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How do I get a players username on text by them touching a part?

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7 years ago

So I have a working morph, how do I make it so the text label above it shows the players username that is wearing the morph, and when the username removes when the player leaves the game. Help?

The player's Character has the name. Look through the parts that touched and find it's Parent. Usually the parent will be Character. MooMooThalahlah 421 — 7y

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TheWaterFoox 255

7 years ago

Edited 7 years ago

Here I got something for you that my help... Don't ask me why I spent my time making this. xD I didn't have enought space to make everything look clean at the website, so evereywhere I put "--Here" means you got to bind together the text at the second line. I hope you understand some stuff that is in this thing. :D

01script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(hit)
02    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
03        if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("OverHead") == nil then
04            local player = hit.Parent
05            local brickOverHead = Instance.new("Part", player)
06            local guiOverHead = Instance.new("SurfaceGui", brickOverHead)
07            local nameOverHead = Instance.new("TextBox", guiOverHead)
08 
09            brickOverHead.Name = ("OverHead")
10            brickOverHead.Anchored = true
11            brickOverHead.Transparency = 1
12            brickOverHead.CanCollide = false
13 
14            guiOverHead.Face = ("Front")
15 
16            nameOverHead.Size = UDim2.new(0, 800, 0, 800)
17            nameOverHead.BackgroundTransparency = 1
18            nameOverHead.Text = (player.Name) -- What you want it to say here
19            nameOverHead.Font = ("Cartoon")
20            nameOverHead.TextColor3 = Color3.new(255, 0, 0)
21            nameOverHead.TextSize = 100
22 
23            while true do
24                brickOverHead.CFrame = CFrame.new(player.Torso.Position)
25                brickOverHead.Position =
26                -- Here
27                hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Head").Position
28                -- Here
29                + Vector3.new(0, 3, 0)
30                brickOverHead.Rotation = player.Torso.Rotation
31                wait()
32            end
33 
34 
35            wait(2)
36 
37 
38        else
39 
40        end
41    end
42end)
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My suggestion to you is to go through all the code and figure out what's happening. :D This may help you understand more of the code and more of scripting in roblox.

I went the loooong way and made everything out of a script. The easiest way may be to make the SurfaceGUI with the text label ready and jut clone it into a character. Good luck with scripting!

~ TheWaterFoox

Thank you sooooo much! IPhoneDrew 9 — 7y

No problem. ;D TheWaterFoox 255 — 7y

Answered by

BFIofficer9901 24

7 years ago

To find the player name you can look for the right leg to touch the morph and then use parents and child to get to the group and add .Name to revive the name of the group that is the player.

Code Below Can Get The Name:

1script.Parent.Touched:connect(function(Hit)
2    if Hit.Name == 'RightLeg' then
3        print(Hit.Parent.Name)
4    end
5end

How do I get a players username on text by them touching a part?

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