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What is wrong with PlayerGui? [FOUND PROBLEM]
I had attempted to make a Message script that only a Specific player can see, but the Output said 'PlayerGui is not a vaild member of Player', what happened? ;-;
Here is the script;
fucntion oc(msg,time,type,par)
m=Instance.new(type)
m.Parent=par
m.Text=msg
wait(time)
if m~=nil then
m:remove()
end end
oc("Welcome to the game.",4,"Hint",game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui)
-- ANSWER -- I found out what the problem was, FilteringEnabled was keeping me from using PlayerGui. o_e
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Well I am assuming that the function is firing before the PlayerGui is instantiated. So just add
repeat wait() until game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui;
(You mispelled function by the way)
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This is happening because the script is probably running before the PlayerGui is created, so it doesn't exist!
All Objects inherit a WaitForChild method, which waits for a child with the given name. It also returns that child when it is found.
On the last line, replace game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer.PlayerGui with:
GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")