespawned)
function onPlayerRespawned(newPlayer)
	wait(1)
	if newPlayer.Name == "AthenaPerson" then
		gui=Instance.new("BillboardGui")
		gui.Parent=newPlayer.Character.Head
		gui.Adornee=newPlayer.Character.Head
		gui.Size=UDim2.new(2,0,2,0)
		gui.StudsOffset=Vector3.new(0,1,0)
		gui.AlwaysOnTop=true
		label=Instance.new("ImageLabel")
		label.Image="rbxassetid://819434834"
		label.Size=UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
		label.Size=UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
		label.Position=UDim2.new(0,0,-0.5,0)
		label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
		label.Parent=gui
end
		
	end


function onPlayerEntered(newPlayer)
	newPlayer.Changed:connect(function (property)
		if (property == "Character") then
			onPlayerRespawned(newPlayer)
		end
	end)
end

AnonymousMay 19, 2017Edited May 19, 2017

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local players = game:GetService('Players')
local group_id = 1 -- Group id

-- Pre-made so the script doesn't have to keep doing it. 
local gui = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
    gui.Size = UDim2.new(2,0,2,0)
    gui.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0,1,0)
    gui.AlwaysOnTop = true
local label = Instance.new("ImageLabel")
    label.Image = "rbxassetid://819434834"
    label.Size = UDim2.new(0,100,0,100)
    label.Size = UDim2.new(1,0,1,0)
    label.Position = UDim2.new(0,0,-0.5,0)
    label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    label.Parent = gui



-- Names here in a dictionary style table. 
local players_allowed = {
	player2 = true;
	player1 = true;
	['spaced name'] = true;	
	
}

local function player_joined(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character)
		if player:IsInGroup(group_id) or players_allowed[player.Name:lower()] then 
			local gui_clone = gui:Clone()
			local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
			-- This is the key part.
				-- Parent it to the PlayerGui, so that it's only visible to that player
				-- Adornee it to their head. 
			gui_clone.Parent = player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
			-- Setting the Adornee RIGHT after it's parented seems to fail after re-loading?
				-- Delay to fix.  
			delay(.1, function()
				gui_clone.Adornee = head
			end)

		end
	end)
end

players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
	player_joined(player)
end)

for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do 
	player_joined(v)
end

AnonymousMay 19, 2017Edited May 19, 2017Permalink

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;

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local GUI = --Where this billboardgui is and specifically the object, (Textlabel, TextButton, etc.)

if player.Name == "Name" then
	GUI.Visible = true
end

Make sure this is a localscript in StarterPlayerScripts

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

If I helped then please accept answer and upvote.

AnonymousMay 19, 2017Permalink

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